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headed
back to the office.
     
    The afternoon went quickly, I checked the news a few times
but saw nothing about the trafficking, so I assumed the judge wouldn’t give
them warrant from the tip I’d given Aiya.  No doubt they’d be staking the place
out tonight.  I tried to pull knowledge of the future, but with both Mike and
Aiya there… I could only get a vague idea that something would go down.
    It was close to four when an older man came in.  He must
have been seventy if he was a day, and I gestured for him to take a seat.  He
nodded slightly and took the seat, and he seemed lost in thought, so I gave him
a minute to collect himself.
    He said in a respectful tone, “My name is Emil Kaufman.  I’m
hoping you’ll be able to help me find my daughter Margery.”
    I nodded slowly, and he seemed done so I pulled at the
information around him.  He was actually seventy-two, his daughter was still
Margery Kaufman, forty-six, living and partnered with a Stacey Browning, her
long term lover of twenty-five years.  Apparently he’d disowned her for her…
orientation, and had decided in his twilight years to try to reconnect and make
up for what he felt was a short sighted decision.  His daughter was living only
fifteen miles from his house, she’d never left the Chicago area.
    “My rates are five hundred a day, I’ll e-mail you later
today, or call?”
    He nodded and handed me a check, along with a business card,
“Thank you Mr. Edwards,” and saw his way out.
     
    When four-thirty rolled around, I remembered to turn off my
phone and went to pick up Sierra from work.  This time it wasn’t just Carrie in
the room.  Todd, Gerald, Katie, Derik, and Selene were there as well when I
opened the trailer and walked in. 
    Selene and Katie gave me a hug, and Sierra just came to my
side and leaned against me, holding my arm.  I could feel her contentment
through the ally bond, and honestly I felt a lot better about life at that
moment as well.  Having her close by always did.  Whatever changes were coming
in my life, they would be worth it, and I pulled her a little into me and
squeezed her waist.
    Derik said without preamble, “The witch Tara is calling in
her debt, will you take us to meet her and help?”
    I nodded, as I understood it that was part of the ally bond,
I’d help to repay that debt.  I’d have also done it simply because Sierra was
my mate.  It was a strange thought to apply, I’d grown up human and had always
thought of marriage as the bringing together of two people, but I didn’t live
in that world anymore.  That didn’t mean we wouldn’t one day do that, get
married I mean.  The supernatural world was also a lot faster at making those
decisions, her wolf had claimed me, and I was fairly well smitten with her.  I
could also feel a bond growing between us magically, or at least a shadow of
it, in the fire magic anyway, but the earth magic part of it… not so much.
    Derik smiled, “Good, Sierra mentioned you moving in as
well?  The pack would be glad to have you, whenever you can make it happen.  I
was glad to hear it.  We also hear there are few months left on your lease?”
    I nodded slowly, “I’d hoped you would, Sierra may be mine
but she’s also pack, once I realized that, I wouldn’t dream of keeping you
apart.  It may take a little time, but we wouldn’t have to wait out the lease,
it will give me time to get stuff in storage, or sell it, and get the place
cleaned up.  But I don’t have to live there to do all that.”
    Sierra kissed my cheek.
    Derik’s smile got wider, “I’m glad to hear it.  Wolves
finding a non-wolf as a mate is rare, and sometimes it doesn’t work out.  Some
people don’t get over the loss of privacy, or that mating with one of us means
gaining a family that knows everything about each other.  Still, in those cases
we can still work around it, a separate house on pack land is an extreme but
acceptable alternative to the pack, so let me