“But they won’t know what it looks like.”
“I think you’ve described it well enough.”
Saxon clamped his mouth shut against the snort of laughter he almost released. One thing he’d learned since Ronan and Kadence became mates wasnotto interfere in their relationship. Ronan was usually pretty in control, but anything having to do with Kadence could push him to a breaking point.
“I have not,” Kadence said.
“Someoneelsewill find it,” Ronan insisted. “Besides, the baby is going to be here soon, and you don’t want to miss it, do you?”
Low blow, but Saxon had to admire Ronan’s use of the baby to derail her. They would have fought over this for hours, and Saxon could see it resulting in them being sent out to find this cottage without Kadence’s knowledge. Ronan would have paid dearly for it, and Saxon would have preferred to be locked in a room while someone blasted disco for twenty-four hours than be in Ronan’s shoes, but Ronan would have sent them.
“The baby,” Kadence murmured as she turned to Vicky and her brother. “I could probably find it in a couple of days.”
“Don’t worry,” Declan said. “We’ll find it. Won’t we, Lucien?”
Lucien rolled his eyes. “Yeah, it should be easy to locate a cabin in the mountains.”
“It won’t be any problem at all,” Saxon lied.
“We’ll come with you,” Asher said and waved a hand at Logan who nodded.
“Be careful. I didn’t see anything bad there, but….” Kadence shrugged as she held up her hands in a helpless gesture. “But I don’t know what’s there.”
“We’ll be fine,” Saxon assured her
And now, sitting in the middle of nowhere, he wished he was sleeping in his bed or preferably someone else’s. He hated the cold, and this place looked as inviting as Antarctica.
Chapter Two
“How many cabinswith farmers porches do you think there are in this town?” Lucien asked.
“More than I care to know about,” Logan said.
“We’ll find out later,” Declan said.
Asher folded the map and tucked it away. “Maybe we should have agreed to more help.”
“No,” Saxon said. Ronan and Killean had offered to come too, but they needed them at the compound. “Until we know if we have a mole, we can’t afford to have too many fighters away from the compound. There are too many women and children there to risk it.”
“Especially since this could be nothing more than a wild goose chase,” Lucien said.
“Doubtful,” Logan murmured.
Saxon agreed; he didn’t know what drew Kadence here, but it had to be something significant.
“It’s been over six months since Joseph died; don’t you think if there were a mole amongst us, his followers would have found and attacked us by now?” Asher asked.
“There’s a reason the Savages kept finding Killean,” Saxon murmured, but he agreed with Asher.
After Joseph’s death, Saxon assumed his followers would scatter and become disorganized, but that hadn’t been the case. Whenever they encountered Savages, the bastards were still grouped together and lethal in a way they hadn’t been before Joseph started organizing them.
Which meant someone else was pulling the strings now, and Saxon suspected there had always been a more significant player behind the scenes. Maybe that player was the strange being Killean encountered when he infiltrated Joseph’s camp to get Simone back.
He said he suspected it was an ancient-turned-hunter because of the creature’s eye color, but the hunter elders had spent months pouring through their history in search of such a thing and come up with nothing. However, that didn’t mean a turned hunter hadn’t happened before Kadence; it might not have been documented, and an ancient-turned-hunter who became a Savage would be a powerful enemy.
“Once we know the location of all the cabins, we should split up and go to them,” Lucien said. “It will go faster that way.”
“Are we all going to walk?” Logan asked.
