Page 28 of The Enforcers: NOAH

Chapter 9

Noah paced his room, trying to figure out what the hell to do about Mina Reston and her son.

He knew what he was supposed to do. Tell the Wolf Council he suspected there was a shifter cub with human parents who didn’t know what he was.

There was only one problem with that. If Brock was a shifter, they’d take him away from Mina.

He couldn’t fucking do that to her. Not after everything she’d been through. Not the way she loved her son.

But Brock needed to be raised with a pack, to be around other wolves and learn how to control his animal so it wouldn’t drive him psycho. Even if Mina could accept what Brock was—and the Council was satisfied she wouldn’t out shifters to the public—she couldn’t raise him on her own.

Best case, she’d have to cut ties with everyone she knew and join a pack. Female wolves were rarer than males—even a human woman who’d proved she could bear cubs was valuable. She could be pressured—possibly even forced—to mate with whichever unmated male in the pack was strongest, and give him cubs.

Not fucking going to happen. Just the thought made him want to rip that imaginary wolf to bloody shreds and feast on his bones.

There was only one thing to do. If Brock was a shifter, Noah would have to convince Mina to take him as a mate, let him protect them and provide for them. Maybe he could convince the Silverlake pack to take them in. Their alpha had a human mate, so Mina should be safe and welcome there.

The question was, would Mina accept him? She’d already been stuck in one marriage where she didn’t love the guy. Doing it again was probably dead last on her bucket list.

Okay then. He’d just have to make her fall in love with him. She already thought he was hot. That was a start.

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TO DO LIST:

Ask Donnie to fix Mina’s truck

Get Donnie a bottle of Jack so he’ll do it for free

Dinner reservation

Get Mina flowers

Laundry

Polish cowboy boots

Find out if Brock is a shifter

Scout Asshole’s place

Catch Asshole doing something illegal and get him arrested

Catch Asshole alone in the woods and make him disappear (if an Asshole falls in the forest and no one hears him scream, is it still illegal to bite his jugular? Probably. Fuck.)

Get info from Drake – Alaska wolves??

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By Saturday, Noah was wound up tighter than an IRS agent’s ass.

He wanted to see Mina so bad.

He’d talked to her every day on the phone, and just hearing that husky voice made him imagine things that usually ended in a shower session with the slippery lotion and Mr. Hand.

In between showers, he alternated between hopeful and terrified. Hopeful that maybe he could do something good for Mina. Terrified she wouldn’t be able to love him. Hopeful that her asshole ex would be caught in his own bear trap and eaten by rogue shifters. Terrified that Brock would shift somewhere public before Noah found a safe place for them, and they’d all be fucked to hell.

Terrified that Robbie Wells and his cronies had suspected all along Brock was a shifter, and had something really, really bad planned when they found out for sure. The reasons somebody might want to get their hands on a baby shifter made Noah’s stomach turn.

Selina Douglass, the woman who’d mind-fucked him, had been working with a clandestine group who kidnapped shifters, genetically altered them, and tried to turn them into supersoldiers and other assorted freaks.

They’d never caught them all.

And Alexander Grant, psycho billionaire, who was currently awaiting trial for human trafficking, had also been trafficking in shifters. Selling some and letting his sick scientist buddy experiment on the rest, torturing and brainwashing them to see if they could be trained to shift and attack on command, or be used as display pieces or sex toys by wealthy “collectors.”

That would only happen to Brock over Noah’s dead body, and even then he’d claw his way out of the grave and finish whoever tried it. But he had to make sure it didn’t come to that.

He had to get Mina to fall in love with him. Because he was already gone.