Chapter 0804

Nina

I hurried into HQ, my heart pounding as I wondered why I had been called here. Enzo's abrupt request had caught me off guard after the serenity of my yoga class, and I was fearing the worst already.

As I burst through the doors into the main communications room, I found him hunched over a monitor with Daphne and Luke peering over their shoulders, all three of their faces drawn with grim concern.

"What's going on?" I demanded, striding over to them. Enzo's head snapped up at the sound of my voice, his soft brown eyes tight with an emotion that immediately read as worry.

"We may have a lead on this mysterious Schreiber business," he said in a low voice. He gestured for Daphne to begin briefing me on the situation.

The petite redhead shifted her weight, tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear. "I've been tracking one of their cargo trucks that left the warehouse a few nights ago," she explained, pulling up a map with a highlighted route on the screen. "It led me here to an old dock on the shoreline."

My brows furrowed as I studied the map. On an island like this, old ports were all over the place, many still in use but many also abandoned for newer ones; but I didn't recognize this one. It was located in a small cove on the east side of the island, a few towns over from Mountainview.

"Okay," I said cautiously, chewing the inside of my lip. "What did you find there?"

"That's the disturbing part," Daphne replied. "From what I could tell, it was like they were receiving... shipments, for lack of a better word." She went silent then, her green eyes flitting nervously back and forth between me, Enzo, and Luke.

"A shipment of what, exactly?" I pressed, an uneasy feeling settling in the pit of my stomach.

Daphne swallowed hard before replying. "Werewolves, Nina. They were offloading werewolves from a boat that arrived in the middle of the night."

it was all I could do to find a

Enzo interjected, his jaw tensed. "According to Daphne's surveillance, the werewolves they were unloading seemed... out of it.

"Drugged," Daphne finished.

at the implications. Kidnapping werewolves to use as pawns or worse, supernatural weapons- was a terrifying prospect, one that made the threat of the Schreibers all the more grave. We had

the stony set of Enzo's features, he had arrived at

managed to snap of the incident and drilling her with questions about

to the few photos and notes pertaining to Daphne's information. "It's not much to go off

not. And we can't rush into this half-cocked," he said, more to himself than to any of us. "We need to keep watching them, try to gather more intel before making

"I've got my scouts all over the island. No one makes a

as far as I know, the Schreibers are completely unaware of my existence,"

stakeout rotation, but Enzo cut me off with a firm shake of his head as

said, voice leaving no room for argument. "I know what you're going to say, and the answer is no. It's too risky putting you out in the field right

as he reached out, taking my hand and giving it a reassuring squeeze. "It's time for you to start fully embracing your role as my Luna-which means delegating the missions, not running headfirst into the

most effective solution, just as it had always been? But as soon as the thought

growing inside me had to be my top priority, no matter how much the fighter in me railed against the

now, I need to take

"Good," Enzo said.

up then, catching first Daphne's eye, then Luke's who had been mostly quiet, clearly thinking deeply, throughout this conversation. "Will you two keep spearheading the surveillance on the Schreibers?" Enzo asked. " Report anything new,

a reassuring

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