Page 15 of Wolf Bound

Not long after they left, Tanner and his mate, Serena, came to see Fisher.

Tanner said, “The FBI agents want to talk to you. We’ve put them off for as long as we could.”

“What do I say?” Fisher wasn’t sure how to deal with this since he knew the shifters had to capture the men, not the human law enforcement officials.

“Describe them just like you saw them. Kira and Billy did already so there’s no sense in saying anything differently,” Tanner said. “Though if you did describe them differently, I’m sure they would understand because of all the pain and suffering you had gone through.”

“Okay.”

“About Kira,” Tanner said.

“What about Kira?” Fisher hadn’t meant to sound so annoyed. He so wanted to be with her on her mission.

“I spoke with Vaughn about her.”

“Vaughn?” Fisher’s brother totally lost him with the comment.

“Yeah, you know, because he works with her. So he told me that as a young girl, she was kidnapped, so a case like this has to be hard for her. It probably brings back bad memories.”

“Oh.” Fisher couldn’t believe she had been kidnapped herself when she was young. That had to have been traumatic for her.

“Yeah. She’s new to the USF and they do a thorough background check to make sure that the person hasn’t had issues that would cause them to have trouble on the job. She shared her story with the rest of her USF agents so they knew where she was coming from if she ended up having any problems with it.”

“Hell.” Fisher was surprised her boss had even given her this assignment then.

“I just thought if you ended up working with her on this case you should know about her past even though she might tell you about it herself. Just keep an eye out if you’re working with her and she’s battling PTSD over it.”

“Sure, thanks, Tanner.”

“Yeah, no problem.” Then Tanner smiled. “Serena and I went over to Devlyn and Bella’s home to have breakfast, and Kira wanted to come here to see you right away.”

“Probably because she had to get on the road to find these guys. I guess you’re going too.” Fisher hated sounding so down about the whole business.

“Nope. Some of the guys are staying here to watch your back.”

Fisher was surprised to hear that. “Why? You don’t think the kidnappers would try and locate me to eliminate me as a witness, do you? The boy already knows what they look like also.”

“Yeah, we do. The boy is being guarded around the clock also. So Devlyn has already set up a schedule for those of us who want to guard you to do so.”

“Even when I go home?”

“Especially when you go home.”

“What about Kira?”

“Devlyn is making sure she’s going to be watched too, just in case the kidnappers learn the two of you survived and go after you to get rid of loose ends. I think they figure the kids they take for ransom are so traumatized, they don’t remember what the men look like. Maybe also that adults don’t believe their recollections as well either.”

Fisher appreciated that his family and the wolf pack were looking out for him.

Then two FBI agents walked into the room to speak with him. Fisher was ready for them, telling them his human version of the events—hiking, hearing the boy in distress wanting to go home to his parents, and then Fisher being seen, running to avoid getting shot, but reaching the edge of the cliff. Since he’d had no time to run anywhere else, he was shot and fell off the cliff. “Purposefully,” Fisher added.

Tanner and Serena frowned at him. The agents exchanged glances.

“I couldn’t have outrun a bullet at that point and once I was hit, I fell, figuring I might survive. If I’d dropped to the ground at the edge of the cliff, the shooter would have shot me until he was sure I was dead.” Fisher knew that for certain.

“But he shot at you when you were down on the ledge also,” one of the agents said.

“Yeah, when they realized Kira had arrived to take care of me. It was the black-haired guy that time and he shot at both of us, but she had moved me under a kind of shelf before that and stayed with me there until she felt they had left the area.”

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