Page 45 of Wolf Bound

“I’m fine,” Fisher said. “I just overdid it a little on running and swimming as a wolf. Other than that, I’m good. So we haven’t heard back from the other team?”

“Not yet. But three ATVs went out in their direction to try and locate them,” Everett said.

“Either the one guy left his companions behind, or he eventually picked him up,” Kira said.

“Some of the other guys are staying at the building, just in case they show up there to pick up their backpacks.”

“Good. Maybe we’ll still catch all of them,” Kira said.

Then Kate said, “Okay, Fisher. No swimming, no running as a wolf for a week. Do you need anything for the pain?”

“No. I’m good.”

Kate glanced at Kira as if she was his keeper. Kira nodded. Kira helped Fisher pull on his shirt as they heard a grumbling kidnapper walking past the exam room, his wrists cuffed, his arm bandaged.

“I told you I was just running as a wolf. I didn’t know it was anyone’s private property. You’re cougars. You should know how it feels to need to run in our wild animal form,” the kidnapper groused.

“You were carrying a weapon, shooting at us when we apprehended you,” Dan said. “There’s only one reason you would pull out a gun.”

Kira, Fisher, and Everett quickly joined him.

“Hell, yeah, to protect myself.”

“We’re going to the jailhouse,” Dan said.

When they finally arrived at the jailhouse in three separate cars, a pretty, dark-haired woman named Bridget introduced herself and was waiting for them inside. She smiled at them, her blue-gray eyes warm and welcoming.

Dan took the kidnapper into the interrogation room and then Kira, Bridget, and Demetria went into the room to question him, while the others watched through the viewing window.

“What’s your name?” Kira asked, sitting across the table from the kidnapper. Demetria joined her, but Bridget stood on the prisoner’s side of the table behind him.

“Royce Barmonger.”

Bridget shook her head.

Kira raised her brows. How did Bridget know for sure?

“How come you bit me?” the kidnapper asked.

“To get you to follow the sheriff’s instructions. What’s your name?”

He sat back in his chair, frowning. “I told you.”

“You didn’t give us your real name. Who are the other guys you were with?”

He said, “I get a right to an attorney, and I don’t have to say anything that might be used in a court of law against me.”

Kira looked at Bridget, wondering how they handled situations like this.

“He can have a right to an attorney. Larry Pierce is the only one we have here, and you can call him now.” Bridget handed him the landline phone and the phone number.

Kira didn’t like this change of plan. She figured the guy wouldn’t talk and then they wouldn’t get anywhere with this.

The kidnapper said, “This is Royce Bergermon and I need a lawyer to represent me. Yes, I’m in the Yuma Town jail. I need him now. Alright.” Then he handed the phone back to Bridget. “His law clerk, Stella Weekum, said Mr. Pierce would be here in half an hour.”

Kira raised her brows. First, he said he was Barmonger and now Bergermon?

“Good.” Bridget said to Kira and Demetria, “We’ll move him to the cell and then I’ll talk with you for a moment.”

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