Chapter 6
Find him. Help him, my inner wolf demanded. Unfortunately, Derek had sidestepped my questions just as ably as he’d evaded the agents’ approach, so I had no idea where to begin hunting this time around. Meanwhile, I didn’t particularly want to wake my human partner and fall prey to questions I’d once again have to evade. So I fell back on the one task that never let me down. When in doubt—I bake.
To that end, I slipped past the slumbering professor and into a hallway that appeared both narrower and dustier than when I’d visited the Alphas’ Pinnacle as a child. If memory served, the center of culinary operations was down this corridor, past the rooms where part-time staff resided during annual gatherings, then through the secret door that looked like just another section of wall.
