Chapter 16 Thankfully, Dakota missed my whispered realization. And shortly thereafter Cindy rustled up the cranberry-apple crumble I requested as Shepard-bait despite the fact she’d likely never served anything nearly so unimpressive before in her life. Which meant it was time to do Dakota’s bidding...while hugging the males’ incendiary secret close to my chest. Unfortunately, Dakota quickly picked up on the fact that I was holding something back. “This isn’t a game,” my employer warned while steering her vehicle down familiar oak-lined avenues and into the secluded lot just west of the college’s wooded flank. “SHRITA is the biggest threat facing werewolf-kind in this century. There’s no room for mistakes in getting those agents off our backs. You need to be here one hundred percent.”