There weren’t enough chairs to seat everyone in the dining room, especially with Lorenzo present for the meeting, but Austin had chosen the quaint room to strategize. Izzy’s responsibility was to keep the children together, and Lynn had volunteered to secure all the windows and doors—doing regular checks. Denver went outside and moved the vehicles, turning them all toward the main road and spacing them apart so we could get out fast if needed. Jericho had shifted so his wolf could guard the property and alert the pack of any intruders.

William stood behind my chair and gripped the back.

“I can offer six of my men,” Lorenzo said. “Keep them along the road and property lines. I’ll assign one to sit by the main road and take note of expensive cars passing through.”

“That’ll work,” Austin said in a low voice. “I appreciate your generosity.”

A strand of long hair swept in front of Lorenzo’s eye when he sat back in his chair. “A human—or any Breed—using Shifters for cage fighting must be brought down. What is to stop him from taking one of our women? One of our children?” he growled.

“I don’t think he has time to raise a child for sport,” Reno said.

Lorenzo leaned forward and narrowed his eyes. “Who said it would be for sport? You mentioned the young man had been locked away to satisfy Delgado’s perverse needs. Consider that.”

A few of the men stirred in their chairs.

Austin tapped his finger on the small leather book. “Naya confiscated this from his office. It’s a book with names, numbers, and some notes. Reno looked through it, and we have a few possible leads we’re going to check out.” He let his gaze slide around the room. “That means splitting up. We have to hit him hard and hit him fast before he has time to move.”

Reno suppressed a burp and pushed away his bottle of imported beer. “Skye’s phone and business cards were a dead end,” he said to me. “Anytime he moved her, she was blindfolded. A few contacts in his book own a lot of land. Not unusual for Breed, but I’m focusing on anyone with property isolated enough to stash some prisoners, although I’m not excluding large homes in the city. We’re not going to find the cage fighters there, but maybe he has a few more pets we can rescue. Chances are Delgado is using someone else to store his goods. Probably profit sharing. That way, if anything goes down, his hands are clean.”

Austin interrupted. “Delgado knows he’s protected in our world, but no human I’ve known about has ever been this brazen and broken so many Breed laws. He’s covering his tracks. There are always exceptions to the rules, so I doubt he wants to put that much faith in our laws protecting him.”

Lexi spun a deck of cards in a circle. “So who’s going? All the men, right?”

He cut her a hard glare. “As it happens, no.”