章 22: Chapter 22

In late September,after several weeks of being happier than he’d ever been,Derek got a weird feeling.

Mikael’s connection to the Council hadn’t come up with anything new about the mate bond thing they’d been researching.They were continuing the search for any sort of information that would explain why there was a bond between a shifter and a human,but keeping it on the down low was getting hard.

Derek knew how the Council operated,so he wasn’t surprised.He’d been working high up in their security branch once,and he’d been one of the people keeping an eye on different records and protecting secrets to see if anyone tried to access any of them.He didn’t know what was on those databases or in the Vault.Hell,he didn’t even know where the Vault was located,other than somewhere under the city where the Council had made its home for centuries.

So with that itchy feeling,maybe it should not have come as a surprise when one day,Rider and his son Nicolas came calling.