Chapter 884 Chapter 884
Ena sat in the chair in the corner and tried to follow all the different conversations happening. Aside from the diner, she hadn’t seen this many people together in years. It was a bit overwhelming, but all of these people had come to help free Orson, so she planned to suck it up and do whatever they required of her.
Madison had gone over a few steps they’d take with anyone being rescued. Bandages and checking for dehydration she could handle. She hoped none of them needed an IV because even though she had said she would hook one up, the idea of putting a needle into anyone’s arm turned her stomach. Orson was going to be thrilled to meet all of these people. The fact that they were from so many different clans was going to make him giddy. She didn’t know all of their clans, but trying to guess was something to distract her from looking at the clock every few minutes. Dawn was only a few hours away now and they hadn’t decided if they were going then or waiting for night and the storm that was coming then.
Creed was getting instructions from Luka and Leyton about dropping the distraction. She didn’t understand all of what they said but caught the part where he needed to be at least twenty feet in the air when he did it, or he might be impacted by it. In her opinion, Creed was a very brave man. Leyton patted him on the shoulder, and she wondered how, with his size, he didn’t send him flying across the room. That man had to be some sort of bear shifter. His size and even the way his eyes looked made her ninety-nine percent sure he was. Luka, she wasn’t sure about, but if she had to guess, he was a kind of feline. His hair was sandy blond, and he moved the way a cat would, she thought.
“Morley, can you take third rifle?” Deacon glanced at him. “Walker and Gia are on the first two.”
Morley was part of the clean up team, which at first she didn’t know what they did. Gia had explained that after they got everyone out of Waylon’s he would go in and erase all evidence of what had happened and that any shifters had been there. That was quite the job.
“Do I have to climb a tree?” He smiled.
Deacon glanced at Gia and then shook his head. “No. Gia is going to be in a tree.” Gia smiled at him.
Morley shrugged and got up. “Sure. Just tell me who not to shoot.” He grinned.
“Uh, that would be anyone in this house right now and anyone we rescue.” Cy glanced at him and then looked back at his screen.
“Anything happening there?” Kellen asked from the corner he and his mate were relaxing in.
Cy shook his head. “Pretty quiet. Everyone is probably asleep.”
“We do wake up visit?” Kevan came out of the kitchen with a sandwich in his hand.
Luka and Leyton exchanged a look.
“Anyone object to going in an hour and a half? Fog is going to thick then.” Leyton looked around. “Kash, thoughts?”
The large man named Kash came out of the kitchen with a plate full of sandwiches. “Whatever works for everyone else. Just say go when it’s time.” He went over and sat down on the little sofa, which made it look like a chair because of his size. Ena had been frightened when she had first seen him. His appearance screamed danger, and he was scary to look at. He had short, shaggy black hair. He wore some sort of cloth mask over half of his face. She was pretty sure it was cloth because it moved when he talked. It covered half of his forehead, down across his nose, all the way over to the bottom of his ear. When she’d first looked at her, he had winked and said he had an ugly birth defect. His eyes were dark brown, but she swore when the light hit them, they had red flecks in them. Personality-wise, he was calm and spoke in a quiet, gentle way. She had no idea what clan he was from, and to stay on his good side, she wouldn’t be asking him any personal questions.
“All right, Andi, can you let Raymond and the prince know we’re going a half hour before sunrise.” Leyton grinned. “I’d ask if you can have everything set up by then, but I don’t feel like being stabbed today.”
“No injuries prior to the op,” Madison said with a smile as she went into the kitchen.
Creed came over and sat on the floor underneath the window near the chair she was in. “How are you doing?”
She opened her mouth and then shrugged. “I’m just trying to stay out of the way.”
He nodded. “It can get busy before an op.”
“Do you do this a lot?”
“I was originally recruited to be on the retrieval team—” He glanced around the room. “—when they found the first few locations, but I’ve been promoted since then to helping.”
“We had no idea all of this was happening around us.”
He sighed. “Not many do, at least not until the last year.”
She glanced over to see Foster nodding to something that Deacon was saying. “Foster said there were records.”
“There’s so much information for them to go through,” He grinned. “I’m so glad that’s not my job.” He sobered. “Are you looking for someone?”
She nodded. “I don’t know for sure. There’s just a lot of my clan that left, or we thought they did.”
Foster turned and then came over to them. “I’ll be taking some of them out to get into place shortly.” He held her look for a moment and then turned to look at Creed.
“You should get a list of names to Andi, she’ll look into it,” Creed said quietly and then turned to Foster. “Her clan members that have gone missing.”
Foster stiffened. “Jesse is getting that from your aunt. I thought she would have told you.”
Ena barely remembered what she had discussed with her aunt. Her head had still been spinning because of finding out about Foster. “She must have forgotten.” She smiled. “She was pretty excited about new curtains.”
Foster grinned. “After they rebuild some walls and windows, new curtains would look great.”
She laughed. “I thought that same thing.”
“I’ll ask Jesse to let me know if any of the names are on the lists.”
She held her breath for a moment. Was her mother one of them? “Okay. Thank you.”
Andi came over to her and held out a box.
Ena took it and looked at it.
“Phone and earbuds. All the numbers you’ll ever need are in there.” She glanced at Foster. “I added in the phones you gave her clan.”
“Thanks, Andi.” Foster watched her go back to the table and then looked at the box in her hand.
“Ena, Madison has some clothes you can change into.” Gia came over. “You’re close to the same size.” She smiled and then looked at the box in her hand. “I can show you how to work that if you want.”
Ena nodded. “Yes.” She stood up, and Foster put his hand on her arm.
“Are you okay?”
She wanted to lean her head on his chest and just breathe for a moment, but she didn’t want to do anything to slow down their plans. “I’ll be fine.” His eyes searched her face, and then he nodded. She glanced at Creed. “Be careful.” She looked back at Foster. “You too.” She hurried after Gia before she hugged him. Her coyote was quiet, so she was pretty sure that feeling came from her and not her animal. Going up the stairs, she thought of Orson.
Hold on. We’re coming to get you.