Mine for Eternity [Council Enforcers] (Siren Publishing Classic)

the meantime, he needed to make a few calls. With one last look at his mate and cub, Mitch headed to his office. After what Tessa told him and the reports he had read the night before, there was no doubt in his mind they were dealing with a rogue. That was an easy problem to fix. All Mitch had to do was wait for the rogue to track Tessa to his home and then take him out, problem solved.
    What Mitch was going to have a hard time with was figuring out how deep the rogue problem ran and if there was a deeper conspiracy going on. His gut told him yes. Something wasn’t right, and he needed to look into it before the problem got worse and they were all exposed to the world. He was going to need help, so he called the only three enforcers he trusted with his life on a secure line. Once he had them all conference in, he began.
    “Okay, Ben, Ryan, Ken, first off thanks for taking my call. I’ll start off by saying that what I’m about to tell you stays between the four of us until we can figure out what’s going on.” After a chorus of agreements, he continued, “This involves my mate—”
    Mitch was cut off when all three guys congratulated him. Once they had finished, he explained what happened to Tessa and how she had come to be in his home. He then explained all the evidence he pulled up about numerous rogue incidents that went unreported to the council. Once he had hung up from the detective last night, Mitch had called a few other contacts all over the country, and the information he gathered had been shocking. Chicago hadn’t been the only city with increased rogue attacks. They were happening all over the country, and somehow, the reports were slipping through the cracks. One or two attacks could have been written off, but hundreds in such a widespread area was dangerous to all their kind.
    Rogues were shifters that had let their animal side take over and had gone feral. There was very little human left in them, turning them into the predators they had lurking inside of them. There was no reasoning with a shifter that had turned rogue, and it was Mitch’s job as an enforcer to track them and put them down. It sounded brutal, but it was for the good of their race. Rogues were killing machines, not caring of the disasters they left in their wake, and they threatened exposure for their kind. Mitch’s job was to keep that from happening. Now, it seemed shifters were going rogue all over the country and nothing was being done about it.
    When he was finished explaining the purpose of his call, there was complete silence on the line. He didn’t have to explain how serious the situation was. Kenneth, Benjamin, and Ryan all understood that. “If it’s possible, I need you guys to come here so we can figure out how to approach the council with this information. I have a feeling someone on the council or an enforcer is involved, so we need to figure out who we can trust.”
    After getting their agreement, Mitch hung up and sighed. He pinched the bridge of his nose trying to fight off a tension headache. It was rare that shifters got sick, but for him personally, the headaches seemed to come with the stress of the job. It was the reason he lived in seclusion and not part of a pride. He had tried once, but Mitch had enough to deal with. He didn’t need to add the stress of all the available females and their literal cat fights over him. It seemed that while he was a feared enforcer, in the eyes of the females in his former pride, he was a wild lion that they thought they could tame.
    Mitch snorted. As if anyone thought they could tame his mighty beast. Not true, I would happily roll over and purr for our mate. His lion spoke, and his purr filled Mitch’s head. He had to adjust himself as his lion sent him images of exactly what Tessa could do to make him purr.
    Mitch laughed. “I have a feeling she could turn you into a house cat and you would be happy.”
    His lion scoffed. Please, have you seen me? There is no way our mate can mistake me for one of those puny, little things. She has already seen my mighty mane, and she even groomed yours herself. She’s already in love with us.
    Mitch couldn’t help but laugh at his lion. He didn’t think he had ever met anyone more arrogant. If only it were that easy to make Tessa love them. He had a feeling it was going to be damn near impossible considering what she had already been through. She was already running from one of his kind. He was scared to tell her what he