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

call or show up for work for a couple of days. Also—oh no.”
    “Also what?” Mitch didn’t like the pause he heard. He had a feeling whatever he heard next wouldn’t be good.
    “It says Tessa called in a murder at a park near her home one night before she disappeared. She said she saw a man ripping a woman’s chest open. The case had been flagged as one of ours, and a cleanup crew was sent to check it out. Tessa was informed that there was no body or blood found at the scene and she must have imagined things since it had been so late at night and she was walking home by herself.”
    “So you’re telling me she watched a rogue kill a woman and she was told that she must have imagined it because she was spooked?” Mitch could feel his fangs dropping and his claws lengthening at the thought of his mate coming into contact with a rogue.
    “Yes, sir,” the detective squeaked.
    “Was the rogue caught? For that matter, why wasn’t Tessa being monitored?” Whenever humans came across a rogue shifter, they were supposed to be watched to make sure they didn’t go telling everyone what they saw. If they did, then they were quickly dealt with. Tessa should have never made it out of the city if she was being monitored.
    “This was all reported to the council, sir. We did everything we were supposed to do on our end. I can tell you this isn’t the first attack we’ve had to deal with. Over the past three months we’ve had to send out containment units for over thirty rogue attacks, and it seems like it’s getting worse every day. It’s getting harder and harder to cover up everything.”
    That stunned Mitch. Why was he just now hearing about this? Even though Chicago was out of his territory, he should have still heard something if they were having that many attacks. Something was going on, and he didn’t like it one bit. “Was Tessa’s rogue ever caught?”
    “There is nothing here to indicate that it was.”
    “Thank you, Detective.” Mitch hung up before the man could respond. He logged onto the secure council website and tried to pull up Tessa’s case file. If she was witness to a rogue attack then she should have had one, but just as Mitch suspected, there was no trace of her. He tried to pull up any case files for the territory that she lived in but was met with the same issue, none existed.
    Mitch sat back, frowning. There should have been at least thirty files according to Detective Reynolds. Anytime a containment unit was sent out, a file was started. It wasn’t closed until the rogue was caught and handled and they were sure the witness wasn’t going to talk. Then and only then were the files closed and only by an enforcer. Still those files were archived, so he should have been able to pull them up. The fact that none existed completely contradicted the detective.
    Someone was covering for a rogue, and he had a feeling it was an enforcer. He didn’t like what he was thinking, but Mitch knew deep down in his gut that he was right. He just had to do a little more research and figure out who to trust with the information once he found it. The situation needed to be handled carefully and quietly. The fact that an enforcer could turn bad would have the whole shifter society in an uproar. Mitch had three enforcers that he trusted with his life, so once he gathered all his information to present to the council, he would bring them in. He had a feeling they would be hunting one of their own very soon.
    He still had to figure out what to do with Tessa. Mitch had a feeling he knew what was going on. Tessa witnessed a rogue killing a woman and reported it. In normal circumstances, she would have been protected until the rogue was caught, but Tessa hadn’t been and the rogue came after her. She had been smart enough to take her son and run, but Mitch knew she wouldn’t have lasted much longer. Hell, the fact that she had made it halfway across the country without being torn apart was a testament to Tessa’s strength. Once rogues locked onto a scent, they didn’t stop until their prey was caught. Tessa was prey at the moment, so all Mitch had to do was sit back and let the rogue come to him. His problem was going to be figuring out how to keep his little mate from running before that could happen.
    There was nothing Mitch could do but wait. He had his mate and cub safely tucked away upstairs with no plans of letting them out of his sight in the near future. In the meantime, he needed to get to