Soren got me into Marcus's records on a Wednesday.
He did it the way only someone who had been inside the pack's inner operations for years could do it. Not by breaking anything. Not by leaving any trail that looked like what it was. He used the natural cover of a routine security audit that Damon had approved three weeks earlier and that Marcus had signed off on without concern because he had written most of the audit parameters himself and believed they covered him completely.
They did not cover the thing Soren found on the third page of the financial records.
He brought it to me that evening at the healer practice after everyone else had gone. He put the copied pages on the table between us and sat back and let me read without talking.
I read slowly.
The pack security fund had been
