Chasing a Wolf: Moonbound Series, Book Four by Krystal Shannan, Camryn Rhys Page A

going on?” Maggie crossed her arms. “You could have prepared me for this one.”
    “Lani’s mother was one of the girls...” Tomás lowered his voice, “from the brothel, I think.”
    “What the hell?” Alex rubbed his jaw. “Up in the mountain tribes?”
    “Tomás said he would help me find her.” Lani stepped toward Maggie. “He said you would help me find her. But now he tries to take me away from here, when I can feel that she is here.”
    “But there’s a wrinkle.” He smiled at a big blue-coated bellhop who passed them and stopped until the man was out of earshot. “Adrian must have her mother, or she wouldn’t be here, when she was trying to run from him. So he must’ve caught her, which likely means he’s holding her here hoping that Lani will come looking for him.”
    “Why would he do that?” Maggie asked.
    But Tomás saw the truth land on Alex’s face. The Miami wolf cursed below his breath and gazed at Lani with glassy eyes. “She’s his daughter.” He poked Maggie with his elbow. “See the features. She’s Marco’s sister.”
    Lani pointed back at the elevators. “I felt her the strongest when I was in that place with the tiny moving rooms.”
    “She doesn’t know what an elevator is?” Maggie’s brow arched. “Really?”
    “She was raised by the Huichol, up in the mountains.” Tomás rubbed Lani’s bare arm, feeling a chill run across her skin. “She probably doesn’t know any of this.”
    Maggie slung the pack off her back and dug through it. She pulled out a tablet and swiped a few times. “If I know hotel owners, then I’m going to guess that he probably has her in a highly secured area, which means penthouse level.” She kept swiping. “The elevators are floor-specific and key-card operated. Only certain elevators can get to the penthouse level, and they’re all accessed from here, or the parking garage level.”
    Zolin walked around the circle and stood behind Maggie, looking over her shoulder. When she sensed him, she turned her head and Tomás could almost see her hackles rising.
    “Do you mind?” The bite in her tone would have felled a lesser man.
    “I never mind.” Zolin crossed his arms. “I want to know what you are doing.”
    She grunted, like that was the stupidest question ever. “Getting us into the penthouses, genius.”
    “Take it easy on him, Mag,” Tomás whispered, avoiding the Huichol’s gaze. He wouldn’t like the interference, but they didn’t have time for fifty shades of angry flirting. They needed a plan, so Tomás could get Lani far away from this place.
    “I’ve been working in the car on hacking the system.” Maggie turned the pad so Tomás could see it. The screen had a square on it that looked like a QR code, all different sized blocks of black that formed an intricate, scan-able pattern.
    “I can’t actually make a card. But if the reader operates the way I think it should, I can at least get us into the elevator.” She nodded at Lani. “Can she find her mom from there?”
    Lani perked up. A shard of hope cascaded through her and it was the first time Tomás had felt any peace from her since they’d entered Choaca.
    He let out a long breath through his nose. “Fine. But understand me. The first whiff we get of Adrian Rossi, and I’m pulling her out of there.”
    “Fine.” Maggie took off for the elevator bank.
    Tomás slipped his hand into Lani’s cold one and pulled her along behind Alex. If they were lucky, Adrian was out in the city somewhere and they could bust out Lani’s mom before he returned.
    He didn’t want to imagine what would happen if they weren’t…lucky.

Chapter Nine
    C itlani followed Tomás and the spritely female toward the tiny moving rooms—elevators. Zolin and Tomás pushed her into the back corner and stood in front of her. She peered between them and watched the tiny woman with a brightly lit device in her hand fiddle with something on the wall of the room. A couple of strangers