Hacker “How can three people just disappear, Jude?” Wendy asks me. Now, when it’s just us on a call or we’re together, we use our real names. I love hearing her say my name. “Usually, when it’s shifters, they disappear in the human world. However, I’m beginning to wonder if these three haven’t found a vacant pack somewhere to hole up in,” I say. It isn’t just the two of us who are frustrated. Tracker and Hijack are frustrated too. Wendy is right. These three seem to have disappeared into thin air. When I talked to Hijack and Tracker earlier, we all agreed that they have to be someplace without technology. That’s where the idea of a vacant pack came from. There are several of them around, packs that had no one to take them over. With two Alphas, they would be able to find food easily, bu

