One True Mate 1: Shifter's Sacrifice by Lisa Ladew

haven’t called them in years. Maybe some policy needs revising?” She turned her head and smiled at Blake, then turned her knowing eyes back on Trevor, dropping the cute act. “Something big is coming.”
    Trevor sighed in relief at her change in attitude. “Why do you say that?”
    Kalista motioned to the building. “He popped into our dimensionality about two blocks that way, went straight into this building, and popped out of our dimensionality shortly after. Plus he was trying to jam us, which he’s never done before. He had this planned, and the purpose of it was not to kill humans. In my opinion, he hasn’t finished coming after shiften yet, and this is part of it.”
    “Jam you?”
    Kalista sighed and rolled her eyes before she explained. “Normally felen can read Khain easily. We can roughly tell where he is even in the Pravus . We don’t know what the Pravus looks like or how it corresponds to our dimension, so roughly, I’d say we can tell if he’s still near Illinois or not. When he pops into our dimension we can hone in on him, figure out exactly where he is, but it takes some doing. We have to move around to feel exactly where the pull is. And we can read him. Not his exact thoughts, but his intent. But this time when he came over he was repelling and jamming us. I felt him immediately, like a constant scream in the night, but I was too far away to tell exactly where he was. Nalan was in the area, and he said that from this close, it felt like he and Khain were two like poles of the magnet that repelled, instead of two unlike poles, like it used to be. Like Khain had been messing with whatever he has inside him that lets us track him.”
    Trevor nodded, then lifted his chin at Blake. “Meet your new like pole.”
    Kalista’s eyes fastened on him and she drew closer to him. “Really? You were attracted to him?”
    Blake blubbered for a moment, staring up at the felen before he managed to speak. “I-I knew where he was yes, and I felt him come here. I could hear him too.”
    Kalista took his arm and purred into his ear. “How fascinating. I really must talk to you more. Figure this mystery out.” She led Blake away but before she had gone more than a few steps she turned back. “Lieutenant?” She nodded at the building. “The explosion? He didn’t do it.”
    Trevor stared hard at the building, the surrounding storefronts, his crew and the patrol officers investigating and cataloguing everything.
    If Khain didn’t cause the explosion, then who did? How? Why?
    Trevor gritted his teeth and felt them ache to grow long, his body itch to shift.
    His wolf wanted out very badly.
     
    ***
     
    Trevor headed back to the station, leaving his brothers and his crew at the scene to finish the investigation. He’d told Mac where to find him and that he wanted a full report the second the investigation was done. He’d told Blake to head to dispatch when he left and review the procedures when any felen called in with a location on Khain, and he’d given Kalista his cell, telling her he wanted a heads up the instant any felen so much as got a hint of Khain being on this side.
    As he drove, he thought about the mysterious female that may or may not have been on the scene. One witness had described her as tall, with dark black hair and paper-white skin. No one else had seen her at all, and the lady who’d been bitten by the fox only screamed when asked about her.
    Trevor fiddled with the buttons on his tactical pants, hoping she hadn’t ended up another pile of ash, or worse yet, been working with Khain. He knew Khain had supporters, but he’d never heard of a human being one of them.
    Trevor pulled up to the station and parked his truck, then headed to an unobtrusive door on the side of the building. He stood in front of the lock and waited for it to read his retina and open, resisting the urge to blink, to pull back, to run screaming through the parking lot. He hated that eye-scanner thing.
    The door