Wolf's Surrender: Part of the Immortal Ops World (Shadow Agents / PSI-Ops Book 1) Read Free

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    Vic approached. “Bet this stretches into thirty minutes of his tall tales.”
    “For sure,” offered Brad as he sipped from his own canteen.
    “Seems like we were only just here. Hard to believe it’s been a few years now, isn’t it?”
    Brad stiffened at the thought of their active-duty time. There had been a certain thrill to it all—a level of excitement his current area of study lacked in a big way. “Do you miss it?”
    Vic glanced away and nodded.
    Brad tensed. “What do you think PSI will be like?”
    Vic looked around as if worried someone would overhear. Brad wasn’t too concerned. It wasn’t like anyone with them would even know what PSI stood for. Paranormal Security and Intelligence was a government agency he’d only just learned existed. Humans certainly weren’t privy to its presence. Brad was still having a hard time wrapping his head around a clandestine organization consisting of all supernaturals being real , and he was a friggin’ shifter.
    He and Vic had been approached two months before heading to South America by a recruiter for PSI named Vepkhia. Neither of them had been able to believe a supernatural military agency was real. They’d spent so long hiding in plain sight that they’d been blindsided by the truth of it all. Vepkhia had explained PSI in detail and talked them through everything they needed to know to be brought into the fold. They were excited.
    There were many more men and women like them. They were not alone, and it turned out there was a whole policing force dedicated to nothing but the supernatural. It was still surreal. So was the fact that both Brad and Vic had agreed to sign on with PSI. Vepkhia had explained that they’d enter as scientists, able to function as operatives as well. It would be different from their past as SEALs. From what they’d been told they’d be policing supernaturals both locally and abroad. It would be nice to be around others like them and to not have to hide who and what they were.
    A refreshing change of pace.  
    Plus, PSI had been sold to them as being something of a family. A group of men like them. It would be nice to really, truly belong to something and not just pretend. Vic was like a brother to him. They’d grown up together, forming a friendship early on, first out of necessity and then out of loyalty. They’d not been like other children in the foster-care system. And both seemed to have an inborn knowledge that they had to hide the changes they’d started experiencing around the same age they’d first met. A kid didn’t need to be brilliant to know that suddenly being able to change into an animal wasn’t something one should let others find out about.
    Brad still wasn’t sure how he’d gotten so lucky as to cross paths with Vic back then, but he had. They’d stayed close, helped one another through the transitioning period and clawed their way out of poverty together. They’d graduated early and joined up with the military, hoping to find a place they’d fit in—where their alpha urges to protect and kill if need be would be useful, not a liability. They’d gone through boot camp and then later BUD/S training together. And now here they were, working on getting their degrees in a field no one would have ever guessed they’d have an interest in—pharmacognosy. He didn’t exactly look like the type of guy who wanted to study plants or other natural sources in order to create effective medicines, but he was. That was how they’d ended up in South America, yet again, but this time working under the direction of a brilliant but moody professor .
    Professor Krauss had been relatively mild-mannered back at the University, but on this trip he’d been irritable and at times belligerent to Brad and Vic. Neither paid the short, fat man much mind when he started to rant or rave. They could both take him with ease, not that they’d have much of a reason to beat up an old guy. The man was brilliant in his various