Derek chuckled. "She's hardly likely to attack me in the middle of her workplace," he pointed out. "And it might help if I can get a lock on her scent." It would make following her easier, if nothing else.
"I have never been Team McCall," he said. "I prefer to consider myself Team Derek."
He would work with whoever was necessary to get done what needed to get done. That's why he was friends with Chris Argent. It's why he created his own betas, and got two thirds of them killed.