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“We’ll run the evidence we were able to collect and these photos through our database to see if we can identify these three.” She set her tablet down. “Now, the next question is what do we do with you?”
I began breathing through my mouth. “Actually, the next question is, what have you discovered so far? I’d like to know what your investigation has learned in the last two weeks.”
Commander Klebus narrowed her eyes.
I huffed. “Are you still not going to tell me anything? Even after they tried to abduct me a second time?”
She sighed. “I told you, only if it’s directly related to—”
“Yeah, yeah.” I cut her off with a wave. “I get it. You’re not going to tell me shit. Fine.”
She bristled. “Now, as I was saying, we need to discuss where you stay moving forward. Since you’re no longer safe with Mr. King’s pack, the next obvious option is an SF safe house.”
My stomach dropped, because if I shifted tonight under the full moon with Supernatural Forces members surrounding me that would mean . . .
Nausea churned through me. I couldn’t possibly handle witnesses. To see their surprise, disgust, or possibly fear? I would be a total pariah, or worse, they’d want to study me like a lab rat.
I twisted my hands. “I don’t know where . . .” I took another breath. “I mean—”
“She’s staying with me.” Kaillen’s words were clipped.
The commander’s nostrils flared, and she opened her mouth, but Kaillen abruptly stood and pulled me to my feet. “We’re done here. You have what you need. We’ll show ourselves out.”
Before the vampire could utter a response, Kaillen blurred us to the front of the SF office and out the door. Cold autumn wind swirled around us, and the scent of snow lingered in the air.
Within a second, the hunter’s whirling yellow portal waited before us just as the commander barreled through the SF’s front door. “Mr. King!” she barked.
But the hunter already had his arm around me as he sucked me into his portal’s winds. He did it all so quickly. So commandingly.
Fury burned in Commander Klebus’s eyes. It was the last thing I saw as we disappeared, but the anxiety in my stomach lessened. That suffocating feeling of being exposed and judged receded.
My emerging wolf side was still hidden, and the only one who would be witnessing what was to come tonight would be the hunter at my side.