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Silver to the heart. According to the legends, a surefire way to kill a werewolf.
Or in this case, a hybrid wolf shifter.
Slowly, Erin stalked over to the judge. The gun was a solid weight in her hand as she gazed down at his face. Dee was right. The judge wouldn’t be getting up from that one.
Over.
The wailing sirens were so loud now, screaming in her ears. Doors slammed nearby. Footsteps thudded. Voices rose. Men, women. One was louder, angrier than the others. “All right, get the hell out of my way! Jude! Dee!”
Zane was there.
Erin dropped the gun. She spun around. “My mother!” Theresa’s eyes were closed, and she’d sagged back against the ground. Tear tracks stained her cheeks. Had she seen Erin kill Harper? “Mother!”
Two men in blue EMT uniforms raced toward Theresa.
“Easy...” Antonio appeared before Erin. He grabbed her shoulders and held her steady. “I need an EMT over here, now! She’s got severe injuries and blood loss!”
“I’m already healing,” she whispered. “But you have to understand, my mother’s not human.”
A quick nod. “Samuels!” A female EMT scrambled from the back of an ambulance. “Take care of the female victim!” He jerked his thumb toward Erin’s mother. “Then, Barlow, come over here and see about this bastard.” His hand sliced toward Harper.
One of the male EMTs left her mother’s side and hurried to the body.
“Not much they can do for him,” Jude muttered.
“Ah,hell!” Antonio closed his eyes. “Clothes! Man, I’m so tired of seeing your naked ass!”
“Yo!” Zane tossed a pair of jeans toward Jude, then his gaze snapped to Dee. “Woman, what the hell happened to you?” Worry thickened his voice.
A wan smile curved Dee’s lips. “Wolf tried to play with me.”
“Huh.”
“Nothing I can do for him,” Barlow said, rising. “He’s gone.”
To hell, she hoped.
Dee’s right shoulder lifted, then fell. “He didn’t know I like to keep silver bullets handy.”
“And wooden stakes in your bag,” Zane added.
The ambulance’s siren wailed on. They were loading Theresa into the back. “I-I need to go with her.”
“You can’t.” Antonio’s face was grim. “I’ve got at least half a dozen cops who just saw you shoot that bastard—and I’m real damn glad he was in human form at the time.” Yes, an after-death shift would have been a hard one to explain. “You can’t leave the scene, not yet.”
Samuels climbed in after her mother’s gurney, and the EMT yanked the doors closed.
“She’ll be okay,” Antonio assured her. “Samuels has a lot of experience with your kind.”
Your kind.Erin licked her lips and managed a nod.
“We’ve got to do this by the book.” His voice barely floated in the air. “There are too many eyes here. Watch what you say, Jerome.”
She would.
The ambulance pulled away. The swirling lights vanished into the darkness.
Not the same as before.
