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“Thardid Jimbo,” Kris said. “Was it you?”
“No.”
Kris lifted a brow. “You think I’ll just believe that and put away the gun?”
“Ye have not been much for the truth so far,” Liam agreed.
“Did I do a lot of shape-shifting when we were kids?” Marty asked.
“Just because you didn’t shift then doesn’t mean you aren’t doing it now. You could have been…” She paused, remembering what Edward had told her. “Injected. Cursed. Bitten.”
Dear God, had she really said that?
“Got anything silver?” Marty asked.
Kris glanced into the drawer. A box of bullets, but she didn’t want to put the gun down to open it. Instead, she pulled the Celtic cross from beneath her shirt and tossed it.
Marty snatched the icon out of the air with one hand. He didn’t catch fire. For an instant Kris was relieved, until she recalled something else the old man had said.
“Not all shifters react to silver. Sometimes it only pisses them off.”
“You’re right.” Marty threw the cross back, and Kris looped the chain over her head. “Now what?”
Kris had no idea.
“Listen, Squirt, I’m not a supernatural.”
“Then how do ye know so much about them?” Liam asked.
“I hunt them.”
Kris frowned. If Marty was a Jäger-Sucher, wouldn’t Edward have mentioned that?”
Liam snorted. “Sure ye do. And that’s why Interpol had a file on ye.”
“Personnel file,” Marty said.
“You work for Interpol?” Kris was almost as surprised by that as she’d been by Marty showing up here in the first place.
Marty reached for his pocket, and Kris lifted the gun. “My ID.” Slowly he pulled it out and threw it to her.
Sure enough. He was with Interpol. Kris set the gun back in the drawer, but she left the drawer open and her hand lingered nearby.
“Why didn’t they just tell us you worked for them?” Liam asked.
“I’m kind of a secret…” He rolled his hand as if searching for a word. “Consultant.”
“Why secret?” Kris asked.
“Investigating the paranormal.” He shrugged. “They don’t like to admit it exists.”
Neither did Kris.
“How did you end up doing that?”
“Remember all the fairy tales Mom used to read to us?”
“Yeah,” Kris said slowly, not sure where he was going or if she wanted to go there.
