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“Pretty much.”
“Call a tow truck,” Teo said.
Jase turned a withering glare his way. “I would, if the phones weren’t out.”
“We used the phone last night.”
“And then something ate the satellite dish.”
“Frick,” Gina muttered. That took care of the Internet, too.
Teo, Derek, and Tim pulled cell phones from their pockets. Gina held her breath. Together they frowned, shook the things, pressed buttons, then sighed and put them away.
“There’s no way the werewolves could have eaten your cellular service,” she said.
“No,” Derek agreed. “It’s not an eatable thing.”
Gina glanced at Teo with lifted brows. How could all the cell phones be out? He wiggled his fingers like a sorcerer.
Duh. The Nahual had enough juice to bite without teeth and begin a new werewolf army. Knocking out cell service had to be a cinch.
“We’re stuck here?” Melda started to hyperventilate. “With those…”
Gina moved forward, but Jase crooked a finger, then jerked his head to indicate she should join him outside. She hoped he had a clue what to do, because she didn’t.
Teo moved to follow, and she set her hand on his arm. “Would you help in here, please?”
Without a word, he went to the old woman, murmuring softly and herding her, along with the Gordons, away from both the door and the smoking wolf.
That was going to be a bitch to get out of the carpet.
As Gina left the house she marveled again at Teo. Anything she wanted or needed, anything she asked, and he was there. Was that kind of support what had held her parents together? What had kept Mel and Melda a pair for so long? Gina wasn’t sure, but she thought so.
Being able to know with absolute certainty that there was someone on this earth who had your back, no matter what, went a long way toward fostering absolute trust and devotion.
“What are we going to do?” she asked when Jase paused just out of earshot of the others. “We can’t walk to town. We’d never make it by sundown, which might just be what they’re after.”
“Gina,” Jase said softly. “We have horses.”
She blinked, then laughed, putting her hand over her mouth when she heard the slightly hysterical quiver beneath.
There was too much going on. She couldn’t keep track of it all. She was becoming focused on one solution, and when it blew up in her face she wasn’t able to see any of the others through the smoke.
Of course they had horses.
Gina dropped her hands. “What would I do without you, Jase?”
“I promise you’ll never have to find out.”
He sounded just like the old Jase, and then again he didn’t. The old Jase would never have said anything so sappy. Of course the old Jase had always been her friend, with not a hint of anything more.
But the new Jase, the one who’d kissed her—still uck by the way—would not have said that, either, because she couldn’t see him staying on and watching her and Teo together.
And they would be together. She could no longer imagine a life with the two of them apart.
What a mess. However, it was a mess she would deal with later.
If they survived.
