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One of the black cars raced beside us and then ahead. They hit their brakes, forcing us to stop just before the Cadillac. The black smoke cleared up. The woman waltzed up to the car and hopped inside.
“A witch,” Juriah whispered. “Just hang on, little wolf. This will be over soon.”
“What’s the plan?”
He cleared his throat and pitched his voice to sound much older. “Act like you’re an old lady, Macy.”
Knock. Knock.
Percy stood outside Juriah’s window. Rick stood outside of mine. They had both knocked, scaring the absolute daylight out of me. Following Juriah’s lead, I rolled down my window as he rolled down his.
Juriah beamed. “What seems to be the problem?” He laughed lightly and gestured to the Cadillac. “Other than the car, of course.”
“Sir, have you seen these two?”
Percy handed over a grainy security footage picture of Juriah and me. With my tits just hanging out everywhere.
Becauseof course, he chose that picture.
Rolling my eyes would have given me away. I had to lean into my glamor, so I smiled easily at Rick, pointing to the remnants of the tea and pastries. “Young man, would you like a snack?”
Rick shook his head. “No, just answer the question.”
“I’m sure you’d be happier with a snack.” I slowly reached for the brown bag, listening to the jaunty way Juriah spoke to Percy. How was he being so cool right now? “There’s just a little bit left, I’m afraid. My appetite has been wild lately.”
“Ma’am, it’s alright. I’m not hungry.”
I blew a raspberry in disapproval. “Nonsense. You remind me of my grandson. Stubborn and too proud to eat. You have so little on your bones. Just have a bite.”
He gaped at me. “Pardon?”
But I was too busy rooting around in the bag to bother laughing at his expression. If I knew Rick, he’d run back to the compound and obsessively pump weights until he shook off the disparaging remark.
“We were swinging right on through,” Juriah explained. “The kids are raving about this place on the other side of… Honey, what’s it called again?”
Without looking up, I replied, “Beats me.”
“You know, the adventure park?”
“It’s called athemepark, Harold.”
He chuckled. “Silly me. Yes, it’s athemepark. Something the grandkids keep going on about. Something about shifters being good there.”
Rick perked up. “Are you two shifters?”
I scowled at him. “Can’t you use your nose?” I shook my head. “Young people these days just can’t be subtle, can they? They just need to knoweverything.”
Rick looked sheepish for probably the only time I’d ever witnessed in my life.
“Sorry, ma’am,” he said. And when I waved a pastry at him, he waved it off. “No, I don’t want your weird old people food.”
“So rude,” I complained. I tossed the pastry back into the bag. “Back in my day, you accepted a gift from a stranger because it was polite.”
Juriah laughed even louder. Percy smiled but the smile didn’t reach his eyes. By the way his cheeks crinkled up, he was losing his patience.
Good. That meant the ruse was working. We just looked like an old married couple heading to a theme park recommended to us by our grandkids. I was surprised by how in sync I felt with Juriah. We hadn’t discussed much prior to pulling over, and since I had doubted his intentions I hadn’t thought anything would actually go well.
Maybe everything would be okay soon.
