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The door is not locked.
“What is this?” Scratch asks.
“It is the meat store,” I tell him. “In the human world there are people designated to killing animals and others who deal with preparing meat for consumption, so that most humans never have to hunt like we have had to.”
“That is … interesting,” he says.
I walk over to the first refrigeration unit and open the door. There are many packets inside of different cuts of meat, all of which are labelled as beef.
“This is meat cut from a cow. I believe you will enjoy it.” I take several packets out of the freezer.
“So, we do not have to kill anything ourselves in order to have a meal,” he muses. “I think I will like living like these other shifters.”
“You were always less enthusiastic than Snake and Fox on a hunt.”
He gives me a wry smile. “They were always overly enthusiastic, you mean.”
“It is all the same.” I nod at the door. “Let us move along so we can eat soon.”
He opens the door, and we step back out into the main part of the barn.
Lita has a basket full of eggs now and Fox is at the front of the nearest stall, petting a cow’s head.
Snake is standing by the front door of the barn, clearly ready to leave.
“Do not tell me you have found yourself a pet.” I give Fox an amused look as he turns away from the cow, letting his hand drop.
“Well, he is awfully cute,” Fox admits, “But I do not think he would fit inside a house.”
I do not think he is joking. “What about the chickens?”
“They are definitely not cute, and they are afraid of everything,” he says. “Well, not Lita, but they went a little crazy when I got close, and they pecked at Snake when he tried to help collect the eggs.”
That explains why Snake is waiting at the door.
It probably explains why Fox decided to make friends with a cow, too.
“Well, we have meat now so we should keep moving so we can eat soon.”
Fox moves away from the cow, and Lita rubs his back in consolation as we head out of the barn.
It is still quiet outside, and dark away from the streetlights.
I cannot fix the lock I broke so I simply ask Scratch to wedge the door closed with a brick.
He does so, and I ask him to lead the way to the other barn.
Chapter Forty-One
Scratch
Mysensesareonhigh alert as we move from one barn to the next. It feels strange to still be sneaking around while our plan is to take over the town as Alphas under Lita as our Luna.
It also feels strange to have Lita with us.
I can barely believe we’re all mated to her now.
I keep rubbing at the mark she made on my wrist, feeling it to check it’s real and it’s still there.
