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I let go of a little bit of tension. I was going to have to get the EMTs to use holy water on them, but maybe… “We haven’t done anything wrong here. This is the work of Luciana Alvarez. It’s exactly the same as what happened in Cedar Ridge, Texas. If you get us the clothes, we can sort this all out.”
“She needs to drop her weapon.”
I looked at Cosette. She bit her lip as she eyed the door. “Would you rather I just made this all go away?”
Tempting. Really tempting. But I shook my head. “We tried that last time and look where it got us. We have to cooperate.”
“Fine. But I’m not kneeling in demon ashes.” Her sword winked out and she brushed her hands on her jeans.
“What the fuck was that?” A cop yelled.
Ugh. Way to diffuse the situation. I waved my hands, drawing the cops’ attention back to me. “Please don’t be afraid. The wolves are going to shift now.”
One by one, the guys took their human forms until only Meredith was left. She huddled against Donovan’s legs and I didn’t blame her. “Now, we need our clothes. Please.”
A cop disappeared and came back a minute later with one of the Cazadores’ duffels of clothes. He tossed it toward us.
The guys held their hands out and slowly reached for clothes. Everyone was moving very slowly. Carefully. Making sure there were no mistakes. It was necessary, but we didn’t have this much time. Adrian and Shane—not to mention the woman—needed help now.
My arms ached, but I wasn’t about to lower them.
“What about that one?” One of the cops motioned at Meredith with his guns.
Donovan growled.
“Calm down,” I whispered. “That’s my friend Meredith. She’s a minor and would like some privacy to change.”
She approached bag, grabbing the sweats in her mouth, and then slowly walked behind a pew. A few moments later, she stood, fully clothed.
“Thank you,” she said.
This isn’t going to go well, cherie.
Yeah, but we’re screwed either way. At least now we can be seen as cooperative.
“Everyone outside. Move it. Now.”
Ordering wolves around was bad. Ordering an alpha was pretty damned stupid. And ordering Alphas like Donovan and Lucas while pointing guns at them and their mates…
Their power rose, brushing against my hair.
Help me. I called to Dastien. We can’t hurt the cops.
“Move!” The cop yelled, shoving a gun in Claudia’s face.
Lucas’ power rose, and Dastien finally started to realize what I’d known all along. Take what you need.
“We’re going with the cops.” I put everything Dastien and I had behind the words—commanding them to start moving. Lucas and Donovan turned their power toward me. I had to grit my teeth against the massive force of alpha energy, but I wasn’t backing down. “We have to do this or we’ll just prove we’re the monsters
they fear.”
Meredith’s lips were pressed tight as she stared down her mate. From the look on her face, she was giving him a solid dressing-down.
“She’s right. Let’s go,” Meredith said. She raised her hands as she moved slowly toward the cops with me.
The cops moved quickly, cuffing Meredith and me before moving on to the rest. I kept my eyes on the Weres. If anyone was going to act out, I had to stop it. We couldn’t afford to open a rift between the supernaturals and humans. Not if we had any chance at peacefully coexisting.
I expected the most trouble from Van, but he’d disappeared without ever being seen by the cops. That was probably for the better. As it was, Cosette had done some Jedi mind trick on them, holding her wrists together so they seemed to think she was already cuffed.
