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I was still trying to decipher what was going on between us when we pulled into theWet Dog.
There were three cars parked out front and theopensign wasn’t lit up. I can’t imagine they got a lot of traffic in the afternoon and probably only opened at night.
I hoped Xander was here and that we weren’t making a huge mistake coming back to this place so soon after our last visit. None of the other shifters were there to see us leave on good terms with their boss.
Elias got out of the car and I followed. We hadn’t said a word, but there was a silent understanding between us that we were in this together.
The sound of a car approaching made both of us stop right before we reached the front door.
I turned to see a white SUV stop in the parking lot. The doors opened and David and the shifter twins got out.
The hair on the back of my neck stood on edge. “I thought you said they’d have to heal up first.”
“I was wrong,” Elias said. “Go!”
The two of us bolted through the door. “Xander!” I yelled for the shifter. “We’ve got trouble.”
Xander popped up from behind the bar, a wrench in his hand. He was in a white t-shirt and had grease stains on his cheek. “What’s going on?”
“Someone thinks you have the stone,” I said.
“Tell me it’s safe,” he said.
“It’s safe,” I said. “But that’s not going to stop these guys from trying to kill us to find it.”
“Which guys?” Xander asked.
The door exploded, sending shards of glass and pieces of wood flying. I covered my face with my arms.
“Never mind,” Xander asked as he grabbed my hand and dragged me away from the door.
I coughed on dust and fanned it away with my hand.
“Hand over the stone, and we’ll let you live,” David said.
“What? Only three of you?” Xander asked as he moved toward the newcomers.
I took a step back, moving away from David and the twins.
“Three of you, three of us,” David said.
“Doesn’t seem fair,” Xander said. “You should have brought more fighters.”
“The stone isn’t even here,” I said. “And like we’d give it to you anyway.”
“Then I guess we have to torture its location out of you.” David’s fingertips lit up with tiny sparks that reminded me of lightening. “This will be fun.”
Even with three against three, I was pretty sure we were totally screwed.
