“Cain’s dead?” Jen asked as she looked at her mate and her heart sped up in her chest. Had she wanted to be there when thevamp was taken out? Absolutely, but it mattered more that he was dead whether she’d gotten to see it or not.
“He is,” Decebel confirmed.
“Did they get his head?” she asked and then held up her hand and shook her head. “Wait, don’t answer that. I’ll just be jealous of the person who got it and I need to be focused on killing hybrids. I can be jealous later.”
“Anyone ever tell you that you should consider psychological testing?” Alice asked from where she stood, her hands in the pockets of her well worn jeans.
Jen smiled at her. “Doc, you are a doc right?”
“MD not PhD,” Alice nodded.
“Excellent, easy nickname. And all my other nicknames are probably not appropriate.”
“Why is that stopping you?” Stella asked her.
Jen pursed her lips. “I’m trying to grow.”
Stella smothered a laugh and Jen flipped her off. “Suck it Aretha.”
“A talented, black singer?” Stella smirked. “That’s the best you could do?”
Jen shrugged. “I could go with something that had to do with your profession and poles, but as I said, I’m trying to grow.”
“Fair,” Stella lifted a shoulder slightly as her head tilted to the side.
Jen turned her attention back to Alice. “So, Doc, back to the psych mumbo jumbo. I don’t need to spend money on an evaluation that will tell us what we all already know.”
“That you’re batshit crazy, disturbed, completely unstable, and most likely a borderline psychopath?” Adam asked as he strolled in with Crina in tow.
“Takes one to know one,” Jen sang. She pointed to her empty pockets on her cargo pants and looked at Adam. “Can you weapon me up?”
Adam snapped his fingers, and his hand was suddenly full of daggers.
Jen clapped and snatched them up, putting them in any spot she could.
“Why do you need blades if you are a wolf?”
From where she’d been crouched, Jen looked up at Alice and slipped a blade into her boot. “I prefer to fight in my human form. Especially if there’s not a fae nearby to fix the naked thing when I phase back. Dec tends to get a little snappy when I’m naked around anyone but him.”
“You don’t say?” Alice’s brow rose.
Jen huffed. “I know. It’s completely ridiculous. Also, I just like knives.”
“I told you she’s unstable.” Adam glanced at Maxim’s mate before he made more weapons appear and handed them out to those who wanted them.
“I’m beginning to understand.” Alice’s brow rose.
“Maxim.” As usual, Decebel ignored most of Jen’s banter with everyone else. She figured it was his way of maintaining his sanity. “Fane said for us to check the news via the internet and see where the crime, deaths, or disappearances have gone up. Those are the places we need to go to first.”
Maxim inclined his head.
“I’ll get on that.” Adam pulled out his phone. “Since I’ll be the one getting us there.”
Jen walked over to Stella and nudged her shoulder. “You good?” She noticed the healer seemed a tad pensive, regardless of their earlier banter.
Stella frowned. “I don’t know. Something is off.”
“Something to do with the healers? Or something here?” Jen’s senses were on high alert.
