Those kinds of people would not step foot in a warehouse.
It kind of pisses me off more, if that’s even possible. At least with a warehouse, it looks dodgy, it looks like illegal shit is going on, and it looks like a place where people get hurt or worse, this place looks pretty, clean, and very wealthy.
Pain and suffering are made to look innocent.
I fucking hate that.
My hand moves to my pocket just to check, and I grin. I’ve still got the stuff to make the house go boom. Frowning, I realize that actually, that would be a really bad fucking idea. There’s evidence in there that we need, so I can’t just blow it up.
Well, that sucks.
Maybe I can talk to Ty and see if he will let me blow it up when everyone is done processing the place and all the evidence has been gathered? I mean that could take months, maybe even longer, but I’m willing to wait.
Actually, I bet that Rana would love to blow this place up. There’s no doubt in my mind that she suffered a lot here, and I think it would be cathartic for her to destroy it. I’m going to need to talk to Ty about that and see if I can convince him to let me get Rana to help.
If he agrees to let me blow it up in the first place.
Just like Derek’s house of evil, this place needs to go boom. Preferably a big sparkly boom.
I’ve started to toy with the idea of adding fireworks into my explosives to make them pretty, because if I’m using explosives, then subtlety has very much gone out of the window anyway, and it’s really not going to matter if my explosion is full of purple sparkles.
The problem is, I am not clever enough for that, and I don’t even know where to start in order to make it happen.
“Can you make my explosives sparkle like fireworks?” I ask Ransom.
“Right now?” He asks, his eyebrows raised as River chuckles from the other side of me.
“Well, no, we should probably focus on the current situation,” I grin as we run toward the building.
“Good idea, Neith,” River chuckles.
My smile widens. I love that they’re just going along with my crazy outbursts now, even when they are in the middle of a job.
Refocusing, I shift my mind back to the job.
We can’t fuck this up.
If nothing has changed since Rana was kept prisoner here, then behind this door, there should be a short corridor and a set of steps that lead down into the bowels of the building and to the cells.
The keys are in the guard room, but she warned us that the cells also have spells on them, and that the keys not only unlock the doors but also unlock the spells as well, so getting the keys is a must. We can’t just break the locks without releasing the spells.
As we get to the door, it opens, which is rather convenient because it means that we don’t have to worry about tripping any sort of alarm when we break in. The guy’s eyes immediately begin to glow as he spots us, and then with absolutely no hesitation, he shifts into a giant fucking tiger.
I tense, ready for the attack, as I call on Betty. Asael apparently got a really good workout last night, and he could do with a break, plus I promised Betty I’d bring her out, and now that she’s enchanted and can make her own bullets, I should be able to end any fucker here with her without having to take their heads off to ensure that they are dead.
“Sit,” River says calmly, only a touch of alpha to his voice. The tiger sits with absolutely no hesitation whatsoever. “Shift.”
“What the fuck?” The shifter growls, staring up at River with fear in his eyes.
“Tell no one about this,” River commands. He moves forward, handcuffing the guy and then knocking him out for good measure.
Ransom speaks over the comms to one of the teams waiting in the woods, to extract people as and when the opportunity arises.
“One by the side entrance, ready to be picked up,” he says. He then looks at River, “You’re going to have to be careful who you use that around. We don’t want word spreading.”
River nods, “I realized that as soon as I used it. It’s just natural for me to do it now. Plus, it pissed my kitsune off that he was challenging us, but not enough to shift because he’s so weak. I’ll keep a tighter hold over it all though. We’ve already got to see Ahren and deal with the beta soon.”
We both nod in agreement and then head through the still opened door as we see the team that’s going to take the downed tiger shifter move from the tree line.
