“Whatabout him?” I asked her.
Alexacleared her throat. “He doesn’t exactly blend in as a typical guard. He can beour back up outside.”
Iscanned over Nahuel, he had a long thick braid with pieces of turquoise andsilver hanging from the tips. His chunky jewelry and thick leather cuffbracelets dotted his hands. I eyed the jaguar tattoo on his arm. Yeah, hedidn’t look the typical RAIDOS employee.
Nahuelcracked a smile. “Once you make a scene inside, I will use the distraction tosneak in and cover your backs.”
Inodded. “Sounds good.” I looked at my wrists, they were still red and I wasfeeling tired. I hoped giving Kai my silver immunity meant he was okay. I feltpain and anger through the mate bond, but he was trying to hide most of it fromme.
‘We’rehere. Hang in there. We’re coming.’Ifelt a spike of fear and shame through the mate bond, but he didn’t respond.What the hell?
“Let’sgo! We need to get him out of here,” I told everyone.
Alexastared at her hands. “Hang on, I want to try something. Give me the tablet.”She took a deep breath and her hands glowed blue. Nahuel and the others lookedon with curiosity.
Ihanded her the glowing tablet with the map application open. The second it hither blue glowing hands, it made a zapping sound and turned off.
Alexasmiled. “I know what this new power is.”
Sadiehad come up behind me; she smelled amazing, of vanilla and mango. Damn her.
“Youcan control electricity,” Sadie stated the obvious, sounding unimpressed.
Alexagrinned. “Not just that. I can make an EMP. An electromagnetic pulse.”
“Iknow what an EMP is.” Sadie gave her attitude. Good old Sadie. Leave it to herto be bitchy in a stressful time.
“Iwonder how big of one you could make. Could you black out a whole building?” Iasked her trying to divert the tension, as Alexa gave her a glare.
Alexashrugged. “We’ll find out.”
Waituntil Kai found out about this. Alexa was a very valuable wolf. Should I beprotecting her better by not letting her go inside? What would Kai do? I neededall the help I could get.
Sadieand Brett loaded up on guns and weapons while Alexa and I shifted into wolfform and they tied us with silver collars and muzzles. The second the silverhit my skin I felt like it was on fire. It burned. I could see Alexa strugglingas well.
Nahuelchanted. He closed his eyes and took in deep breaths through his nose. I wasabout to look away from him and follow Alexa into the woods when I noticed hisface changing shape. He quickly undressed. Spotted fur began to burst out ofhis skin. His fingers transformed to claws. What the hell! The sound of crackingbones filled my ears and suddenly Nahuel pierced me with a blue cat-eyed gaze.When he was done, he was on all fours; a beautiful and deadly black-spottedJaguar. He approached me. I knew it! I knew there was something different abouthim. I knew he wasn’t human! Hadn’t someone told me that some Shamans couldshapeshift? That’s why they were allowed knowledge of our kind.
Heshowed me his teeth in a big cat grin. His fang teeth were two-inches long andthick. If I didn’t know it was Nahuel, I might have been scared. I nudged himwith my muzzle and he purred.
‘Seeyou inside,’I tried.
‘Staysafe,’he told me.
Itworked! We could communicate. But he wasn’t pack. Everything was blowing mymind, but I had to go get Kai. I turned to see Brett and Sadie staring atNahuel’s jaguar form, in shock.
Sadieshook off her shock and clicked a leash on my collar. “Put up a fight at thegates. Make it look real.”
Well,that wouldn’t be a problem.
Rescue
Afterwalking through a thick stretch of trees, we made it back out onto the openroad. The armed men in front of the gates saw us walk out of the woods and camerunning over, guns raised.
“Ourvan broke down a mile back! We caught these two causing a public disturbance.Our orders were to bring them here,” Sadie said. She immediately handed him herbadge.
Iquickly yanked the leash out of her hand and lunged for the guard, growling andshowing my fangs. Sadie grabbed the leash and slammed me down hard. Ow! I’llbet she had been waiting to do that for months. I met her eyes and growled lowand deep.
Theguard fell back on his butt and handed Sadie her ID without looking.
