“You don’t have to do anything, girl. You’re a badass bounty hunter.”
“Who’ll have her ass handed to her by her boss if she doesn’t take his call.”
“It’s Mack?” Tianna asked. Apparently she and Cass had done some pillow talking.
“The one and only.” I hit the answer button and snapped the phone to my ear before I could change my mind. “Evie Black,” I answered. Fucker better not be calling to bitch at me about something. I had enough to deal with today.
“Where the fuck have you been?” Mack barked into the phone. The satyr and head of the entire Supernatural Bounty Hunting Agency was known for his gruff demeanor and addiction to banging fae. “I’ve been calling you like I got nothin’ better to do with my time.”
Yeah, he’d actually probably had Stella, his secretary who handled the entire agency while Mack was “otherwise engaged,” doing the dialing. But no one talked back to Mack and got away with it.
“I was busy,” I said without explanation. I hadn’t let Mack in on the whole kitsune underworld-gate deal, and I didn’t think now was the time. A tsunami was rolling our way.
“Yeah, busy not taking my call is what you were. Listen, we’ve got a major problem. The humans are up in arms. The sirens—”
Please don’t say it, please...
“—they’ve escaped again. Both of them this time.”
I let Mack go on while I processed that shit for news. Sirens loose. Tsunami approaching … my head was reeling.
“I don’t know what kind of clusterfuck the human authorities are running,” Mack fumed, “but this next time I’m keeping them myself until the humans can prove they actually have a way to contain the bitches.”
“You’re sure they’re out?” I asked when I finally found my voice.
“A hundred percent. And I need you to bring them back to me right away. I’ll pay you big time, Evie. You and Cass are the only ones that can handle them. Are you up for it? The bounty is at a hundred large this time. The humans are willing to pay big bucks to get these bitches under lock and key. Again.”
I barely registered the money. All I could think was that the bitch who’d killed Gran was on the loose again, and this time she had her sister with her.
“Yeah, I’m on it,” I said. My voice could cut glass.
“Good. Call me when you have something.” And the satyr hung up.
“What’d he want?” Cass asked right away.
“Calista and her sister … have broken out.”
“What?” Molly squealed.
“Both of them?” Tianna asked, her shock evident across her face.
I nodded numbly. “They’re on the loose, and it’s Cass’ and my job to bring them back in.”
Brock let loose a wicked snarl. I didn’t dare meet the fury I was certain I’d find in his gaze. Because I knew exactly what this meant.
My bestie squeezed my hand. “You know what this means, right?” he asked.
“Yeah, they’re the ones causing the tsunami. Which means we can’t go anywhere.”
I’d never heard of sirens powerful enough to move tectonic plates, but these were no ordinary sirens. I shivered just thinking about what would happen if all three of them got together, when two of them were this powerful.
“Mother. Fucker!” Brock roared.
“If they’re heading toward the gate, that means the tsunami is only a distraction to get us out of the area,” I said. Now it was clear as day.
“So that you’d leave the gate exposed,” Molly added.
“Yep.” I nodded, sure that’s what the conniving bitches were planning.
