Angel pointed to the store. “What happened?”
I gave him a quick rundown, knowing I could trust Angel to keep the supernatural stuff out.
“Is the guy still in there?” he asked with an alarmed look. “With Bec?”
“He’s never going to hurt anyone again,” I said.
Angel opened his mouth to ask why when he realized what I must’ve done. He paled a little. “Did you give the soul gaze?”
I shrugged and didn’t answer. He’d see what I had done the moment he went in to collect the robber. After receiving a world serpent’s soul gaze, he’d never be free of fear again. For the rest of his life, every sound would be a monster. Every shadow was death coming for him. Every creak of a floorboard was another human ready to hurt or murder him.
He’d never know another moment of peace for the rest of his life.
It wasn’t something I did lightly, but he’d threatened my mate. That called for extreme retribution.
“If the store has security cameras, will they show anything that’ll be hard to explain?” he asked.
“The cameras won’t show anything after I walked in,” I said.
“It must be nice to be able to zap stuff,” Angel grumbled. Zap was a term I’d heard a few times. Some creatures, like me, could flare our aura and kill cameras and phones around us. Which meant I was going to need to replace my phone again.
Oh, and Bec’s phone also, I thought with a wince. Should I tell her that her dead phone was my fault?
Nope, definitely not.
“Hey, um, Officer?”
We both faced Bec standing in the partially open door to the store. “The robber is crawling to the back door. He’s not moving fast, but you might want to do something before he gets there.”
“Hi, Bec,” Angel said. “It’s nice to meet you.”
“Uh, hello, person I don’t know,” she said, stepping aside so Angel could pass her.
“I’m a member of Lobo Gris,” he said, as if that explained everything. It would have, if she wasn’t so new to our world.
“Good for you,” Bec said, clearly confused. She probably thought he was a member of a biker gang or something.
Angel chuckled and disappeared inside as she stepped fully outside to join me.
“Angel is a wolf shifter, and Lobo Gris is his pack,” I explained.
She went silent as she digested the new information. “Is that the pack that Mila’s mate Carter is part of?”
I nodded. “Yes. He’d deny it if I said so, but they’re his pack. He likes to pretend Gio and Mila are enough, but wolves love to run with other wolves. Mikey created a new term, associate pack members. It doesn’t mean anything, but it makes wolves like Carter feel better.”
“I can understand needing those kinds of things to save your pride," Bec murmured, then looked back at the store. “Is the robber human?”
I nodded. “Yes.”
She looked like she was going to ask another question when Angel came out with the robber. The human’s hands were cuffed behind his back, and he was shaking so violently that Angel was mostly carrying him.
“I’m going to secure him in my squad car, then I have to wait for someone to show up to take over the store,” Angel explained. “There’s no one inside.”
“The employee left,” I explained. “I doubt she’s coming back.”
“You guys can leave,” Angel said. “I know how to get a hold of you if I need to.”
“Good,” Bec said. She turned to face me with a fierce expression on her face. “Don’t follow me.”
