Everyone is watching Genevieve, I can’t wait to see her face when Apollo comes out with Seraphina. She’s a Taipan snake, they’re the deadliest snakes in the world. I only wish one of the Athanasious or Nikolaidises could shift in here. The Athanasious are polar bear shifters and the Nikolaidises are white tigers. One day soon she’ll see their animals.
Apollo comes out with Seraphina wrapped around him.
“Holy crap. Is that a snake? Where did it come from?” Genevieve asks as she backs up into me.
“Don’t worry, love. That’s Seraphina.”
“What do you mean that’s Seraphina? That’s a snake! And snakes bite!”
Everyone is holding back their laughter as we listen to Genevieve.
“Why aren’t you all panicking? Why are you all so calm? That snake’s gonna kill us!”
Seraphina shifts back in the corner and Apollo hands her some clothes.
“I take a little offense to that. I only bite when annoyed and I haven’t killed anyone in a while now,” Seraphina says as she gets dressed.
“What the hell just happened?” Genevieve asks as she looks at me.
“Seraphina is a shifter like the others. They chose her because the others won’t fit in the room if they shift,” I explain to her.
“Whoa, wait a minute. Are you saying I’m fat?” Apollo gasps.
“I mean…” Adonis starts to say.
“Shush, Pudge.” Apollo squints at his brother.
“I keep having to apologize for my kids. Pretty soon I’m just going to carry a sign around that says. ‘Hi, my name is Zeus. Please ignore my children…they’re…special.’”
We all laugh as the brothers act hurt.
“You should see when they’re all together.” Sebastiano laughs.
“There’s more brothers?” Genevieve asks.
“Ares is my oldest and there’s Artemis, she’s my baby.” Zeus smiles.
“Do you really turn into polar bears?”
“We do. One day we’ll show you.”
Genevieve takes a deep breath and nods.
“I have a feeling there’s more that you need to tell me,” she says as she looks at Enea.
Enea nods and looks at Sebastiano.
“We found out some things about Julian and his brother, Randall. I’m not sure if you know any of this. But the brothers have worked at five different sheriff’s stations in the last eight years. And each time they left, there were unexplained deaths. They would leave each station right after there had been a few deaths.”
“Are you saying they were killing people?”
“That’s what it’s looking like.”
“Are you saying they would’ve killed me?” she asks as her voice shakes.
“We can’t say that for sure. None ofthe people that either went missing or were killed were tied to them like you were.”
“Why would you think that they had something to do with their deaths?”
