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last several minutes.
    Kaitlyn moaned. “I think she’s coming around,” Cassie said. “We need to cover her up.”
    “Don’t worry on our account,” Bennett drawled from behind him, “nudity doesn’t bother our kind much. In fact, we prefer it.”
    “Well, I don’t want her nude around you,” Cassie snapped.
    “Nothing we haven’t seen before,” muttered Mercury.
    Jace shot him a dark look knowing full well Mercury had seen plenty of Kaitlyn before. Bennett, too. At the same time. He hoped Cassie hadn’t heard, but she was reaching over to pick up Kaitlyn’s dress. It’d been ripped off in the transformation.
    “This is no good,” she decided. “I have blankets from winter in my car. We can use one of those.” She looked expectantly at him.
    Remaining kneeling in front of her, he dug her keys out. “Heads up!” Without looking, he threw them behind him toward Mercury. “Why don’t you go grab the blanket.”
    Mercury snagged the keys out of the air. “What the fuck, dude?”
    “I’m not leaving them. And it’d be better if there were less of you around when she wakes fully up.” He nodded toward Kaitlyn who was groaning, her eyes rolling around behind her lids, her fingers starting to twitch. “She knows I’m not a threat.”
    Bennett lowered his weapon, but didn’t holster it. “Go ahead, Mercury. I don’t want her shifting again and if the blanket helps, we’d better have it. I’ll radio the commander and let him know we’ll meet him where their car’s at when she’s fully with it.”
    Mercury slipped his weapon, a tranq gun from what Jace could tell, back into its spot on his hip. The thickset man stalked away glaring at Jace, his dark eyes reflecting like a pool of molten iron, until he was almost out of sight. Right before he turned around the corner of the trailer, he flipped Jace the bird, who just smirked. Dickhead .
    Bennett snorted at the brief exchange and spoke quietly into his radio comm, and Cassie rubbed Kaitlyn’s shoulder.  To comfort her friend or herself?
    “Are they human or shifter?” Cassie asked quietly.
    “Shifter,” Jace said, dreading her next question.
    “And you? Human or shifter.”
    “Shifter.”
    Paling, Cassie nodded, avoiding his gaze. Did she believe at all what she saw, what he just told her? She opened her mouth to say something, but Kaitlyn moaned and opened her eyes.
    “Cassie? What happened?” As the memories flooded back, Kaitlyn sat up quickly, noticed she was naked, and there were still others around besides Cassie, and curled in on herself. “I didn’t kill anyone again, did I?” she whispered.
    Cassie shook her head and Mercury came around the corner carrying a blanket with floral designs that seemed absurd in this situation. Jace was afraid she would shift seeing him again, but guessed that since this time he was holding a granny blanket instead of a tranq gun, that sat better with her.
    Mercury dropped the blanket to her lap. “Cover up and let’s go.”
    Cassie wrapped the blanket around her and then helped her stand. Jace hovered, wanting to help his mate out, but unwilling to touch any section of Kaitlyn’s bare body.
    “Let’s go back to the car and get you home,” Cassie murmured to Kaitlyn.
    “Y’all aren’t going home. You need to come with us,” Bennett said.
    “Where the fuck do you think you’re taking them?” Jace growled.
    “Where the fuck we say we’re going,” Mercury replied, smugly.
    “We’ll take them, and you, to the compound for questioning. We’re going to need to talk to them both. And this is your warning, Miller,” Bennett said, calling Jace by his last name. “We’ll let you stay with your woman, but if you cause any problems, we’ll knock you out.” He patted the gun he’d just holstered.
    Mercury grinned, resting his hand on the tranq gun strapped to his side.
    “You do anything more than chat with her, I’ll tear you and your compound apart,” Jace