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staying. He’d barged into her room, and reported that while there was some shuffling, he didn’t see much skin. I might have had a head injury, but that didn’t get in the way of me wanting all the gossip.
    “She’s got a concussion,” Baron repeated. “I’ve had a bunch of them. They’ll tell her to be careful, no strenuous activity for a couple weeks, then hit her with a massive bill for telling her what she already knows. We can take care of her here without the hassle of going to the ER.”
    “I don’t necessarily think this is the time to brag about having a bunch of concussions. Doesn’t add to your credibility.” I laughed, although he was probably right. Besides the dizziness and the ever-present threat of puking, the rest of me was fine. Truth be told, this wasn’t my first rodeo, either. I’d fallen off of horses and found out the hard way I couldn’t fly. But I wasn’t bragging about it.
    “It’s just a brain injury. Yeah, we should totally chance it. Why don’t you want anyone to know about this?” Lyssie glared at Baron and he wasn’t backing down. I may have been imagining things in light of my head wound, everyone was swimming in a pool of thick liquid, but I liked this fire in Lyssie. I wondered what she was going to be like when she finally got laid.
    I stopped myself from saying that out loud. The concussion blurred the line between thoughts and reality. She’d kill me if I spilled her secret in front of Baron.
    “We’re going to shift by the end of the week. Shadow’s gunning for Ryker. I don’t want to make things worse in the meantime. Shit’s already out of control. We don’t need to up the ante.” Baron landed next to me on the couch. I put my legs over his lap. He reached for me immediately, stroking my body under the blanket, trying to soothe me, but he was coming way too close to the scar tissue. It took everything I had not to squirm. “We’ll handle it on our own and keep you girls safe.”
    “I’m the only one who hasn’t been targeted.” Lyssie didn’t back down. She came back over to me, touching the lump on my head lightly. “Yet. They keep getting closer. I don’t want to be the direct hit.”
    “We’ll stick together.” Their argument made my head pound even more, and I really didn’t want to hurl. “They wait until their target is alone to strike. We know what their pattern is, and we won’t give them another opportunity.”
    “Two days until the full moon,” Baron said softly. His hand stilled and he stared straight ahead, picturing whatever he thought would happen. He shook his head to get rid of the image. “Then it’s over.”
    “I’m exhausted. I want to go to bed.” I kept the blanket around me when I got up. I couldn’t shake the chill tonight. Baron looked up at me, unsure what to do. “Come with me?”
    His face brightened, and I suddenly felt a lot better. He put his hand on the small of my back.
    “Should you be sleeping with a concussion?” Lyssie jumped from the chair, blockading my bedroom door. “What if you slip into a coma?”
    “It’s safe,” Baron insisted. “I Googled it.”
    “Oh, please.” Lyssie didn’t budge. “I could type in the same symptoms and it would say she has cancer.”
    “Lys, I wouldn’t do anything that I didn’t think was safe.” That was a stretch, but I wanted to make her move. “And think about it. I’ve dealt with Al-Qaeda. Some werewolf flunky with bad aim isn’t going to be the one to take me down.” I turned back to my werewolf flunky. “No offense.”
    “None taken.” Baron’s smile was feral, and Lyssie was about to see another long, hot kiss if she didn’t get out of the way.
    She grabbed Baron’s arm before he had a chance to do anything. This was payback for sending Dallas home tonight. It had to be. “If she wakes up in the middle of the night in a panic, speak to her loud and clear. Tell her who you are, and where she is. It takes her a minute to calm down, but