Page 80 of Shifter Situations

“I didn’t do anything…” I trailed off, grimacing. “I mean, I saw her hanging around earlier today. Then she fell. I haven’t seen her since.”

She ignored me, glaring over my head at Briggs. “Where is she?”

I felt him shrug. “I don’t know. If I had to guess, I’d say that she’s probably dead, though.”

“You killed her?” she asked him.

“No. I didn’t kill her.”

I pointed to my chest. “I dropped her, but that was it.”

“From where?” Baylor asked, raising a brow at me.

“Mmm,” I glanced up, trying to imagine how high we’d been. “The fall lasted for about ten, maybe eleven, seconds... So, I don’t know, like fourteen hundred feet up? I didn’t actually count.”

Baylor blinked at me, shocked, before tipping his head back to laugh. Briggs leaned down to place a kiss on my cheek.

“I’m sorry that I missed that,” my mate murmured.

“You fucking killed her.” Anna’s voice rose as she panted through her realization.

I shrugged. “I was an accomplice. I think gravity was the real perpetrator, but who knows.”

“You think you’re so fucking clever. I’m not stupid.”

“I didn’t say you were,” I enunciated slowly. “Maybe lacking self-preservation instincts, but not dumb by any means. I think you know exactly what I’ve done. The same way I know what you’ve been doing.”

“I didn’t do anything… Unless you’re talking about my lips around his dick,” Anna smarted.

“Let me go. I’m going to kill her now,” I hissed. “I’m done waiting.”

“No, Barbie. Not here.”

“Then where? When?”

“Later,” Baylor answered, watching Anna’s retreating back.

“I need you to help me keep an eye on her,” Briggs said to his brother.

“She’ll stay away once we shift. She’s smart enough to know when to push and when to stop.”

“I was talking about Sloane.”

“Cute,” I responded dryly. “How do you plan to do that?”

They grinned at each other, and even reading their minds gave me no insight into what they were thinking.

Their minds were blank.

Instead of focusing on them, I breathed through the swirling darkness inside me.

Briggs was right; I didn’t need to kill her right now. But accidents happened when hunting, right?

That wasn’t going to work either, though I could absolutely see my wolf chewing on her femur bone.

I grimaced.

That was a lie.