didn’t know supes existed.
“Come on, you stupid bleeding heart. Be stupid enough to fall for this and make our job this easy.”
“No.” I smirked at the guy when he did a double take. “For one, ‘supe security’ isn’t a real thing, so nice try. Two, you—”
“We have an official order and—” he tried, but I kept going.
“Need to contact my attorney for any matters you want to discuss with me.”
“He’s been contacted and he will meet you there,” he promised.
“He’s not lying,” Ray hedged.
Except he was. The guy’s thoughts told me so.
I shook my head. “He’s wearing a telepathy blocking charm and several of the charms I wear.” I chuckled when several men of the group flinched. “One of the magical objects I have lets me know that. It flares up in warning, so my guard might not be able to tell me you’re lying, but it tells me you came here with protection against that. So, you’re here for nothing good. My answer is no.”
“You don’t get to say no,” the first guy sneered. “You are not the boss here.”
“Neither are you,” I purred. “This isn’t your house, and you haven’t even identified yourself. You’re not just coming in here and declaring I have to come with you and I’m gonna do it.”
“They’re dragons,” Ray filled in for me.
I nodded and then gestured to a shifter not far from me. “Fine, go order that guy to just go with you. See how well that works. It won’t, right? You can’t. So my answer stands. You don’t have the authority to order me to do shit, and I won’t.”
“You will come with us, and we have the authority to make you,” he declared, smirking at me before looking to Ray. “And I suggest you not interfere unless you want to be called in front of your council for going against an official decree.”
Shit. Something was really going down as he pulled out paperwork, but his thoughts were jumbled. All of them were, and too many. That was the problem with being able to hear them over the charms… I couldn’t control that yet and it was chaotic, erratic.
Kinda like my powers overall. Damn.
I shut it off because it was distracting and focused on the now, pulling a different trick in case I needed it. “I don’t need his help except to call Edelman.”
“Headmaster Edelman is off campus; so are all the deans,” the guy informed me.
Ray let out a deep growl. “These guys work for Alpha Berman. This is an emergency summons of aid that requires your presence to help them.”
I snorted. “Well, I called that one. Geez, you guys are so damn easy to predict. Someone can do what you want, and you just try to call them, like shotgun. You can’t ‘eminent domain’ me.”
“You will come with us and follow the order,” he snarled.
“You have no jurisdiction over me, and that asshole can suck a fat one,” I snapped as I flipped back on my telepathy. It might hurt, but I needed the answers and fast. I glanced around and locked gazes with a dragon I kind of knew from the Diaz’s area. “Get people back. This is going to get ugly. Contact who you can and let them know Berman is making a play to abduct me.”
“You’re being unreasonable, and we’re not here to do that,” the guy snapped as he took a threatening step towards me.
I had my barrier up in a flash and held up a hand to Ray. “Stay out of this. They’re not screwing around. This will end up with you at your council, and I don’t want that. Call who you can and get help here. They must have planned this for when we wouldn’t have the right people here.” I nodded when I heard that in their thoughts, seeing it in their eyes. “Yeah, this is legal, my ass.”
“It is,” he snarled trying to grab me even with the barrier.
“It’s not and we both know that,” I sneered. “I’m not a dragon. But here’s what I don’t get—how do you see this playing out for you? You nab me for Berman, and he knows this will start huge shit. He won’t take the fall for that. He won’t admit he sanctioned this. No, he will disavow all of this and lay it at your feet. All of this will be some coverup of you guys going rogue.”
Everyone froze, even the guy trying to get in my barrier.
My eyes went wide as