Dev pointed down to the dark green wool blanket at his feet that she'd somehow missed seeing. "There's still enough daylight to blister you guys so we hid them fast."
But oddly the sunlight wasn't hurting her at all--most likely because of her ghostlike form. Amazed, she watched the first sunset she'd seen in over five thousand years. The sky was absolutely breathtaking with ribbons of pink and orange twisting through the darkening blue.
If only she could feel the rays on her skin.
But seeing it was enough. She wanted to cry over the sight she'd missed all this time. "It's beautiful." But that tender swell in her breast died as she glanced down to the blanket and realized what it looked like spread out over the grass.
Two dead bodies.
And it was painfully obvious there were bodies under that blanket.
A car slowed down as it drove past them, raising the hair on the back of her neck. The driver stared at them until Fang looked over at her. Then the driver gunned the engine and sped away as fast as she could.
Sam let out an elongated breath. "Sheez, guys, I think we better hurry before someone calls the cops and tells them you're trying to hide bodies in the Pontchartrain."
Ethon's laugh rang out from under the blanket.
Dev kicked him. "Sorry. Accident."
Ethon growled low in his throat. "You better be glad I'm pinned, Bear."
Dev flashed her a grin before he turned his attention back to their task. "Sun's setting. Anyone see anything?"
Just the research building and Lake Oaks Park across the street. The parking lot on her left for the university and fitness center and the houses behind them. It all looked completely normal and the traffic was getting heavier.
We are so going to jail....
Would Ash bail them out?
Fang turned around slowly.
And true to her prediction, she heard police sirens in the distance, drawing closer.
Crap.
"Gods, I hope that's not for us," Fang mumbled.
Dev snorted. "Oh, you know it is. That's our luck, mon frere." He glared at the horizon. "C'mon sunset. Don't fail us."
Fang scoffed at his words. "Fail us, hell. The police show up and I'm flashing home. I say we leave the Dogs here to get their own butts out of the sling."
"Screw you, Wolf," Ethon snapped.
Dev held his hand up to silence them. "Look."
Sam didn't see anything until the last ray vanished. Then there was a slight shimmering just a few feet in front of them. The kind that most would dismiss as a summer haze. Heat coming off the pavement.
But it wasn't that.
"Dev..." Fang's voice was stern as the sound of speeding cars drew closer.
Sam saw the police lights.
"Hunters, rise!" Dev ordered.
Ethon and Scorpio rolled out from under the blanket at the same time the police shouted at them to freeze. Ignoring them, they ran forward.
Sam heard the sound of guns firing. One second she was shouting at Dev to dodge the bullet headed at his back, the next everything was different.