Page 10 of Broken Wolf

“FBI, so this isn’t our thing,” I corrected.

“You can’t arrest me and you pull my gun on me, bitch?” the guy on the ground seethed, pushing up like he was going to make a move.

“Bitch, I can arrest you, but I just hand you over,” I drawled. I wanted to roll my eyes at myself. Why was I explaining myself to this fool? “Don’t move means don’t fucking move. I can still shoot you.”

A patrol car was ridiculously close for how fast response time was. Seriously, like a couple blocks at most.

Carter moved towards them with his badge out. “We were out at an event a few blocks away and heard it.”

“I’m Division Chief Seraphine Thomas,” I added.

“I recognize you, Chief Thomas,” one of the officers replied. “Though you weren’t shoeless last time we met.”

“Running in heels is a bitch,” I joked. “I didn’t check him. I wanted to make sure I was between him and the kid in the vehicle.”

“This new trend of jacking cars and not caring that kids are in them is even more disgusting than jacking cars at gunpoint,” he complained. “Can your friend cover me while I check him?”

“Yes, I can,” Carter accepted.

His partner did the same for the other guy, and five minutes later they were both cuffed in the back of their cruiser. The ambulance pulled up at the scene and I winced, looking at the mom.

“How’s your insurance?” I shrugged when she frowned at me. “Isn’t an ambulance ride like six grand even with insurance now? I can drive your SUV to the hospital and leave it parked there so you have a way to get home when you’re done. The ER is expensive enough.”

She blinked at me some more. “Why do people say you’re such a bitch? Seriously?”

I smiled while the others there winced or looked at her like she was the bitch. I thought she was endearing and amusing given she was in a shit ton of pain. “I lack a sensitivity chip normally getting shit done or focusing on facts and I don’t play nice with idiots.”

“Girl, none of us should. Yes, that would be amazing if you don’t mind. My boyfriend can get a ride to meet us there and help with the baby.”

Perfect. I checked they could take her statement there, but Carter changed it so he was driving her SUV and I went with my security to follow.

Fair enough.

We ended up playing with the baby who was about the same age as Topher while we gave our statements to different officers. Then I wished the woman luck and headed out. Her boyfriend had arrived by then and thanked us for helping and could take care of his son, so everything was settled pretty well.

We headed home and I was glad there was food coming with us, even better that it was sushi.

Though feeding sushi to supes was stupid expensive.

“We need to open a sushi place just for supes with the seafood farm seafood and at a discounted rate so we all stop spending so much on fucking sushi when it’s so fucking good for us and what we need,” I grumbled as we got on the elevator. “Even Dain is fine with me eating it all of the time and my stupid diet that—I bet he’d let me eat less stupid kale if I had more seaweed.”

“That’s actually a fantastic idea and solves what to do with the storefronts in one of the new buildings,” Orson said.

Needless to say, I gave him a look that he needed to elaborate on that.

“Wait, first feed,” Carter said quietly, nodding for me to kiss Orson.

Something neither of us were opposed to. And he was right, I was hungry for more than food and being cranky. I took huge sips as Orson took the kiss up several levels, his hands all over me.

It was nice to feel desired, but I honestly wasn’t in the mood for sex.

I hadn’t been for a while which was always a problem when I was a siren, but she had been very understanding and accepting of that since we’d met Stacey. She was worried about me as well since I’d tuned out for a night and let her take over.

Luckily, Orson picked up on that and toned it back down, leaning his forehead to mine. “One of the buildings you own in the Loop has over a dozen stores on the first floor, not just a lobby. I heard Simone talking about it and the nightmare it was going to be because the tenants aren’t happy about the change in ownership.”

I leaned back and smiled. “Oh, I bet because they liked that the previous owners hated supes and they do too. It’s in some super pricey area and—”

Carter snorted. “All of the Loop is super pricey, Sera.”

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