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"Interesting."Morgan put in."Were you aware of pulling energy from Devon while you worked?"
"No."I shook my head.
"Not just you," Morgan said."it was slight but your Harmonia pulled from him too."
I looked at him, confused, before turning to Alexis."Do you know anything about this?"
"Not off hand.Give me a few minutes with Morgan and we'll see if we can figure it out."She said.
"All right."I nodded, trusting her to figure out what was going on."I'll see what Detective Bolser wanted while you do that."
She nodded and I turned and went back to the Detective, Devon right beside me.
"You wanted to talk?"I asked approaching the man who was only a couple inches taller than me.
"I did."He glanced at Devon."We think we have the rest of your kidnappers in custody and they're talking."
"What are they telling you?"
"That they were hired to take you.They don't have a name, just a picture and the hotel's address, the man who hired them gave them the drugs they darted you with."
"Do you have a description of the guy who hired them?"
"I can do you one better than that, one of them sat with a sketch artist."
"Can I see if I recognize him?"
"Sure."He pulled his PCD from a jacket pocket and tapped the screen a few times before turning it.."Do know him?"
I made a face and glanced at Devon with an unhappy look.Reaching back into the hip pocket of my jeans I pulled out my own PCD and navigated through some old pictures.When I found the one of Brandon from not long before I first shifted I turned it to face the detective.
"I don't know, you tell me."
He turned his own device so that he could compare the two pictures."Looks like the same guy to me.Who is it?"
"His name is Brandon Stone.I grew up with him.He was my best friend for years.He changed after I shifted."
"I take it he's Kitsune?"He didn't sound happy.
I nodded."He started causing trouble for me and Devon.It got to the point that our Anikitos banished him.He's the only one we could think of who might be behind the kidnapping."
"Do you know where he went after he was banished?"
I shook my head."Not exactly, Alexis said our Anikitos checked into it.He was supposed to go stay with some family in California.When Bill contacted them, he discovered that he had been there, but only briefly.Brandon had told them he was there for a visit, he was just passing through before he left.No one knows where he's been since."
"Obviously he's been in touch with someone.Someone had to have told him we are here and our hotel."Devon put in."but we don't know who...yet."
The detective nodded unhappily."Do you know why he'd try to kidnap you?"
"I can only guess.It's likely more of what he was doing that got him banished.He seems determined that I'm his mate, that Devon has stolen me from him, and that he can convince me that we belong together, if only he had a chance."I rolled my eyes as I repeated Brandon's reasoning, letting the detective know what I thought.
Bolser looked from me to Devon and back again."The two of you are mated, right?"
"Not exactly, at least, not yet."I said.
"She means we haven't sealed our mating yet.We've both had a lot of changes lately and we just want to be sure."
I nodded, agreeing with Devon.
