Page 51 of Taming the Beasts
At this rate they were going to start shifting again. “Titan’s right!” I yelled.
Bennett just stared at me.
My eyes grew round. “Not about the conning you all thing. I’m obsessed with all of you. And that’s why I let Kebe get in my head and…” my voice trailed off. This time I turned to Emma for help.
“Zoey has a client named King and he told her he knew about the cure for werecats and vampirism.”
“There is no cure,” Callum said.
“But there is.” She looked up at him. “There’s a coin with an Anubis head…”
“And if there is a cure, it definitely wouldn’t have anything to do with the Egyptian god of the dead,” Callum said. “Emma, we already talked about this.”
“I know, but…”
“We found the coin.” I lifted up my hand to show them.
Everyone was finally quiet.
“I wanted to surprise you guys. And show you that I could pull off a heist. Which I did prove by the way.And Emma and I were going to tell you right away last night but Kebe…” my voice trailed off. She’d put all these doubts in my head. And I was worried she was right about all of it. “Last night went awry. And I’m sorry about that. But we’re here now. Emma and I wanted to tell all of you guys together. So…surprise!”
No one looked particularly surprised or happy. Except Titan. He had a big smile on his face.
“Told you she took something,” Titan said.
I couldn’t tell if he was smiling because he was pleased with himself, or smiling because of my crazy story.
“I hate to break it to you,” Bennett said. “But Callum is actually right for once. That coin has nothing to do with the cure.”
Callum sighed.
“But King said…”
“She trusts a sex client more than she trusts us,” Titan said.
“Fuck off, Titan,” I said.
He raised his eyebrows at me.
“And it’s not just King,” I said. “Kebe knew all about the coin. Her father is a museum curator. He knows all about relics and stuff.” I hated that Kebe was my reason of logic. Because I didn’t trust her at all.
“Interesting,” Callum said. “Well, we can definitely trust Kebe. We should probably check this coin out of she thinks it could help.”
Emma and I both glared at him.
“If Callum trusts this Kebe person, I definitely do not,” Bennett said.
Well, that was just unreasonable. Although Bennett was correct in that Kebe was sus as hell.
“And I already didn’t,” Huxley said. “Something is off about her.”
“Do you know Kebe?” Emma asked him. “Because it seems like you know each other.”
“What?” Huxley shook his head. “I’ve only ever seen her with the two of you.”
It seemed like he was telling the truth. But if I was being honest with myself, I didn’t know any of my boyfriends that well yet.
“Really?” Emma asked. “Because she was going on and on about you.”
