My cell rang.
I fished through my purse and glanced down at the screen.
Moira.
“Not a good time,” I growled.
“Shut up and listen,” she said urgently.
I stilled.
“Police are crawling all over the shop. They’re looking for you. Caelan is speaking with them.”
“How do you know?” I stopped at a red light and let my eyes flutter shut.
“I’m watching from the shadows. This is bad, Evie. Really bad.”
“We’ll deal with it.” My words sounded garbled. The fangs. I hated the fangs.
“How?” Moira whispered.
“We’ll talk tomorrow. Can you have Ash call the repairman out? The window needs repairing tonight if he can. The entire thing is shattered.” I cursed under my breath when I realized I’d left those plants out. If anyone touched them…
A flash of darkness streaked by the window. I whipped my head around but saw nothing.
“Evie?”
“I promise we’ll deal with it.”
“Caelan is gone, but the police are leaving.” She exhaled a heavy breath. “I’m not sure what he did, but he might have saved our asses.” Moira paused. “Or condemned us.”
I let out a half-hysterical laugh. “We’ll see if I’m still alive tomorrow.”
“Evie.”
“I have to go. Tell Ash and Tess to take the day off. You too.”
Moira sighed. “I love you. Do you need me to come?”
“No!” I pinched the space between my brows. “I’m sorry. No. I’m okay. Just rattled.”
“I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Moira—”
“No arguing.” She hung up before I could do just that.
The ride home was agonizing. I should go to the hospital simply to have someone pick the countless shards of glass from my skin I couldn’t reach, but it would bring too many questions. My body had already healed over the smaller ones.
I thought about calling Moira back, but it was late, and all I wanted was to be alone. The drive home wasn’t far, but it felt like hours. When I finally dragged myself into the house, I went straight to the bathroom. I’d get what glass I could reach and worry about the rest tomorrow.
Moira always wanted to help. Maybe I could get her to pick the rest of the glass from my skin.
Freshly showered and with most of the glass gone, I sat down on the edge of the bed and took my first deep breath since Caelan flew into my shop. He’d taken me by surprise, and I wasn’t sure why I was surprised by that.
“I need to get out more,” I muttered through enormous fangs. The only social outings I had were with Moira, Ash, and Tess. Assuming I’d known how Caelan would behave was profoundly dumb of me.
And now I had a destroyed shop and a pissed off Shifter Lord on my tail.
