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Cash switched to the seat in the back and Kade got in behind the wheel, and they were off.

To where?

She had no clue.

Her entire life had been ripped out from under her, and she was in shock, perhaps.

The guys were acting like this was totally normal. Cash was talking to someone on the phone in the back, and Kade was surfing radio stations, and she was just sitting in this freefall, her mind going in a million different directions. And her animal…her animal…she must’ve been broken or something because all she kept whispering through her head on repeat was,Can you feel him?

Yeah.

Yeah, Jess could feel him.

Kade had felt big years ago, but now?

Now, Kade was a different animal altogether.

Chapter Four

“You look scared.”

The words shook Jess out of her mind, and she dragged her attention away from the window. Outside, Kade was pacing in front of his truck, looking agitated, talking on the phone. She couldn’t hear a single word from here, even with her sensitive hearing. It was like he knew her range.

Cash was sitting across the table at the diner. It was all red bench seats and checkered floors, and hamburger baskets. Her appetite was non-existent right now, so she’d just been sitting here staring at that stranger out the window. She uncrossed her arms from her chest and rested her elbows on the table and began ripping up the napkin in front of her. “I don’t know what I’m going to do. I suppose you can just drop me here.”

“I can go back and get your car for you.”

“I don’t have a car. I worked at the same place as my sister-in-law. I always hitched a ride with her or borrowed her car when she had a day off. The grocery store was right outside the neighborhood, and within walking distance. I made it all right.”

Cash relaxed back against the seat cushion and watched Kade out the window. “He had a plan. I bet he’s got a plan for getting you back on your feet. He’s dependable.”

She huffed a laugh. God, what a joke.

“That’s funny?”

“How did he get out of Cold Foot Prison?” she asked.

“Escaped. Well, more specifically, we were yanked out of there by Damon Daye. The blue dragon hand-picked him.”

“Why?” she asked. Oh, everyone knew who Damon Daye was. He was royalty in the shifter world, and the biggest advocate for her people. If he had come off his throne long enough to yank Kade out of shifter prison? Well, that was probably a curious story indeed.

Cash shrugged. “So far, the reasons he pulled each of us out have revealed themselves slowly. And those reasons have strengthened our Crew.”

“He’s in a Crew?”

“Cold Foot Crew.”

She nodded slowly. Jess had never heard of it. “Is he climbing ranks?”

“No. Doesn’t seem to want to. He’s just…good.”

She frowned at Cash. “He’s good?”

“Yeah.”

“Do you know what he did?”

Cash shook his head. “I never asked. I figured he will tell us when he’s ready.”