Page 57 of Taming the Beasts

“We’ve been pretty much inseparable since we were kids,” Ace said. “We grew up on the same street. Went to the same schools. Started this business together. Bennett, Otto, and Titan are just as much my brothers as Huxley is.”

I’d been so worried about what would change. I hadn’t really let myself think that everything might end up being exactly the same. “I was a little worried you’d all want your own girlfriends.”

“I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty happy just like this,” Huxley said.

I loved how warm his arm felt around me.

“And we don’t want to be with anyone else,” Ace said. “We all like you.”

It didn’t 100 percent mean Otto, Bennett, and Titan would feel the same. I already figured Ace and Huxley liked to share. But…maybe all the guys would agree. Maybe nothing had to change. I was smiling so hard it actually hurt.

The three of us turned off Main Street.

“Anything else we should know about Kebe?” Huxley asked.

“Not really. She’s a bit of a drifter. And I think she might be able to make cameras glitch somehow.”

“What do you mean?” Ace asked.

“When she fled last night I tried to find her on my security system.” Actually, Grudge had tried to find her on the security systems of the stores on Main Street. But again, that was a conversation for later. “And she kind of just disappeared from the feed.”

Ace and Huxley looked at each other over my head.

“What?” I asked.

“No one can just disappear,” Huxley said.

“Exactly. Which is why it was a glitch. But it happened twice. So it seems like maybe she was causing them somehow?”

“I meant that nohumancan just disappear,” Huxley said.

Emma and I had already talked about this. “But invisibility is just like a made up superhero thing, right?”

“Not necessarily,” Ace said. He stopped outside my white picket fence and stepped in front of me. He looked at Huxley. I’d never seen Ace look so concerned. “She may not have disappeared,” he said. “She could have just been really quick. So quick the cameras couldn’t pick it up.”

Like super speed?That was still a superhero thing…

“It would explain what we’ve all been feeling.” Huxley stared at my front door like he thought my house was possessed by the devil. “You said Kebe came to town three days ago?”

I nodded.

Ace shook his head like he was trying to ward off the evil. “I know this feeling,” he said and looked at Huxley.

Huxley kept staring at the door. And then he slowly nodded.

“What is it?” I asked. The two of them were freaking me out.

“It’s similar to how we felt when Callum moved to town,” Huxley said. “Just this…pit of unease in my stomach. And I feel really on edge.”

“On high alert,” Ace added. “We’ve felt it ever since Callum arrived. I think that’s why it’s been hard to distinguish something else here.”

Oh shit.

Huxley lowered his eyebrows. “But it’s different now. It’s…worse.”

“Way worse,” Ace said.

Shit, shit, shit!