Coyote's Kiss by Crissy Smith Read Free Book Online

time. If he hasn’t changed it, I should be able to get us in,” Brady said quietly.
    “Oh, this is perfect,” Cole stated as he rubbed his hands together in glee. “Okay, Brady, you’re with me and Adam. Mitch and Jade, stay in the van in case someone is there.”
    The vehicle slowed so she turned to look out of the dark window. They were in a very nice neighborhood with clean streets, green lawns and very little activity. Halfway down the block, Adam pulled into a short drive.
    She was a little surprised at how beautiful the outside was. For some reason she hadn’t seen the huge tiger shifter doing yard work and maintaining a house on the weekends. “I love the landscape. I’ll have to ask him who he uses.”
    “Zak did most of the work himself. He’s still playing around a little but he has put a lot of work into his home. Even more so when he started up with Abilene,” Brady told them.
    Jade was impressed. Her own small house needed lots of work but she’d only been there for six months and hadn’t decided what she wanted to do yet. She planned to stay in Lake Worth, that was for sure, and whether it was with the FBI or the Coalition, she wanted to put down some roots.
    “Okay, we do this quickly but quietly. We need to secure the property and see if it’ll work to bring Luca back,” Cole stated. “Let’s do this.”
    Cole and Brady opened the back door as Adam climbed out of the front. With the doors closed, Jade could only watch as the three men made their way up the sidewalk. It was times like these that she wished she had Cole’s hearing.
    “Do you hear anything?” she asked Mitch.
    Mitch shook his head. “No, it’s quiet.”
    A comfortable silence settled in the van as they waited to find out if this would be a successful stop or not. The longer the three shifters were gone, the more nervous she grew.
    “So how’d you end up getting partnered with Cole?” Mitch broke the quiet.
    She glanced over at him. He leaned forward with his forearms braced on his knees, watching her. She shrugged. “I transferred here about six months ago. Cole didn’t have a partner so I took the position,” she answered. Of course, she left out all the shit that Cole had had to deal with. His old partner refusing to work with a shifter. No one else willing to take his place.
    “Did you know right away what he is?” Mitch questioned.
    “Sure,” she said. “I knew some people had issues but I had already started my research on comparing the shifter traits opposed to fully human ones. I wanted to find out how we can use the shifter gene in the field and hopefully keep agents safer.”
    “Cole was research? I bet he loved that.”
    “No,” she laughed. “He wouldn’t have allowed that. My research showed that I accepted the shifter agents and the agency wanted to partner up a shifter with a human.”
    “I bet that went over well,” Mitch stated sarcastically.
    “Yeah, I lost a lot of friends with that, but it’s true. I’ve learned more from Cole than any other agent. He has no problem with humans or shifters. If they are decent to him, he respects them. It’s the humans in charge that are causing the problems we’re having. When the boss isn’t supporting the shifter agents, the field agents know they can get away with it too. It’s wrong and I want to help people see that,” she explained.
    “Why? Most of the human agents wouldn’t bother,” Mitch pointed out.
    “I know. I had a shifter save my life once. It was before I was here but still… I just feel like I should help others like him,” she said. Jade didn’t really want to get into her past and how she’d first learned about the ability of some humans to transform. It was still painful. “I joined the FBI to help others. Now I find myself having to explain why we should work together.”
    “I haven’t heard very good things about the FBI and how they treat their shifter agents. I was surprised when they asked to join the task