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on the ground, then straightened with something in her hand. “So I grabbed some clothes. You can’t be seen like that, cuz.”
    Myles took the jeans in his mouth and moved off to a secluded spot. He dropped the jeans and let the transformation back into his human body begin. It was always easier to revert back into human form than to shift into a wolf. He gritted his teeth as bones, tendons, and muscles returned to their true form.  
    Myles was panting, sweat covering his body when he pushed up on his hands and looked around to make sure no one had seen him. Then he stood and pulled on the jeans before walking barefoot back to Riley.
    She smiled brightly, holding out a red shirt and a pair of brown leather flip-flops. “We can’t have you walking around barefoot.   You don’t know what you could step on. And the shirt is a necessity. If women caught sight of you, you’d never make it back to the bar.”
    He chuckled and put on the shirt. As he slid his feet in the shoes, he cut his eyes to Riley. “Let’s get back to the bar.”
    “I suppose you have questions?”
    Myles waited for her to get the bag before he started walking. “Yep. I won’t be the only one.”
    “I knew you were out there,” Riley grumbled.
    “Was Delphine really there?”
    Riley nodded. “I heard about her from Ava, but I wasn’t expecting to feel the evil of Delphine so strongly. It was like she was the center of it all.”
    Myles put his arm around Riley and pulled her against him. “You shouldn’t have had to face her alone the first time. Shit. Your brothers are going to have my head.”
    “She knew who I was without even knowing my name,” Riley said and rested her head on his shoulders.
    They walked the rest of the way to the bar in silence. Riley was tough. She had to be as a Chiasson, but she had been doing things herself for so long that she desperately wanted someone to take some of the load off her shoulders. She just didn’t comprehend that yet.
    Myles walked them through the back of the building. As soon as they entered the kitchen, she pulled away, pushed her shoulders back and lifted her chin. Whether she knew it or not, she acted as she if she were going into battle, and in some ways she was – the battle for herself.
    He stopped when he entered the front of the bar and spotted Court, Solomon, and Kane sitting with Marcus. Marcus was the only other person at the bar who knew what they truly were, and only because it had been Solomon who saved his life ten years earlier when a demon tried to possess Marcus as a teenager.
    Marcus ran a hand over his bald head and met Myles’s gaze. “Delphine was here for Addison.”

CHAPTER SEVEN

    Hours later, Myles lay in his bed with his arm behind his head staring at the ceiling. He was supposed to be sleeping, but his mind kept going over everything Marcus and Riley had told him about Delphine’s visit and the fortune teller who spoke to Addison.
    What was it about Addison that was drawing the eye of every faction of supernatural in the city? As far as Myles knew, she was a normal, every day southern girl. Obviously, he was wrong.
    He rose and took a quick shower, not bothering to shave. He threw on a fresh pair of jeans, a black shirt, and boots before he made his way out of his apartment.
    That was something the LaRues did differently than the Chiassons. They didn’t all live in the same house. Solomon still lived in the LaRue house on the outskirts of New Orleans on the bayou. It was a grand place that was too big for one man, but Myles, Court, and Kane opted to reside in New Orleans, each of them taking a section close to each other but still allowing them to keep an eye on things within the factions.
    Myles’s place was an old warehouse he’d bought six years before and converted into large studio apartments. He owned a car but rarely drove it since he lived close enough to Gator Bait to walk.
    He pulled his keys out as he reached the bar. Just as he was about to