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the opening seconds of any
fight, but she didn't know where we were headed any more than I did.
    "Turn left
and keep the speed casual."
    Alec's order
was so quiet that only our unnaturally keen hearing allowed us to
catch it. It was yet another benefit of being a shape shifter, a
valuable one considering how much effort we had to go to in order to
keep our existence secret from the humans. It was nice to be able to
talk to each other and have people standing next to us not know what
was going on.
    Jess set out at
a slow walk down the sun-drenched sidewalk. It was all I could do to
stop myself from staring at the metal briefcase handcuffed to Alec's
wrist. He hadn't actually ever come clean with regards to just how
much money he'd stolen from his dad, but I knew it was several
billion at least. I wasn't sure I could have calmly walked down a
busy street with that much money dangling out as a lure to anyone who
felt like trying to improve their position in life by way of a good
old fashioned mugging.
    "Cross the
street at the next corner. Go into that parking garage up ahead."
    James cleared
his throat. "Alec, I think we've got someone following us."
    "Yeah, I
saw them two blocks ago. The black van, right?"
    "If you
saw them, then why are you leading us into a mostly abandoned parking
structure? That's practically asking to be attacked."
    My response had
slipped out with more of an edge than I'd meant for it to have.
Despite what my beast sometimes liked to think, I knew I wasn't any
kind of match for Alec, but apparently I was feeling some pre-game
jitters. I'd been up against vampires, jaguars, and even a werewolf,
but I'd never faced off with a van full of humans.
    Normal humans
weren't usually much of a threat, but if they were as heavily armed
as I was suspecting, then they'd still be dangerous. A semiautomatic
shotgun didn't need a direct hit to knock a wolf out of the fight.
Alec and James could generally shake off a single bullet or a load of
buckshot, but we wolves were less sturdy. Besides, being able to
withstand one shot wasn't worth a whole lot if someone shot you
repeatedly before you could close with them.
    "Someone
tried to read my mind back in the bank. I'm betting it was one of the
bank employees."
    "I thought
that only two people in the entire bank had access to your account
information."
    Luckily Alec
seemed more amused by my nerves than anything else. It was nice when
my big mouth didn't land me in more hot water for a change.
    "That's
right, there are only two people with that kind of access, but I'm
sure every bank employee knows that something big is going on when
the three most senior people in the office all take a client down to
the vault."
    Jess looked
even more scared than I was as she led us across the road, but James
just nodded in understanding. "So once they know that they've
got a potential target, they just pull the information they need out
of the client's mind."
    "Yeah, or
failing that they could probably get what they need out of Mr. Ford
or one of the other two."
    I wanted to
lick my lips, but that was a nervous tic that I'd worked hard to
conquer. I wasn't about to give into that particular idiosyncrasy
now. I looked over at the black van as I followed Alec across the
road, but I kept the gesture relaxed.
    "So we're
probably dealing with more vampires. The worst case would be what,
eight or nine of them?"
    Alec reached
forward and steered Jessica slightly off to one side as we all made
it up onto the sidewalk.
    "Yeah, but
I don't expect them to be quite that paranoid. Unless the ringleader
got more out of my mind than I think he did, they won't know that
we're anything other than normal kids. Hopefully there won't be more
than four or five of them."
    James actually
perked up a little at the prospect of a fight. "What about the
mentalist, do you think we're going to be up against him too? What if
he's not even the one in charge of this little field trip?"
    "I suspect
that the mentalist will