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“Yeah? What’s going on?”
The officer yanked open the thin door and stepped in as Quincy backpedaled. Startled myself by the sudden aggression, I quickly got in close behind him, ready to get in front and protect him if necessary.
“Stand down!” the officer shouted. “You’re both under arrest!”
CHAPTER 11
QUINCY
Standing inside my jail cell, I grinned across the way to where Ram stood inside his. “You take me to all the cool places I’ve never been before.”
He blew out a breath through his nose as he gave me some side-eye. The officers had left him his pants and his boots, but taken everything else from him. I’d threatened them with lawsuits and bad press if they dared remove the sleeve on his regrowing arm, calling it a medical device and comparing it to my prosthetic leg. Would they take that from me? I honestly had no idea if they could legally take those things from either of us, but it sounded good and had made them leave it on him.
Ram had insisted on being allowed to contact the Norlon ship, and I had demanded my phone call, but no one had followed through on either yet. In fact, no one had come back here since they’d left us.
Looking at the bars of my cell, I wasn’t too disturbed by all of this. Maybe I’d broken a law or two, but I’d get community service at most. Coogan was the one up shit’s creek for everything he’d done, and if this was his doing as well, he’d rot in prison for the rest of his natural life—I’d see to that. And I hadto believe that someone would take a look at why we were here and see that it was a giant mistake.
For one thing, Ram wasn’t even a citizen. Could they hold him at all? And not just because he wasn’t subject to our laws but because he could probably break out without that much effort. Maybe humans should know a little bit more about the warriors they were dealing with so they might think twice about fucking with them.
“I bet you could break out of here easy.”
The tiniest little smile lifted the corner of Ram’s lips.
I chuckled. “You’ve already worked out at least two ways to escape.”
He shrugged one shoulder before gripping a bar in front of him. The sound of protesting metal practically echoed through the area, and damn if he didn’t bow the bar a couple of inches. He hadn’t even appeared to strain to do it and he’d only used one arm.
I laughed so hard that I had to hold onto my own bars to stay on my feet. If he could do that, he could probably just lean on his cell door and pop it right open. A forceful sneeze might take out the camera down the corridor. Could his claws dig through concrete?
I should probably tell him to bend the bar back into place, but fuck it. Let them see and wonder what kind of a mistake they’d made by locking up my mate.
After I’d gotten ahold of myself, I realized Ram’s expression had turned mournful. I sobered right up and asked, “Hey, what’s wrong?”
“I do not like being separated from you,” he grumbled.
He was just so sweet. “We’ll be okay. Somebody will come down, sort it all out, and let us go. I mean, by law, they have to give us a phone call each. If yours is to thefully-armed space ship hovering above us, well, that’s on them.”
Ram huffed a laugh. I had no way of knowing whether the ship had any kind of armaments given that it was a diplomatic one, but if I didn’t know, I bet the Akron PD didn’t either. It wouldn’t even have to get to that, though, since the arrival of a few members of Ram’s team and a ticked off wolf prince would no doubt make at least one person piss themselves.
“If we don’t return to the ship on time,” I asked, “what happens?”
“If we don’t call for a shuttle by tomorrow afternoon, they’ll try to contact me. When I don’t respond—since they confiscated all of my equipment—they’ll send a team down to search for me. They know where you live and will investigate our disappearance. Eventually, I’m sure, they’ll make contact with local authorities and discover that we are here.” He grinned in a way that showed off his teeth like a threat. “Then Prince Ye Lena will get involved.”
I rubbed my hands together, feeling a little giddy. “I’m guessing he’s scary as hell when he’s mad.”
Ram chuckled in a dark way. “He can drop the temperature in a room by ten degrees with a single look.”
I thrust my hands in the air in victory and turned away to settle on the cot, leaning against the wall and getting comfortable. “This is going to be awesome. I mean, seriously, this isn’t going to end well for anyone but us.”
“If Coogan is behind our arrests, it will only damage him more than he already was.” Ram leaned against his bars and sighed. “I don’t know human laws, but abducting a member of a foreign dignitary’s security team, holding him against his will, assaulting him, and falsely accusing him of crimes cannot possibly result in anything that will benefitCoogan’s cause.”
Ram might not know human laws but he’d named all the good ones.
“Just the fact that you can identify him is enough to prosecute, I’m sure,” I said. “The lawyers aren’t going to have to work too hard on this case. Coogan’s sewn it up tight for them.”
“Not having witnesses should help then,” Murray said as he came around the corner.
Fucking fuck. He was dressed in his uniform, so of course no one had tried to stop him from coming back here. Why would they even pause to wonder, right? Everyone would assume he was on the up and up while dressed like that.
