Page 78 of Moody as a Minotaur

The professor was not so calm. He was shouting and moaning and crying. Perhaps he’d broken a few bones when Levi tossed him to the ground. Levi didn’t seem to care. He spun the professor onto his stomach and held him down with his hooved foot on the man’s back.

“Fuck,” I muttered. “Levi? Are you okay? Did he shoot you?”

Levi grunted. “I don’t think there were bullets in that gun.”

“Thank fuck.” I swallowed hard and felt a little dizzy as relief washed through me. That could have been so much worse…

Kyle groaned. I glanced down at him. Blood was still seeping out of his wound.

Oh God, I’d shot someone. Kyle hadn’t even been armed. There would be a police inquiry. And how the hell would I navigate an interrogation when I couldn’t talk candidly about supernatural beings?

“We need to call for help.” I didn’t want to face what was coming next. But what choice did I have?

No one volunteered to do that.

The man who’d been fighting to get his bear shifter girlfriend free from the hunters when the pipe burst was pulling her toward the steps with an exit sign hanging over it. She’d shifted back, as had the others, but she wasn’t moving, no matter how much he tugged on her arm. “Come on, Christa. We gotta get out of here.”

“Hold on, Gord,” Christa said.

Before they could run, Nelson arrived at the top of the stairs with a handful of people I didn’t know. His gaze swept over the area as he barked orders into his phone. He pointed at Gord and said, “Stay there.”

Surprisingly, Gord did as commanded.

Nelson pulled out a couple of zip ties and gave them to his sidekicks, who pushed Levi and I out of the way. They secured Kyle’s and the professor’s arms behind their backs. Kyle whimpered, but the professor was a lot more vocal until someone gagged him.

“When things went to shit, Teague called in reinforcements,” Nelson explained. “These folks are with campus security, but they have connections with the SC. They’re supes. They’re going to take care of this mess for us, because they had their heads up their asses and didn’t catch on that they had a whole contingent of hunters on their turf.”

One of the security guards ducked his head, but another snarled.

“Yeah, yeah. I don’t care. This was your fuck up and you know it,” Nelson said. “And check their phones. Make sure they didn’t get word out to their asshole associates.”

“We need to get out of here,” Levi said. “They must be right behind us.”

“No,” Kyle said on a panting breath. He was pale and sweaty from pain. “The other doors in that room are closer to an exit. The rest of them went out that way instead.”

I was surprised he offered even that much information. Since no one had come running after us, I suspected he was telling the truth, which made me wonder why he’d come this way.

“There’s a video feed,” Levi said, already moving on to his next concern. “The professor used it to watch us come in. Can we kill it?”

“Yeah. I heard that through the comms. It’s been dealt with,” Nelson said.

“What about the human police?” I asked.

Nelson shook his head. “Humans harming supes falls under SC jurisdiction.”

“What’ll happen to them?” I pointed at Kyle and Professor Boyle. Then I noticed I had Kyle’s blood on my hands.

I itched to wipe them off, wash them,something.But I didn’t have anything except my clothes. I shoved my hands in my pockets. Hopefully we could get to our car without being stopped so no one would see them. At least it was dark out now. That would work in our favor.

“It’s up to the SC.” Nelson shrugged. “They’ll live, but they might wish they hadn’t. We don’t take too kindly to hunters.”

I winced. Yeah. I could imagine. I didn’t like what these people had planned to do, but I still didn’t want them tortured or executed. The supes could call me a snowflake. Whatever. I’d been called worse.

One of the campus security guards approached us with a couple of phones.

Nelson narrowed his eyes at the woman. “What?”

“No messages. No calls in the last half hour,” she said.