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was sort of a policeman?”
    Tessa nodded.
    “What I meant was I am a council enforcer which is basically shifter police. It is my job to catch rogues and keep humans from finding out the truth about us. It’s my job to protect you and Nico and keep you safe. I have wanted to tell you so bad to keep you from thinking you weren’t safe here.”
    Tessa leaned into Mitch’s side. Everything he told her was a lot to take in, and she still had hundreds of questions floating in her head that she wanted to ask him. Her stomach decided to growl at that moment, and Tessa was glad. She wanted their conversation to continue, but she needed a moment to absorb what he had already told her. There was another whole world out there that existed right alongside hers, and humans were walking around without a clue. It was enough to make a person go insane just thinking about it.
    “Come on.” Mitch stood and pulled her up with him. “I set you some lunch aside. We can finish talking while you eat.”
    She followed him into the kitchen and sat at the table while Mitch warmed her lunch in the microwave. Tessa stayed silent just thinking about everything he had already told her. She believed him about there being good and bad shifters. Most humans weren’t exactly model citizens, so she had no room to judge his race. Is race the right word, or should I say species? Either way, Mitch couldn’t expect her to be politically correct at the moment.
    As she began to eat the food he sat in front of her, something Mitch said popped in her head. “You said it was part of your job to keep shifters a secret from humans, right?” After he nodded his head, she continued, “Will you get in trouble for telling me all of this?” The thought of him being hurt or worse because he shared too much information with her made her stomach turn.
    “No, as long as you don’t go running to the media or shouting it in the streets that shifters exist, then we should be fine.”
    Tessa laughed. “It’s not like anyone would beli—” She paused when her statement made her remember the woman in the park. Things were suddenly starting to make sense. “Mitch, what happened to the woman’s body in the park? Who moved it, and how did they get the area clean so fast?”
    Mitch grimaced. “We have shifters working as human police to be lookouts. When you called the police and told them what you saw, certain things you said caused your report to get flagged as potentially being shifter related. A containment unit was sent out to check the scene. If it hadn’t been shifter related, they wouldn’t have touched it and let the human police handle it when they arrived. In your case, it was a rogue attack so the scene was cleaned and the body removed. I’m sorry it made you feel like you had gone crazy, but it’s just one of the ways we keep our secret.”
    “Believe it or not, I understand. If the police had actually seen what I had reported, it wouldn’t have been a secret for long. Reporters would have been all over the place, and conspiracy theories would have started flying.”
    Mitch just stared, and Tessa began to get self-conscious. When the silence got too much for her, she asked, “What, did I say something wrong?”
    “No, nothing is wrong.” Mitch smiled. “It’s just that, after everything you’ve been through, you’re taking everything I just told you surprisingly well. I guess I’m just waiting for it all to sink in and for you to go grab Nico and run out of here screaming.”
    Tessa laughed. “I won’t run. You actually have no idea what a relief it is to hear all of this. It means I’m not crazy. I thought last night was a relief just to have you listen to me and not think I was psycho, but to know you actually believed me is something else.”
    It was the truth. What she had seen that night actually made sense now that Mitch had filled in the blanks for her. He had opened her eyes to more possibilities than she had ever considered