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change for the better. That somehow, I would meet my knight in shining armor and I wouldn’t be lonely anymore.” She shook her head. “It’s all a myth, but, like me, you have to find that out for yourself.”
    She turned her gaze to Mac and Gareth. “I’ll go with you, but I am handing your things over to the desk clerk. I’m also taking your photos and leaving my phone at the diner with the waitress with the instruction to give my phone and your photos to the police. I might be crazy to listen to you guys, but I’m not stupid.” She pulled her cell phone from her pocket. “Now, how do you take those masks off?”
     

Chapter Eight
     
     
    Mac stared at her, his mouth dropping open. “I—uh—that’s the thing. We can’t take them off.” He glanced at the others for help.
    What the hell were they supposed to do now? They could shift their faces back to their human shape and appearance, but they couldn’t do it here. It would most likely send the women from them, screaming. If it didn’t run, they were likely to faint dead away at their feet.
    At that point, they would have no choice but to carry them back to their rooms, which would effectively break their promise of allowing them the choice and their safety measures.
    “Bull crap. They’re masks, so they can be removed.” Jessi’s brows lifted. “That is, unless you’re refusing to remove them. If so, I don’t have any compunction about leaving the four of you here to twiddle your collective thumbs. I’m not stupid and I’m not a pushover…usually. So, you can forget any kind of cooperation from me without removing those masks so we can take a picture. How do we know that you guys aren’t refusing to remove your masks because you have the desk clerk at the hotel in your pocket?”
    “I knew there was a reason I was drawn to you,” Mac said with a grin. He pulled his phone from his pocket. “I have a lot of photos on my phone of Gareth and me. Some selfies we took to send to post to our social media sites as we travelled. What if we give the waitress my phone?” He handed his phone to her. “There’s even a picture of the hotel and of the two of us in the room.”
    “That will do.” Jessi took the phone and glanced back at the other two who shrugged and pulled their phones from their pockets. She glanced through their pictures, most likely noting that there were photos of all four men between the four phones.
    Frowning, she looked at the photos. “You guys really take your costumes seriously.” She showed the phone to Kelly. “Look at that one. If I didn’t know better, I’d say that was really a tiger’s ears on that guy.” She glanced at the men. “When we’re done talking, I want to know where you guys get such realistic costumes.”
    “And where do you live where the guys are all so gorgeous?” Kelly added with a low whistle. She glanced up at Zach and Derek with a low, “Meowrr…”
    “When we’re done talking, you’ll know all of that. We promise you.” Zach grinned at Kelly, giving her a quick wink.
    “Okay, then, gentlemen.” She held up the phones. “I’m going to take these back into the restaurant and give them to the waitress for safe keeping. She won’t release them to anyone but me, if I have my way in the matter.”
    Jessi disappeared through the doorway. Mac couldn’t hear what she said to the woman through the thick glass. He might have been able to if the traffic had come to a stop in the small town, but time moved on and people had things to do, even in a small town.
    He ignored the others, watching as she talked to the waitress, handed the phones over with a nod and turned to leave the diner.
    She paused ever so slightly when their gazes met, as though wondering if she’d made the right decision. She had, but there was no way for her to know that, at the moment.
    Whatever they planned to tell her, it had to be good, to convince the woman to stay with them when she knew nothing about them.