Chapter 30. The Veil, the Dead

BILLY HOTEL

The early morning sun peered through the window, lighting up Rick and Nancy’s hotel room with brilliance. Nancy has been up but Rick isn’t. He’s still fast asleep. Last night was a hell of a night of search with Dean and Eva.

Eva lost her track on Mary after Lucy stashed the tracking device into Mary’s backpack.

Suddenly, Rick’s cell phone buzzed loudly waking him up from sleep.

He rubs his bleary eyes and searches the table for his phone without even getting up.

“Hello,” he said in an incoherent voice.

All his text messages to Mary has been ignored and his call and that of Nancy always goes straight to voice mail whenever they call Mary.

“Hey, Rick. It’s me, Mia,” Mia said on the other end. “Have you heard?”

“Heard what?” Rick picked interest as he quickly dragged his tiring body up.

“The clandestine wolves,” she said. “They are going after the werewolf bloodlines and killing them one after another.”

“What?” Ri