Page 110 of One Last Chance

Levi came out to their table. “Can I get you guys something?” He wore a Northstar Pizza shirt, a pair of jeans.

“You waiting tables today?” Sully asked.

“Yeah. We’re busy, and we’re short. Parker didn’t show up for work.”

Huh. “A small pepperoni for us.” He looked at Flynn to confirm.

She nodded.

Us.He reached across the table and took her hand and didn’t care what anyone thought.

Sully and Jericho ordered, and Levi promised drinks and left them.

Axel turned to Sully. “So, I saw your uncle in town. I thought your fishing trip was over.”

“It was—he left but came back with Jer, here.”

“Uncle Wilson is a big contributor to the K-9 school. We use his ranchland for some of our training activities.”

“He lives in Montana?” Flynn asked.

Jericho nodded as Levi showed up with the drinks, put them on the table. Levi’s phone rang, and he pulled it out as he walked away. Axel unsheathed his straw as Flynn turned to Jericho.

“Where in Montana?”

“Near Silver City, north of Helena. It’s where my dad grew up.”

She looked at Axel, back to Jericho. “The Silver City Wolverines?”

Axel stared at her, and heaven help him, he was even starting to think like her. “Did he play football?”

“Absolutely. His team won the state championship when he was a senior. Dad was a sophomore. We heard the story so many times—they had three overtimes, and the entire town came to watch them play in Bozeman. They all got tattoos afterward—except Dad. He wasn’t old enough. But Uncle Wilson has one.”

“A wolf,” said Flynn.

“He’s not the only one,” Jericho said. “Remember Idaho? He had one too.”

“You do know he was arrested, right? He’s in jail.”

Jericho frowned. “No, he’s not. I saw him maybe a month ago. At Uncle Wilson’s place.”

Sully’s eyebrows rose. “He’s free?”

“Not allowed back in Alaska, but you know Idaho.”

Sully shook his head. “I never liked him. He hunted on Remington land illegally. And took others there too. Came by the house once when I wasn’t there. Kennedy said that he and one of his hunters came in and took food. She was shaken up.” He took a sip of his soda. “I ever see him again, I’ll run him out of Alaska myself.”

Flynn took all of that in without a word. Now stared past him, toward the tent.

Axel leaned forward. “Are we going on stakeout again?”

She gave a half smile and pulled out her phone. “Stand by for further instructions.”

He laughed. But his smile dimmed as Levi came up to the table. He held a pizza and set it on the table but something . . . he almost looked stricken. “You okay, Levi?”

Levi stared at Axel for a beat, then drew in a breath. Shook his head. “Not sure. I just got word from Deke that Parker’s car was found on the highway, near the Bowie road.”

Axel looked at Flynn and saw the horror written on her face even as she said it, soft, a realization that struck him cold. “He’s back. The Midnight Sun Killer . . . he’s back.”

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