Page 522 of Chaos has a Name
What in the hillbilly bullshit was that about?
Charlie raised her redneck, in a small-ass Southern town, but they weren’t that redneck.
It was love thy neighbor, not eat your brother.
Well, she’d never understand it.
That was for damn sure.
They also found the rest of Thomas Adsila. He was packaged up to be sent home with the two brothers as parting gifts. He was wrapped up in butcher paper—like Sunday’s roast in a chest freezer.
Not far away on a shelf?
The book that The Hollow kept with all of the names. They could have made it more difficult, but they didn’t. That told her they didn’t expect to lose.
Oops.
Her bad.
Wyler had been right. His two friends had been killed, and eaten by Tom Redbear years ago.
Oh, speaking of Wyler…
For the next day, there was hella paperwork for her, and a lecture for Wyler for not staying in the cabin—by Ivan. Every time the Marine saw him, he lectured him.
And he got the point.
The woods wereNOTanyone’s friend, really. There were things in there that they couldn’t explain.
Like that howl.
For shits and giggles, Elizabeth asked MATE to figure out what had made it, and she’d come back with a shocking conclusion.
There was nothing in her database that was conclusively matched to that sound.
MATE tagged it unknown, and that just made Elizabeth even happier to get the hell out of there. Like Ivan said…thank God they weren’t going to be there for Halloween. That would be one hell of a nightmare.
Call it a hunch.
Luckily, they would be back in DC with everyone they showed up with.
So, it all worked out.
When she got to work the day after the melee in the trees, to do the paperwork, Ian met her there with everything handled.
One of her Marines was heading out.
She’d called Michael in to sit him down and show him what was going on back home.
Because she didn’t lie to family.
He needed to know how dangerous it was to be there and that Riley Cunningham, a man he’d planned on marrying at one point, was a stalker.
He didn’t hesitate to leave.
Bless him.
She was maxed out with stubborn men, and horrible surprises. One more, and she was seeing Callie’s therapy.
