About To Be Known [Book 3]

Shady Lady

Notes:

I don't really have much to say for the notes of the next two chapters because I'm posting them all at once. I was debating, though, if I should separate them and post them sparsely throughout the month. But then I felt kind of bad for making you guys wait for like 2 months, so I just decided to post them all at once. I always tell myself that I should wait, and if I do ever write an excess, I should periodically post them so that I'm not leaving you guys waiting for months. But then whenever I write in excess, I'm just so excited to post it, but I just post all of it.

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Stiles POV:

One hour later, in a car ride......

Lydia and I were eating sushi in the backseats while Rei was napping in the passenger seat, and Damon was driving us to the coordinates that I had put into the GPS in the car. It actually surprisingly wasn't that far away from Beacon Hills, but when I looked at the map, the only thing I could see was a forest. So it kind of made me trust the lady a little bit more because maybe she really did live in a remote area where there was no post office because, as far as all the maps say, there was nothing there. Well, that was my original thought until we saw a very dilapidated town sign, it said: Welcome to Canaan.

There were houses all over the place; it looked like a town that was just abandoned. The vegetation was overgrown everywhere, and there was not a soul in sight. Everything was looking even more sketchy than I had originally thought. The moment I saw the welcome to town sign, a Google search for the name Canaan, and surprisingly enough, I got a hit. Well, I got a hit from 30 years ago.

Apparently, there was a town very close to Beacon Hills called Canaan, but after the last map was printed 30 years ago, it was never printed on a map ever again. Hence the town didn't exist anymore. Things were getting more and more suspicious by the second, but we were already here, and it wasn't that far of a drive, maybe like an hour and a half, so we just continued on.

"I'm not the only one getting creeped out, right?" Lydia says, looking around after we stepped out of the car since we arrived at the coordinates.

"No, no, this is fucking weird," I say, also looking around for someone.

Rei was looking around with a weird look on his face.

"What?" I ask.

"We're not alone," Rei says, looking around.

"Yeah, I can see you, lady," Damon says loudly to an older woman staring from a window across the street.

Everyone's eyes shift to her in a second. Then, finally, she just smiled and walked out of her house.

"Sorry, I was just being cautious. You outnumber me." She said, stepping closer.

I frowned; it seemed normal; I mean, other than the freaky abandoned town surrounding us, everything seems to be going okay for now.

"Which one is Stiles?" She asked after she got a few feet from us.

I raised my hand,

"Me. Where's the book?" I asked.

But instead of answering, she just looked at me kind of weirdly but then smiled again and held her hand out.

"Money."

I took out the $550 and placed it in her hand. I was a little reluctant to let it go, but the book was worth it to me. It would solve all of my problems quickly.

She creepily smelled the money and then counted it. Before she put it in her pocket and walked back to her house. About halfway down the little cobblestone walkway, she turned around and beckoned us to come forward and follow her.