When a woman moves into the sleepy town, it rouses everyone's tongues to start wagging. She is strange and distant in her manner. Tia Frost is blissfully unaware of the townsfolk's discomfort with her. With Burt at her side, she wonders about the wo...
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They both stood there no recollection on their faces. I sighed lowering the gun. "Passwords?" I looked at Maverick and shook my head.
"No not passwords, insults. If either of you showed the slightest idea what I was talking about you'd both be dead."
That made Maverick frown. "But you know I wouldn't hurt you, Tia." He said softly.
"Have you learnt nothing from that book?"
I sat on the bed and Maverick took a small step watching me. Does he think I'll point the gun at him again? I suppose that's fair. I did just tell him I would have shot him.
"Would someone explain what's going on here and why the boy is sitting facing the wall?" The chief's voice still shook with what had just happened.
"I told him to face the wall and wear the ear defenders in case I had to shoot you." Maverick walked up to Tobin and gave him two taps on the shoulder with one finger.
So he did pick it up! Very interesting. He worked out my puzzles and is a quick study, maybe with his help, we could get out of this alive.
Tobin turned at the touch and saw Maverick and the chief. He turned to me and signed. Safe? I made the triangle and he sighed. I signed to him to take Ted, and his blanket and hide in the wardrobe. He complied and I turned back to the chief, who had regained some of his bluster and stood with his arms crossed.
"You didn't answer the first question."
I rubbed the stock of the gun in my lap. "In the most simple terms, I upset some very nasty people and they are after me."
Maverick sat on the floor near the stairs gun in his hands watching the darkness below. The chief shook his head. "I need all of it, Miss Frost. There's very little stopping me from cuffing you and taking you in for pointing a gun at me, if not for anything else."
I made a point of stroking the gun. "Very little!"
Maverick chuckled at my sarcasm. "You think this is funny mac?"
"Under the circumstances yes. The forest is full of bodies and someone out there has killed two of the search and rescue team, that we know of. I know it's not Tia doing that and you want to arrest her for pointing a gun at you. Yer that's funny."
The chief shook his head. "How could you know it's not her?"
"I was with her when one of them got killed. I heard one of the people after her, kill one of the team, then they talked to each other They have some kind of vendetta against Tia."
The chief sat on the floor with a sigh. "I still need something about who these people are and what they are capable of."
"They are cultists, they are the cult of the wolf. They believe that all humans are wild animals and that civilization is a mistake. Anyone not in the cult is a tamed beast and needs culling. That's what we are dealing with here. Once they have chosen a target they will hunt it until they corner it and then they kill it."
