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“Should we take a horse, bring back Mel?”
Jase shook his head. “Let’s see what’s going on first.”
Probably a good idea. Kind of hard to handle a horse and a—
What? An invisible Aztec sorcerer who had somehow survived thousands of years and was now on a rampage?
She kept that thought to herself, but she left the horses behind.
Gina and Jase followed the boot tracks for maybe a hundred yards before Jase stopped and said, “Shit.” There also seemed to be a lot of that going around. Then he glanced to the left, the right, behind them, head swiveling faster and more frantically with every turn.
“Lose something?”
“The other body.”
Gina blinked, opened her mouth, shut it, tilted her head, and— “You sure?”
“Would you quit asking me that?”
“If you’d quit saying things that make me.”
Jase turned in a slow circle, gaze scanning the ground. “It was right there.” He pointed to a spot directly in front of them. A spot the tracks seemed to be headed right for.
Neither one of them spoke; they followed the trail, which ended at a big circle of dark in the dirt. Even in the waning moonlight, Gina knew blood when she saw it.
“And you’re certain Mel was dead?”
Jase didn’t even bother to answer. Really, from the amount of blood, he just had to be.
“Whoever snatched Ashleigh must have come over here and snatched Mel, too,” Jase said.
“I’d agree with you, except for one thing.”
“What?”
Gina pointed to the other side of the big, dark splotch. “There are two sets of tracks.”
A sudden howl, followed quickly by another, brought their heads up. What they saw brought Jase’s gun up, too.
The horizon had just begun to lighten with the first hint of dawn, illuminating the silhouettes of two wolves, snouts lifted to serenade the dying moon.
“You see that?” Jase murmured.
“Uh-huh.” Gina even blinked a few times, but they didn’t go away.
“Explains a few things.”
“It does?” In her opinion, the wolves only brought up more questions.
“They tore out Ashleigh’s and Mel’s throats.”
“Wolves don’t do that,” Gina said.
“I bet these do.”
Gina didn’t answer, because she bet they did, too.
They had two dead people with their throats torn out by an animal—something that had never happened here before. Then they saw two animals of a type that had never been seen here before.
