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Blair
The moment I laid eyes on the Devil’s Falls sign, a weird feeling washed over me. As Elias began to pull the car down the dirt road that led us into the town, it almost felt like a shadow fell over the car, darkening everything around us – including my mood.
It might have sounded crazy, but it almost felt like we were stuck in an episode of Supernatural. This feeling of dread had taken over me.
A random thought rose in the back of my mind then. It was a thought that made a shiver creep down my spine.
We’re not all going to make it out of this town alive.
I tried to push the thought away, deciding that I was only being paranoid. It was probably just because of how creepy this town was.
Of course, the reality was that it probably wasn’t any creepier than any other town. Aside from its name. Devil’s Falls sounded creepy, but there were plenty of towns with creepy names. That didn’t mean they had ghosts in them or anything like that.
Besides, we were arriving here in the middle of the night. Of course it wasn’t going to be all rainbows and flowers. Even if there were rainbows and flowers out there, we wouldn’t have been able to see them, since, hello, there was no sun!
But the silence that had taken over the car and just one glance at Elias’s face in the rearview mirror told me that I wasn’t the only one who was freaked out by Devil’s Falls. I was pretty sure everyone else was thinking the exact same thing as I was.
What had Mila’s vision gotten us into?
“Do you think there will even be a hotel with enough vacancies for all of us?” I asked out loud. “We are traveling in high numbers.”
“You’re cute, Blair.” Elias’s dark eyes flicked to meet mine in the rearview mirror. “This town has no hotels.”
“What do you mean it has no hotels? Every town – even the smallest town ever – has some rundown motel or inn or something,” I insisted.
“Not this one.” His eyes shifted back to the road. “This town doesn’t even have residents.”
“What type of town doesn’t have residents?” Camryn asked with wide eyes.
“The type that Mila’s visions lead us to, clearly,” Bash said with a bitter tone from his place in the front seat.
Mila sighed. “It’s not like I choose my visions. They just come to me.”
“Well, this vision better amount to something,” Bash replied. “Otherwise, there’s a very good chance that we might lose Jax forever.”
“We won’t lose Jax forever,” she insisted, though I couldn’t help but think that she didn’t sound entirely certain about that.
“So, if there are no hotels, then where are we supposed to sleep tonight?” I asked.
“No one said we were going to be here for very long,” Camryn pointed out.
“Um, actually, we might be,” Mila said quietly.
“Really?” Camryn glanced over at her.
Mila shot an apologetic look in her direction. “I think so.”
“Great. So, in that case, where are we sleeping?” Camryn asked Elias.
“Are any of you even tired right now?” he asked. “We’re werewolves. We don’t need to sleep like humans do, remember?”
“Not all of us are werewolves,” I lied in a fake, pointed tone. His eyes met mine in the rearview mirror again, and I could tell that he knew exactly what I was doing. “So, yes, I am tired. This girl needs her beauty sleep.”
“I guess we’ll have to build a campsite then,” Elias replied.
I was about to tell him that I didn’t do camping – only glamping – and that he’d better have an air mattress, at the very least, if he was expecting for me to sleep outside.
But before I had the chance to say anything, he put the car in park and then turned to the rest of us. “You guys stay in the car, okay? Lock the doors. I’m going to go check the area out.”
“We can go with you,” Camryn insisted.
“No. You will all stay here. Do not come after me.” His eyes moved from hers to Mila’s to Bash’s and then lingered on mine. “Do you understand?”
I nodded. He didn’t need to tell me twice. The last time I had followed after someone when I wasn’t supposed to, it had resulted in me getting bitten by a werewolf. I wasn’t about to make that same mistake again.