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knowledgeable, he said, “What I can’t figure
out is how you knew I decapitated one of those skinwalkers. Was it
blood splatter patterns again?”
    “ No,” Kiera said, looking straight ahead.
    “ What then?” Murphy frowned.
    “ You left its freaking head behind,” Kiera said, striding
ahead, back towards the van.
    Murphy
stopped in his tracks and watched her go, his mouth open
wide.
    I
couldn’t help but secretly smile to myself.

Chapter Five
     
    Kiera
     
    I scrambled over the wall and dropped down onto the other
side. I couldn’t explain where Kayla and Sam had suddenly
disappeared to, and that troubled me. It frustrated me. What wasn’t
I seeing ? As far
as I could tell, there was nothing left to see once those tracks
had come to a sudden halt. It really was like Kayla, Sam, and this
other female had just vanished into thin air. Had this something to
do with the layers that Jack had mentioned?
    Both
Potter and Murphy leapt over the wall behind me, their feet
thudding onto the hard-packed snow. I glanced back at them; both
were dressed in black police-issue coats. They both looked worn and
beat up. Potter’s bruises had almost faded away as his body quickly
healed from the beating he had taken out in the field. Had he
received such punishment coming to recue me? The thought made me
feel sorry for him. But I didn’t want to feel like that. Not yet –
I was still too hurt, angry, and confused.
    Potter
caught me looking at him, and raising an eyebrow, he said,
“What?”
    “ Nothing,” I whispered, turning away and sliding open the van
door.
    Potter
brushed past me as I climbed inside, his hand deliberately coming
to rest against my thigh. As he went, he leaned in close to me and
whispered, “You may hate me, sweet-cheeks, but you just can’t stop
looking at me.”
    “ Dream on,” I muttered under my breath, yanking the van door
closed in his face. I caught sight of Potter smirking to himself as
he climbed into the seat next to Murphy. I so badly wanted to wipe
that smile from his arrogant looking face. I clenched my fists and
sat on them.
    “ Looks like we’ve got company,” Murphy suddenly said from the
front of the van.
    I
glanced up to see a car heading down the narrow lane towards us.
Although it was just black in colour, we knew it was an unmarked
police car, because of the removable blue light attached to the
roof. “Real cops or Skin-walkers?” I breathed.
    “ Either way, we’re fucked,” Potter said. “It isn’t going to
take them too long to figure out we’re the ones who ripped up their
friends back here yesterday. I knew it was a bad idea coming back
to this field.”
    “ You never said,” I reminded him.
    “ Would you have listened?” Potter remarked, glancing over his
shoulder at me.
    “ Let me do the talking,” Murphy said, swinging open the van
door once more and climbing out.
    Leaning
forward in my seat, I watched Murphy stand in front of the van. The
other police vehicle crawled slowly down the track, its thick tyres
throwing up snow and slush. I peered ahead and could see four cops
wedged into the unmarked patrol car.
    “ There’s four of them,” I told Potter.
    Without
saying anything back, Potter pushed open the van door and climbed
out.
    “ Where are you going?” I hissed. “Murphy said to leave it up to
him.”
    Potter slammed the door shut and joined Murphy in front of the
van. Here we go again, I thought to myself, sliding open the van door and jumping
out. I joined Murphy and Potter as the car came to a juddering halt
in the snow. Murphy and Potter gave each other one quick, knowing
look. It was like they had some kind of telepathic link. But
despite their constant bickering and sniping at each other, they
were a team – a partnership. Both were able to anticipate the
other’s next move and both had each other’s back. It seemed that no
father and son or any two brothers had the loyalty these two men
showed one another when they were in trouble. Their