Unnatural Allies by Edward Kendrick

Author:Edward Kendrick [Kendrick, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Sand awoke a few minutes before noon on Tuesday. Once he was dressed, in the clothes he’d had on the previous day, he went into the kitchen to see if there was anything in Andre’s fridge that he could use to make breakfast. There wasn’t, which didn’t surprise him, so he pictured a stand of trees in a park close to a restaurant he liked and teleported, landing on a thick branch of one of the larger ones. He was glad he had, as there was a woman walking her dog right below him. He waited for them to leave before dropping to the ground to stroll casually away in the other direction.

He ate a big breakfast while debating what to do to kill the afternoon until Andre woke up. Digging into his pocket for his phone to check what movies were playing, he remembered it was in Thorin’s safe at the club—and why. That brought everything he was trying not to think about flooding back.

If Estebe doesn’t call, then what? We could try to track him down, I suppose, but finding him…He shook his head. “Call, call, call,” he whispered prayerfully.

“Girlfriend?”

Startled, Sand looked up to see the waitress standing there.

“Yeah. She said she’d let me know if we were still on for tonight,” Sand improvised.

“So call her.”

“I should, I guess.” He shrugged and asked for the check. She returned with it moments later, he paid, and left, returning to the park. Tense, and needing to alleviate it, he began running the path that circled the edge of the park, dodging the mothers pushing strollers and older couples out for their daily constitutionals. When he passed a pair of runners and heard one of them say, “Is he trying to break the land speed record?” he chuckled and slowed down. Bring what he was; even in his human form he could out-race anyone else with ease.

Finally, hot and sweaty, he decided it was time to return to Andre’s place. But not until I get some clean clothes. He found a safe spot where he wouldn’t be seen, and teleported to his house, landing in the bathroom. One sniff told him he’d had company, although they were gone, now, as the smell of another werewolf was very faint.

He did a cautious search of the house to make certain whoever had been there, and he was certain it had to have been Estebe, hadn’t left any surprises behind. Deeming it safe, he got his backpack from the closet, filled it with clean clothes, and teleported to Andre’s condo.

* * * *

“I had company,” Sand said as soon as Andre woke up.

“Company?” It took Andre a moment to realize what he meant. “You went back to your place?”

“I needed clothes,” Sand replied. “Luckily, I guess, whoever had been there was gone.”

“Estebe?” Andre asked, moving to sit on the edge of the bed beside Sand.

“Probably. I don’t remember his scent after all these years, but that would be my guess. It was definitely a werewolf.

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