Shadow of the Ghoul (Halfblood Legacy Book 2) by Devin Hanson

Author:Devin Hanson [Hanson, Devin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hudson Indie Ink
Published: 2019-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Sam dropped me off at home after we had our light lunch and I went in search of Ryan. I followed my ears to the garage, where I heard him banging around and the clatter of scrap metal being thrown. I stuck my head through the door and found he had rented a U-Haul pickup truck and had pulled it directly into the garage.

“Hey!”

There was a crash of metal falling, and Ryan stuck his head out from around the truck bed. “Alex, good. You’re here.”

“Yep. Here I am. What’s up?”

“Come over here. I need someone else to witness this.”

I shrugged and walked around to the back of the truck. Ryan had nearly filled the bed of the truck with junk. There was a handful of metal scraps left over, and as I leaned on the side of the tailgate, he scooped the last of it up and threw it into the truck bed.

“Done!” I said cheerfully. “Looks good.”

Ryan tugged his gloves off and threw them onto the tailgate. He gave me a look, somewhere between irritation and worry. “For the third time.”

“Hm?”

“This is the third time I’ve loaded the truck.”

“I don’t understand.”

“I need a beer.” Ryan brushed past me and went to the kitchen.

I followed, feeling confused. “Why’d you load the truck three times? Did you need the exercise or something?”

Ryan popped the top off a beer and pounded back half of it before putting the bottle on the counter and stretching his back. “No. How was your day so far?”

I waved a hand, dismissing the question. I didn’t want to talk about my day. I wanted to know what was eating at Ryan. “Never mind that. Talk to me.”

He pulled at his beer again. “The first time I finished loading the truck, I went into the house to go to the bathroom before driving to the dump. I was on my phone, maybe ten minutes. When I got back to the garage to head out, the junk had all been returned to the floor of the garage.”

I raised my eyebrows. “Someone broke in again to prank you? Was anything stolen?”

“That’s what I thought. I checked the locks, I went through the house room by room. It was empty. There wasn’t any new damage to the circuit box, the fences, nothing. So, I went back to the garage and loaded the truck again.”

Ryan gestured at the fire axe leaning against the counter. “I brought that with me in case there was some punk waiting to jump me while I worked. Fortunately, nobody showed up. I finished loading the truck and took a walkabout to make sure everything was still secure. When I came back…”

“The truck was unloaded again.”

He nodded and killed the last of the beer. “Right in one.”

“So, you just finished loading number three… want to see if it’s still in the truck?”

Ryan’s mouth thinned and he tossed his bottle into the recycling. “Not really. But let’s go.”

I led the way back to the garage. “I didn’t hear anything.

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