Vampire King's Little Killer - 30. To the Den

Den: the lair of a wild usually predatory animal.

Nero

Tessa should be finished with her job by now, maybe she was already on her way back to my apartment. I was not worried, because I have eyes on her. When Aldrich came to see me at the den, I was supposed to go back to the penthouse in less than an hour so I could spend time with Tessa before she ends her day and goes to sleep.

"Tell me, what did you find?"

"Writings on her wall," Aldrich said, giving me his tablet with a picture of her wall. "It was spray painted red the writing read, forty-five days. Her room was ruined, all spray-painted red in random chaos. Someone really hated her."

My anger flared seconds after seeing her personal belongings trashed, and her personal space violated. I need more from my best guard, and when he told me that the wolf scent was not familiar I almost lost it. "I thought you brought in your wolf friend, what did he say?"

"Exactly that," Aldrich said, "the scent was not familiar, he said the w