Chapter Forty two

Damon's POV

Not here." Samael yelled from where he was several meters away from us.

Shit. That means we had to turn back because there was no use going ahead since he had already told us nothing was here.

This is the third fruitless search we had undertaken this week after we uncovered some leads.

I had to dodge a twig before it came back to smack me in the face. The sound of dead and dry leaves crunching under our feet was the only sound I heard for hours as we all made our way back to where we had abandoned the vehicle in haste to get here. My men's faces were drawn with disappointment as we were all highly hopeful that this might be the one. I told them some little ones had been taken and we needed to invest all our time and energy in unmasking the culprits and getting to the button of this. I thought about telling them the truth but decided against it. We were already in a fragile period at the moment, I didn't want to cause more friction but I suspected some of them already knew.