Chapter 39

Chapter 39.

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"Huh?" Cole inquired, pretending to be deaf.

Cole was in her way, blocking her approach to the storage door, and the low growl and rumbling had ceased.

"Did you not hear that? I think there's something in your apartment; we need to go check it out," she said, reflexively wiping the blood off her fingers on her trousers and moving toward the storage, but Cole remained in the way, obstructing her passage.

"Do you mean my apartment?" That is something I seriously doubt. I didn't hear anything," he stated.

"It sounded more like an animal-like... like, I don't know, but I think something is in this apartment," she insisted.

"Come on, Cole. Do you have your firearm with you?"

"What? A firearm simply for an animal? Come on, Claudia," he sneered, but she wasn't having it.

"That must be the dog of one of the next-door neighbors. It isn't something you must do__"

"That doesn't sound at all like a dog! And it wasn't from the next-door neighbor, but from right here in this apartment