Chapter 12: Scented

"Kalyssa?"

The voice was somewhere... close. But I couldn't quite make out who it belonged to. It was as if I were hovering somewhere just out of my body, just out of reach.

"Kalyssa, honey. Can you hear me?"

Yes, it was Elias.

Then everything came rushing back. The clinic. Maria. Macy. The horror that had quickly become my life.

I opened my eyes, and I was laying in the back of a van, and Elias was sitting by my side. "Where am I?"

"We're still at the clinic. Just wrapping things up," Xander said, sitting to my left. "How are you feeling? You scared the tar out of us."

"I'm fine." I sat up and held my head. It was pounding. "But my head hurts."

"Boss," Cruz said, taking a few steps closer.

Xander let out a deep breath and turned to face him. "What did you find?"

"Well, we found a shell casing," Cruz said. "It's not much to go on, but maybe they can lift a print from it." He held it up and saw a small metal object in a plastic bag.

"I doubt it, but at least it's something." Xander si