chapter 57

Kian lifts his head and levels an irritated glare at me. “You got a better idea?”

“You know I don’t,” I shoot back.

He bares his teeth at me. “That’s what I thought.”

And just like that, the little bit of warmth I had for him after he tended my wounds fades.

Fucker.

Just before three, we help ourselves to some supplies from the house, then head out to get started on the questioning.

It’s not my favorite plan, but like Kian so eloquently pointed out, it’s our only plan.

There isn’t much to the downtown area. It’s a larger place than the nowhere-ville that Erik lived in, but it’s not as big as Oscura. We park our bikes in a small grocery store parking lot then take off on foot, but it becomes clear pretty fast that there isn’t a lot of foot traffic on the sidewalks.

“If all else fails,” Kian says, “we could go into some of the shops.”

Frost holds up a hand, shaking his head “Cameras. We’d get caught on record.”

Kian rolls his eyes. “You think any place in this podunk town has security c