Chapter 12

Bruce and I stood at the end of the rutted dirt path that passed for a road in the empty clearing.  There was just enough room for Garth to position Bruce’s SUV in front of the opening in a group of boulders.  We were thankful we’d decided to use his SUV instead of the rental car.  All eyes were on Magdalena as she touched the boulders to get a sense of where they might have gone from there, but the trail just stopped.

“I can’t get a sense of where she is anymore. She isn’t sending any more telepathic messages to Elsa... I don’t know,” she sighed.

“How about you,” Bruce said as he looked at Garth. “Can you pick up their scent?”

“A little, but not enough to follow,” Garth muttered.

Garth was angry with the situation. Never before had he been outsmarted by a vampire.  The fact that they were mutant-vampires made it even worse.

Bruce pressed his nose agai