Chapter 103: Athos

I have no intention of sticking around this piss ant town. But I plan to come back to it. – Athos

There was a horrible sound that was intruding on his sleep. The cause of this sound must suffer. Slowly. Painfully. Ink rolled over and picked up the phone and answered without looking at the screen. He gave a very groggy grunt as a greeting. Whoever was calling him this early, better have damned good reason.

“Ink, it’s Isiah.”

Three words.

That’s all it took to wake him up. Three simple words that let him know something was wrong. A damned good reason.

“What’s wrong?” he sat up in the empty bed and tried to remember why Evie wasn’t there. Teacher in-service training. School would start in a few weeks. They had training today and she and Law were going to paint her classroom tomorrow.

“Where’s my daughter?” the man demanded and Ink heard engines revving up.

“Teacher in-service at the high school.” He got out of bed and headed for the closet.

“What about Tank? And Law?” some of the eng