Cheer up.

ALEXAKIS

"Didn't you say that you saw him around here?! How many days has it been now?!" I yelled into the phone. I had been searching the vicinity where the informant allegedly claimed that he last saw Nathaniel. After hours of endless and fruitless searching, I was not so sure that the person had not played any trick on me.

"Yes, he was last spotted there before he went under the radar." The informant told me.

I was pissed off by the fact that he kept repeating the same thing no matter how many times I asked. But then again, I couldn't entirely claim that he was lying, seeing as my brother was one man who was clever. If he somehow managed to find a way of breaking free from the dungeon despite the protective wolfsbane bars that were supposed to keep him in place, then hiding away would not be a hard task for him.

"Forget it," I muttered to the man. "Good job." That said, I clicked the phone off.

I slowly made my way back to the house. I met Claire sitting on the sofa, waiting for