Chapter Twenty-One

Martin returned to Alison’s home with a heavy heart.  He’d spent the night searching for Vanessa in all the places he thought she might go to, but with no luck. Now, he had the burden of having to tell her that her friend didn’t go back to their old apartment, as she’d thought.  She was sure to be worried and upset.  These weren’t good things to be when one was making their first shift into shadow land.

It was late afternoon on the night of the new moon when he knocked on her front door.  When he got no response, he walked around to the back of the house and knocked on the kitchen door.

Again, nothing,  

He tried the handle, found the door unlocked, and walked inside.

Standing perfectly still, he listened for signs of life in the house.  He could hear the faint sounds of love making coming from upstairs.  It didn’t take a rocket scientist to decipher that it was Alison and Alfred