Chapter 414

The plane descended in the West Virginia sky, and I prepared to get off, trying to assure myself that the feeling in the pit of my stomach was just anxiety. I hadn’t been on too many hunts away from home. Maybe I was just nervous. Or maybe it was the wedding. I was the maid of honor after all. There was just a lot going on, so I could explain away my emotions by telling myself it was something else. But the fact that I didn’t know where Holland was and hadn’t for months was a huge concern to me. At least her airplanes hadn’t moved.

We piled into twin black SUVs and headed to the bed and breakfast my mom had picked out for the team. It was nice to stay in a house instead of a hotel. The Queen Anne was one of the only places in town large enough for all of us, and my mom had made the owner an offer she couldn’t refuse to cancel her existing reservations and accommodate all of us instead. That way, we were also assured there wouldn’t be anyone