The Full Moon Murder

tless reminder of the impossible truth

f you don't start believing

ough the hospital bandages proved that. The creature in the Red H

Voss knew

escent lights buzzed, and the scent of antiseptic bur

IV and stumbled toward the exit. Her head swam, but

night felt different-thick with so

ran down

asn't

lster as she scanned the parkin

-mov

the far end of the lot, ba

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tall and eerily still. Not the

ot a

catching the dim light. He took a slo

ver your hea

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swer. He moved-so fa

ay before she could fire. She gasped, but she didn't

ght her le

oss

nhumanly

r struggle didn't matter. "You think you're hu

g her free hand to go for th

ature-sighe

f his wrist, he sent

nt. Pain jolted through her spine,

f up, the gun shaking in he

n didn't change. "I

unded. "Then who

twitched into something res

he wa

Not running.

melted int

throbbed, her ribs ached, but nothing hurt w

n Voss. Bigger than

ust made hers

ng the

ice, piecing it together. Decker was gone,

e stranger in the

p did t

ncing everything her father had worked

he fou

persons cases. All

ked to Voss

the first cop wh

uldn't be

pread thr

was

p. She barely moved from her desk, pourin

her door ma

olding two coffee cups

e without a word, sip

owned. "Ta

im the truth, he'd think she lo

r of werewolv

d. "Is th

idn't

fell. "Wait.

sleeve. The bandages on her arm were fres

tightened. "

s gaze. "I

n them. Then, Ramirez ex

he leaned forward. "I t

and through his

nodded.

amirez straightened.

files, at the names o

this," s

they e

dim glow of his private chamber. The walls were lined with ancient books, relics of a past f

ir faces unreadable, their postures rigid

his glass before taking a slow sip.

there was an edge to it-a quiet, dangerous finality. "She kno

ed slightly. "She do

is glass down with a soft clink.

oss leaned forward, his silver

take care of

gures

nt had

ages. The pain was a dull throb, a constant reminder that everything she

the danger

desk. None of it mattered now. The murders, the cover-ups, the missing pie

or snapped her ou

his way in, his face tight with urgency.

see this," he said, dr

t up. "Wh

ngerprints. No cameras caught who left it. Bu

pped the envelope open, spill

s. Records that

from thirty years ago. A body ripped apart under the light

amuel Cross

re reports of similar attacks, all marked as "unsolved" or "wi

en't anim

werewolf

taken from inside Voss Enterprises. The image w

an V

r her father

lood turne

uttered, staring at th

r, her jaw tightening. "He didn't

missing piece. The thing th

was p

ent it? A

amirez frowned. "Who else

eople." She grabbed her gun and her b

whole life searc

she h

ing to bring D