The property felt wrong after the warehouse and the silence bothered me more than the gunfire had. Usually the clearing stayed loud with engines and music and drunk girls laughing too hard around the firepit. But now most of the noise had disappeared and tension sat over everything like smoke that refused to clear. The parties had stopped almost completely while half the girls who used to hang around the club had vanished the second blood started spilling close to home. The few that still showed up kept quieter now and stayed close to the guys they came with and even they looked uncomfortable everytime somebody mentioned Raze’s name. Nobody felt untouchable anymore. I stepped out onto the porch just after sunset while the cold air brushed against my skin and movement caught my atte

