FOURTEEN YEARS AGO
PUPPET MASTER POV
It takes minutes for the house to be broken into, the windows smashed. They will flush her out soon.
I stretch back in the snow, propping my head up with one arm, examining my nails.
Two women and a man come outside, flushed by my pets. That one woman, the hunter, has a knife that easily cuts through the flesh of any Immortui. The other female fights alongside the male, working together to overpower any that come for them.
The clouds have almost cleared when I smell it.
Bingo. Time to move.
I push from the ground, ignoring the snow that clings to me.
They are running from the back of the house towards the treeline. I can easily walk through the c*****e, but I take a longer route.
No point being seen. It doesn't matter that they won't live t
