Elijah POV
"The population was nearly twenty-five-hundred.”
Bella trips over her feet, nearly faceplanting into the dirt. Even I know that’s not normal. This town is virtually nonexistent out here in the middle of nowhere. One has to know someone to find this place it's so tucked away.
“No wonder he's so concerned,” Apollo says. I can't help but agree.
“That’s … why … wha— over two thousand?!” She finally grits out, and William, who has finally stopped moving, turns to meet her gaze head on, nods so solemnly I can feel it to my toes.
This is not good.
“That is not all either,” he sighs. And isn’t that everyone’s favorite sentence.
“What else?” Bella whispers, though, I get the feeling a part of her doesn’t want to know.
“There have been many … disappearances,” he tells us w
