CHAPTER 20Despite Abby showing extraordinary control over herself, the number of hunters who passed her lab tripled after that, and all of them cut themselves—the little hunter still among them. He’d even gathered a band of teens to torment her. But Harriet and her friends and team all roused on them when she saw them. Finally: a hunter was being responsible. But the little hunter just returned when Elliot and Nina were on duty, and made inappropriate comments at her while shedding his own blood. “You think she’s massaging you,” he said one night to Trent, “but she thinks she’s tenderising you.” Trent jumped up and went to the door. “It’s past your bedtime, kid.” He shut the door, locking the little hunter outside. “But it’ll never be past hers!” he shouted from the other side. “She

