........... Reece ........... "Dad?" I call my father, finally unable to take his pacing up and down anymore. He’s been doing it for more than fifteen minutes now. Ever since we came back from Hudson’s, he’s said nothing. We had lunch when we got here, but he didn’t even touch his food. This thing with Hudson has him stressed. "No," I hear him say as he settles on the sofa next to me, and I grab the TV remote and turn down the volume. "It can’t be; he can’t be. Hudson was the best. Gunner trusted him with his life. If you are telling me that he knew about the beasts all along and he was somehow involved, that would mean that he sent Gunner and Gerardo to a trap," he says, and I nod since that’s what I think. After Dad discovered that Hudson was alive, he thought it was because he was

