All the Inside Howling (Hollow Folk #2)(132)

And it was impossible. The girl from the airplane, the girl with the curly hair, was dead. I’d never seen her, but I’d heard her name a hundred times. She had disappeared the year before I arrived in Vehpese, vanished during a camping trip with her boyfriend, a boy I knew very well: Emmett Bradley. She had been Luke Witkowski’s—no, Mr. Big Empty’s—first kill. Only she hadn’t been, because I had just watched her arrive in Vehpese.

“Makayla Price is alive,” I said, unable to control the shock in my voice.

“She’s alive,” Lawayne agreed, “she’s working for the Biondi, and if I’m right, she’s here to kill you.”

Somewhere to the east, in the breaklands that led towards the Bighorns, I heard a distant howling.