Chapter Twenty-Nine
Memories
***Damon***
The stillness of the evening air was eerie and icy as if the world had come to a standstill around me. The night sky was a canvas of darkness, shrouding the world in a veil of dark secrets. I stood at the edge of the dense forest of trees and listened. I could hear the faint rustling of leaves in the distance, the signs of life in the surrounding darkness. I sniffed the air, catching the unmistakable musky scent of wild creatures as they scurried about. Another scent filtered through the trees, the one that hinted at the vile suspect I had been tracking since the call had come through about a kidnapping twenty hours earlier. I’m in the right area!
Behind me, the police car’s red and blue lights flickered one last time before they ceased, and
