Chapter 7
Driving with Kellen beside him in the fading daylight of late afternoon was no less eerie than it had been the night before. Then the dark night and empty streets had helped buffer Derek’s emotions; in the glaring sunlight slanting through his windshield, he found his own convoluted thoughts and feelings so much harder to ignore. Every now and then he would glance over at his traveling companion, only to catch Kellen staring back with a cryptic grin on his face. There was something unsettling about him, about this whole situation. Derek wanted nothing more than to get it over with and get the merrow back out of his life for good, but he suspected doing so wouldn’t be quite that simple.
Derek rolled down his window all the way, hoping to air out the car’s fishy interior. Kellen
