Chapter Seventeen

We spent the next few hours drinking wine and playing cards.  I’d never played rummy, but I found myself to be quite good at it.  I enjoyed Kenzie’s frustration over what she called ‘beginner’s luck’ so much that I actually forgot where I was or that the moon was full and I was technically in danger.  It wasn’t until Snow stood at attention and snarled that it all came rushing back to me.

I froze in dumb terror as I watched Kenzie slam her cards on the kitchen table where we’d been playing and push herself off of the chair.  Moving with rapid stealth, she went to the window and peered out from behind the closed curtains.

“I don’t see anyone,” she said in a hushed tone.

Finally regaining my wits, I raced to Noah’s bedroom to get a view of the back part of the house.  The bright moonlight made visibility easy as I scoped the landscape through the bedroom window.  I was