Chapter 24: S2 Cole: Someone's Having Sex

Cole Cotter

The bar, generic and off-beat, reeks of lycans.

Brown carpet, stained with food and drinks, runs the length of the floor below the grooved

counter. Cole sits on a wooden stool, nursing the beer in his hand.

The overhead television flickers. Glancing up, he peers at the screen then turns away,

uninterested in the basketball game that's in overtime.

On the wall behind the bar, a clock reads eleven-thirty. It's still early.

Down in the pit, in the lower section of the bar next to the live band, Tessa Johansson

serves drinks. The table she's at is full of lycans from the Kweo clan - his inner wolf can smell

them.

Most of the faces are unfamiliar, but one stands out, Chad Sawyer. And from the looks of

things, he's been drinking for a while. Alcohol and Chad are never a good combination in any

setting because the man can't hold his liquor. But here at the bar, with a group of his brethren,