Chapter 37: Epilogue

Morning sunlight flowed in through the wide windows warming the huge kitchen. Six Night Seekers plus Dakota sat around the table enjoying a relaxing breakfast. It was the first really easy meal they'd enjoyed in days. Even the wedding dinner Craig Stafford had hosted for Jonah and Dakota had been tinged with anxiety as they waited for the final results of the autopsy. They'd all been flown to the remote lab where the beast had been taken, all had the chance to see it in the flesh, all turned away, revolted by the sight. But at least they could now move on.

Dakota had thought they should wait to marry until everything was wrapped up, but Jonah was like a maniac, as if waiting one minute longer would cause her to change her mind.

"Fat chance," she'd told him, but he was insistent.