Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

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Not long after the truck leaves my car in the parking lot, I wait for the girls on the curb. Zoe gets out of the taxi first as it

stops beside me. Zoe pays for the cab, and I help her grab her stuff from the trunk.

“I never knew this place was here,” she says, looking up at the vast hotel, “kinda creepy, it looks haunted,” she adds, and I chuckle. “Anyway, I am so glad to see you again. I have been so excited I barely slept a wink last night.” She gives me a big hug.

“So, is this everything?” I ask her, looking down at the stroller and duffle bag.

“Yep, that’s everything, our life in a bag. Pathetic, isn’t it?”

“No, see that piece of scrap metal,” I tell her, pointing at my busted wagon. She nods her head.

“That was home sweet home,” I tell her, and she laughs. “Seriously, as for baby stuff, don’t even worry about it. Valarie went on a shopping spree. The room is packed with

everything, baby. So much so we may have to sleep outside to fit it all in the room,” I tell her.

“What, really? How long have you known Valarie?” she asks.

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“Met her yesterday. She is lovely. I have never met anyone like her before,” I tell Zoe, and she smiles just as a green Daihatsu charade pulls up next to us, honking its horn a few times.

“Thanks, bro,” Macey says, punching her brother in the shoulder and climbing out before tapping the roof.

“Hi, girls,” her brother calls out, and we both wave to the stranger.

“Fuck off, Blake, stop hitting on my friends. They aren’t interested,” Macey scolds her brother as he waves to us. Macey flips him off, and he laughs, driving off down the road.

“Sorry about him. He is a sleaze, so try to stay away from him unless you want another baby,” Macey chuckles, shaking her head.

“Noted,” I tell her, and she quickly hugs us. She had on short shorts and a cut–off shirt showing her belly button, her hair pulled in a bun, and a pair of boots that she said she

borrowed from her brother, as well as a tool belt around her hips.

“Brother is a handyman,” she tells us when she catches both of us looking at it.

“So this is it, huh, damn, this place is a dump,” Macey says as we stand in the parking lot, looking up at the building. The bones are good mostly, but she was right; it was definitely a

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clean this dump,” Valarie’s

it ah–has potential,” Macey says

asks, her

goes to say when

I may be getting older, girlie, but I ain’t blind yet, pretty sure if one of you jumped in that pool over there, you wouldn’t come out again, water is probably nuclear, that might

place needs, let me know, and I will try to order it in,

the catch?” Zoe asks.

or handyman, even a plumber out here in over ten years. My mate ruined that shit for me, so if you girls have got any friends that are good with that crap, let me know. If not, we will figure it out ourselves,” Valarie tells them. That was going to be hard trying to source help and an electrician

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tool belt and tools,

her to find out he already has a kid. So I will threaten to tell her; he either helps when I ask or finds someone that will, chances are he will probably find someone else, but I know he will do it,” Zoe says, confidence returning to

you already; you tell him,

I guess,” I

what do you want to do first?”

it is livable, then we will start the others, one at a time, and list everything Valarie

over the balcony into the skip bin Valarie had dropped off. Valarie watches the kids in her studio while we get out the supplies. Armed and ready,

Val,” Macey calls over the balcony. Valarie must have

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she starts talking again. “Have all these. rooms got floorboards under the carpet? I was expecting concrete.”

“Yeah, why?”

down at the exposed floorboards, in perfect condition, and just needed

in good condition in this room, if the rest are the same you will save a fortune by rubbing them back and staining them, but if they are like

will check the others later and see what

carry the beds and mattresses up when the truck arrived, and the rest of the day was spent scrubbing it from floor to ceiling. While working, Valarie brings us drinks and sandwiches at lunchtime, but we are all stuffed and collapsed on Valarie’s

many rooms total are

didn’t know either. I feel nervous. It took us an entire day

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