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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helping me clean this dump,” Valarie’s voice says from behind us,

scared me; it ah–has potential,” Macey

asks,

mean,” Macey goes to say when Valarie

pretty sure if one of you jumped in that pool over there, you wouldn’t come out again, water is probably nuclear, that might actually be that

the job, I will pay on time, and anything this place needs, let me know, and I will try to order it in, but there is a catch,” she asks,

catch?” Zoe

shit for me, so if you girls have got any

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got the tool belt and tools, electrician, no idea,” Macey shrugs.

says, and we all look at her. She looks sheepish, almost apologetic. “My daughter’s father is an electrician. He is a real asshole now that he found his mate but doesn’t want 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

like you already; you tell him, darl,”

plumbing which we will figure out, I guess,” I tell everyone, and we all nod.

want to do

room, so it is livable, then we will start the others, one

to the room. We stack everything in the bathroom before tossing all furniture 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, we

over the balcony. Valarie

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these. rooms got floorboards under the carpet?

“Yeah, why?”

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

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 this room, they will only need a polish”

later and see what rooms

The girls help me 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

how many rooms total are there?” Macey asks.

I didn’t know either. I feel nervous. It took us an entire day cleaning and fixing one double room, but I

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