Patterson was in Ferdinand's residence again for another session to satiate Larissa. He’d initially planned to only do it just so he could leak out this affair, but now, he came with something else in mind - wanting to find out if Larissa knew anything else about Catrine Carter, perhaps even Monica Upshaw and the recent attacks on hunters headquarters. 

What he couldn’t comprehend was what the perpetrator could hope to gain from these strikes. The hunters were a large part of the defense systems, too. Soldiers alone weren’t enough. Why did it feel like they were being exterminated? There were no casualties from the parking lot explosion, fortunately. The...