Chapter 806 Closing The Net

• They had designed the snare carefully: lure Annie into the open, release Annabeth as conspicuous bait, and wait. Annabeth had never specified which tools they could or couldn't use. Now the fish tugged on the line; all that remained was to haul it in tight.
• Following Annabeth's trail, Annie's car bounced down a cracked country road and into a stretch of abandoned scrubland, broken only by a knot of wind-bent saplings.
• Her brow furrowed. Though she had hunted countless targets, this woman unsettled her in ways she could not name.