#Chapter 130: The Pact

Kayla Gray and his two cohorts lay side by side in the hole we’d dug. They were wrapped in sheets and placed six feet underground, a good half mile away from the cabin. If it weren’t for the unfortunate circumstances, today might have been a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and the temperature was fairly balmy. If only. But now, the nine of us were standing in front of a hole with three bodies in it. We had spent the morning taking shifts digging the hole. The ground had been frozen, making it hard work, and now the sun had reached its zenith in the sky. “It’s better this way,” Jade said with a firm nod as we all stared down at the three bundles. “He was a bad man.” I glanced first at her, then up at Nicholas. He wasn’t looking at me, nor at the bodies, but rather at the swaying treetops overhead. His brow was shimmering with a faint sheen of sweat, and his chest was heaving slightly from the exertion. Dead. Gr