Tanya tensed at once, a flash of ferocity appearing in her eyes.

Ray only smiled faintly. "Look at the world we're living in now. Killing someone isn't really that shocking anymore—I'm just curious."

Geronimo hadn't lied about most of it. Indeed, most of the hotel staff had frozen to death outside. Their bodies bore no obvious wounds and were now buried beneath the snow.

But Ray had noticed seven corpses that were clearly different. They were injured—fatally so. They hadn't died from the cold