Marlene had been observing for some time.
Using the exceptional skills she had honed as a demon hunter, she was able to track Hela without being discovered and even garnered some important information.
Hela's adoptive father—Mr. Hewitt, seemed to be away from home lately.
That was good.
No need for unnecessary harm.
And when he returned, his despair would not be so great. His daughter was merely missing, not a wicked Shape-shifter Beast, nor was she whisked away by strangers, never to be seen again.
Hope wasn't a bad thing to have.
However, lately, a new person had appeared by Hela's side.
Nellie Leicester, granddaughter of Marquis Taylor, a student at Worton University — oddly avoiding her studies to spend each day with a little girl.
Perhaps Hela had sensed something amiss, which is why, as a Shape-shifter Beast, she instinctively attracted the marquis's granddaughter as her perceived source of security.
