ernest stared down at the chomping teeth and outstretched arms reaching for him . he locked up and zoomed in for a closer look , grateful as hell for the technology that allowed him to see as much on a pitch-black night as anyone else saw in broad daylight . she wrapped her arms and legs around his body and moved against him , and the experience was more than wren could have dreamed . that it was all just some harmless business arrangement . she looked back at alison , who smiled at her with a knowing warm light in her eye . 