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The poind lifting Cia’s hair settled slowly, the dark red strands falling around her shoulders, which slumped Her eyes filled with tears as she caether "Ohhhdaelina was our responsibility, but we let Jane handle it We were cowards It was our job and welet Jane" Cia took a slow breath, Lizthe action Liz could almost see the moon poaver across the circle between them "We let her kill our sister for us"
Cia lifted a hand and pointed at the hedge of thorns ward, saying, "Ní mór fós i bhfeidhm," which was Irish Gaelic for "Must remain in place"
Liz felt the power of the round and the e of thorns ward in place Her sister’s casual use of poorking beneath theBut this ti about this place," Cia said, rubbing her upper arainst the chill
"Yeah This was too easy"
"We actually transported a vampire and her victim out of her lair and into our circle with a si up at the black sky, "but I’ood"
"Me neither" They had until sunrise to figure out what to do At sunrise the vamp would burn to death And fro dead
Thoughtfully, Cia closed the outer circle, and the talked to the car
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Back at the Subaru, they had a good signal and Liz dialed Jane on her cell Cia went to work on her tablet, researching the property they were on to see if she could discover why the power levels were so strong
"Yellowrock," she answered
"It’s Liz" Jane didn’t say anything Jane didn’t sayat the best of times, and this couldn’t be one of them "I knoe need to talk about Evie, and about family and aboutstuff, and all, but, well, Cia and I were hired to do a finding spell for awoman, who turned out to have been kidnapped in the ic spell, and noe have a psychotic va hue of thorns spell on the side of a hed "Why is this funny?" Liz de" Which was ht have said
"Fine You have any advice?"
"Yeah Send your GPS to my cell Stay put Asheville’s heir and I’ll be there as fast as we can"
"Liz? Don’t hang up," Cia said, holding her hand out for the phone Liz passed it to her, and Cia said, "Jane, we’re on a site that used to be called Mayhens, about a hundred twenty years ago That didn’t seeic was a lot more powerful than it should have been So I went back online to the history site and discovered that there was this big mystery about the town in the 1890s The toas fine one day By the next week, all the inhabitants had disappeared Which is weird, right?"
Liz heard Jane grunt an affiruerreotypes on the site and one shows the er--pardon the pun--for the vampire trapped in our circle"
"Hold" The cell ed and they were clearly on speakerphone Jane asked, "How did you get directed to that mountain?"
"By a Christian Louboutin boot, a five-inch spike-heeled black suede with fringe down the back seaht boot, and it was left in thewoman’s apartment," Liz said
"Huh And how do you know the spell that took her was a blood cereic charain A moment later Jane caet out of the car Do not go back to the circle Send me the coordinates We’ll be there as fast as we can"
The connection ended, and Liz sent the directions before putting her phone away Outside, the black of night was filled with shifting shadows and a pale gray fog "Did the vaht as to coo? And why?"
"I don’t know, but I have a feeling it has soht" Cia reached over and took her sister’s hand
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