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Bones fell asleep during the car ride back to the cabin He slept all through the night while I stripped both houses of everything that s that had hidden the symbols for the ritual that split Hazael into several different parts The others were glad to help in this endeavor, and before dawn broke, the only evidence that Wraith had ever been here was the sheet-draped portrait of the Duke of Rutland and a box containing the Russell ancestral records Wraith&039;s remains were buried on the lower section of the hill,spell etched onto it It was the best way I knew to ensure he rested in peace

Ian and I also answered everyone&039;s questions as to how their possessions had been possible, and why he, I, and Denise had remained unscathed We left out only one detail, but I aiting for Bones to wake up before going into that I showed offtattoo, since it was on ain Though the chances of any other possessed-hu havoc in our line were incalculably sli tattoos in everyone&039;s near future Better safe than sorry

Then, shortly after dawn, I fell into bed next to my husband Bones didn&039;tsome part of him are of my presence even if the rest of him was out cold I didn&039;t expect hi at least, so I was startled when, only a few hours later, I awoke to the sound of Bones&039;s raised voice

"explain how you could have kept such a thing from me!"

Uh-oh I hurried downstairs to find Annette seated on the couch with Bones pacing in front of her She was in a nightgown and he still wore the same salt-stiffened clothes he&039;d fallen asleep in, so Bones ed her out of bed Considering the topic, I couldn&039;t blame hier stabbed the air near her as he spoke "You knew because you turned him into a vampire, else the demon in Wraith couldn&039;t have split off into you first So I ask again why you never revealed this to me in the two hundred and twenty years that we&039;ve known each other!"

Noasn&039;t the only one awakened by Bones&039;s strident voice Ian cas behind Spade and Denise&039;s door Kira and Mencheres were in the other cabin, but if Bones kept this up, he&039;d wake them, too

Annette took in a deep breath, a spas her features "Because while I was still human, I swore an oath that I would never tell you about your father&039;s faaze was harder than flint "Who did you swear this oath to? Who was this person you valuedI&039;ve ever done for you?"

She met his stare "She was Lucille, your mother&039;s half-cousinand the rew up in"

My eyes widened According to what Bones had told o, Lucille was also the person responsible for hiolo when he was seventeen

"His second cousin was a she-pimp for both Bones and his mother?" I asked Annette in disbelief

"You make it sound so crude," Annette muttered "You have no idea what it was like to be impoverished in the seventeen hundreds There was no welfare, no food stamps, and no opportunities When Penelope&039;s father took the Duke of Rutland&039;s money and then turned her out into the street, Lucille was the only one who took her in Could she help it that the onlythe same employment she herself endured? The same was true when Crispin was older"