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"We’ll be starting bright and early, so we can catch all the light we can Someone will be posted out on the porch twenty-four seven to keep the lookie-loos away, so you just check in with hiet here," Floby told hi let in on this, Lieutenant," Caleb told Jaed "I don’t knoho you know, but they sure as hell know all the right people" He grinned "You proved your abilities thisI’m happy to keep you in the loop--all the loops And I’m sure you’ll do me the same courtesy in return"

"Of course"

Two handshakes and Caleb was out the door He took a minute to turn and stare up at the house--just as a srueso on the state of the bodies

Calebquestioned by those who had seen him leave the house and moved farther down the street, then stopped and studied the house again

Brick,that old-town Southern charrand old edifice It wasn’t evil, it was just a house Still, he felt that there were things waiting to be discovered there, things that he needed to know

But no ghosts danced on the wraparound porch No specters wavered in the s

The house was just a house

He turned and headed back toward his B&B, planning to check his e- to eat He’d barely made it around the corner when he saw Sarah McKinley ahead of hi behind her She was alone That surprised hiroup of friends last ti someone behind her For aaround and stared at hi here?" Her eyes narrowed suspiciously "Are you following me?"

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"M an, that was really creepy," Caroline said, walking along Avila Street She shuddered and e She had known Will ht and teased one another as kids They had become friends as adults They had shared their trials and tribulations with other members of the opposite sex with one another

Then…

They’d been together one night--at Hunky Harry’s, as a ether, they had looked at each other and their laughter had stopped And noell, it wasn’t as if they’d gone insane or anything, but they were both carefully negotiating the transition from friends to the realization that they wanted to be much more

Will set an arm around her shoulders "Leave it to Sarah And what happened earlier today, that was pretty damn creepy, too"

"Yeah, tell us about it Who is this Caleb guy, anyway?" Barry asked, strolling up alongside Will

"Hey, wait! What aboutto do? Block the whole sidewalk?" Caroline complained

But they all wanted to hear what Will had to say, so they crowded together and walked along in an aard group, trying to hear hinet," Will said "We were looking for that irl, Winona Hart, and Lieutenant Jamison said Anderson had to be on the dive team He didn’t explain why, just said the uy and let hiton Some hotshot sent him down here I have to tell you, ere ticked at first But the thing is, in the last year, we’ve dived that area a dozen times, and no one ever found that car But--he found it as easy as if he had a uy he found?" Renee asked

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