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Ragnor looked at her seriously "We do like our edthe?er?kind of sustenance you do need?" she asked aardly

"We often pay visits to the local blood banks," Lucian said "And aninor said flatly

"Are you trying to make me more nervous?" she asked him

He leaned close to her "If I intended to take your blood, Jordan, I could have done sosoul, is she?" Lucian inquired

"Oh, and I should be?"

Ragnor shrugged "Left corner table," he said to Lucian and Sean

Jordan started to nor warned her softly

"What are you telling the an eye out"

"For?"

"Hey!" Sean said "I’m a cop My eyes are always open"

None of them explained any further Lucian asked for the check and paid it It was time to leave

When they reached the cerove of trees by the side of the very old burial ground

"We’ll have the gate open in atoward the entry They disappeared into the darkness A ate

Sean carried a duffel bag with him as they started in

"What if the Charleston cops showup here?" Jordan demanded

"We’ll be done before anyone shows," Sean assured her "Let’s go" Inside the now open ten foot gates, Ragnor and Lucian aiting for theht in the outlands of Charleston, fog sat low on the ground For aof the insanity of what she was doing On a dark and foggy night, she andering around a cee cop and two self-proclaiures Cherubs rose above raves; Madonnas, heads bowed in prayer over folded hands, graced others

The fog seemed to sith a life of its own Jordan tripped over a broken old stone as they hurried off the path Ragnor caught her ar her

"Steven is?just ahead," she told them

He was buried in an open area between two pre-Civil War private rave

The stone was blackit hard to read the inscription in the darkness, but Lucian and Ragnor seeht vision

They paused for just a moment Jordan remembered the day when she had stood here and listened to the prayers as Steven had been interred

It had rained

The sky had been a leaden gray She had felt as if they were burying her heart

Now she was allowing people to dig him up

There would be no way to stop the He took the Jordan watched, standing just a few feet back, amazed at the speed hich thethethe up the coffin It was sealed in lead She didn’t knohat device Sean had brought for that, or how he’d e on the plane, but she was sure it had to do with the ‘last-ements’ they had made at the airport

Soon they would reach the coffin She was afraid it would be like the old Hammer films she watched on the Movie Channel They would open it up; there would be a horrible creaking sound And there would be Steven, restored to health and splendor, sleeping with his arms crossed over his chest And he would open his eyes, but she wouldn’t see Steven’s eyes, she would see the red glowing orbs of a denor said to Sean

Sean crawled out of the hole and saw Jordan’s pale face "It’s alun in the bag He grabbed it and dropped back into the hole Jordan heard the hoot of an owl and clenched her teeth, looking around the graveyard

She stared back at the hole, seeing the sparks that created an eerie red gloithin Then, as she watched and listened to the drone of the gun, she had the feeling that someone was behind her