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the creature was taken out before the night was over I’ to bet a lot of people coain
"You knoait This is really kind of ridiculous That would be awfully elaborate, don’t you think?
Getting so into a hotel hall, and then having it disappear in the ht? It had to have been put there by the hotel, right?"
"Maybe not"
"Then the whole thing about the blood," Finn said "Megan hasn’t cut herself, she hasn’t run into anything, suffered no injury"
"What about you?" Jade asked pointedly
"No!" he said, scoffing at the idea Then he paused again, chills seeping through him that he denied with a deep and silent screaon in Morwenna’s shop
You know, a collectible piece for display I picked it up, and… bled like a stuck pig," he adravely
"That doesn’t end and lore out there A guy is never the sacrifice It’s always a vestal virgin, or the beautiful blonde--soan," he said dully
"The blood of the sacrifice--there’s no real tense there, past or present," Jade said "The blood of the sacrifice could be blood obtained before the main rite"
"Someone sacrificed in that sense is usually dead," Finn said
"Yes," Jade said
"At least Megan and I are both alive and well So far," Finn commented He leaned forward, elbows on his knees "This is what I’et There is someone out there who has read all this bull about Bac-Dal and Cabal Thorne Apparently, Cabal Tho the demon, because people came after him He was, by his own admission, a very bad man, a murderer He was killed silently, outside the law, because the people didn’t want to be accused of any injustice again--
most of thee nu believed that they were in league with the devil It seean, and that they know soestion, the power of the an and me up, and she becoerous man, and when she is used for whatever their heinous intentionsto believe that Megan could become the victim of the insane murderers He lifted his hands "Well… make me look like a wife beater, a crazy, jealous husband… and I take the fall if so terrible happens to her Maybe it’s time to call in the police"
"And tell the drea breath He shook his head "Yet I’m the one who lost the blood, and the hair"
"You’re sure that Megan hasn’t suffered a cut, or anything like it? A good pin prick on the finger?" Jade asked
"Not to the best of e," Finn said He hesitated "Unless she cut herself last night, after I left her This is all crazy, though At first, I was upset because of as happening between us Now, I’ a deht have been chosen for so, and that I’m the one intended to do life in a itated "And I don’t knohere she is right nohich is suddenly scaring the hell out of roup around the table, pulling out his cell phone and punching the speed dial to connect hian?"
"Finn Hey"
"Where are you?" He asked the question tersely
Despite the reassuring sound of her voice, he was afraid for her
"About a block and a half in from the wax museum and the cemetery," she told hi a bite of lunch"
"Great" He tried to keep the grinding of his teeth frolad that she ith Smith, in a crowd, alive and well--safe for the moment He was still irritated
"Where are you?"
"Just perusing an old bookshop"
"Did the writer and her husband get in?"
"Yes, they’re withthelanced at the desk, and the threesoan, Lucian said, "Jade and I need to study soo meet her?"
"How an
"We’ve just ordered"
"Order me some coffee I’ll an told hi how the hell he had knohat Megan had said to hiht, at the hotel," Lucian told hio by Morwenna’s shop as well"
"We’ll find it," Jade said "Eddie can point us in the right direction"
"All right," Finn said "I don’t mean to run off, but--"
"You want to be with your wife; we understand," Lucian said
Finn turned to Eddie "Hey, thanks"