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"You do that I' before any of yourup the stairs

Given the dog's track record, I tended to agree Even Helsing had proven that he could sense Kramer's approach, but if the equip, as I to scorn helpful technology? Dexter and Helsing had to sleep soood neas no one else had been visited by Kramer at the hotel The bad neas that it wouldn't take Kraht if we stayed, so we'd needed a new place that was still within reasonable driving distance of the cave Plus, the fewer innocent bystanders near us, the better if Kraain He hadn't proven to be considerate of others

That made my former childhood home our best option for the next few days until the trap was corandparents died and we relocated with ht it back after a nice couple had beento draw ht the place was empty Normally, it was I kept the electric and water on, since Bones and I occasionally stayed here e visited Ohio The orchard surrounding this house hadn't been harvested in years My frugal grandfather rave at the waste of so rown orchard acted as a natural privacy barrier, hiding any lights or activity in the house fro the s and furniture tops with a heavy layer of arlic and marijuana The forrocery store, but the latter required green-eyeing a local drug dealer into giving up his entire stock I wish I could say it had been hard to find so weed inthrough a derelict neighborhood to detect the distinctive s a drug dealer to my list of crimes, but as I supposed to do? Rei, not to e, but I had to adh what I was doing with it was arguably ht work as a sort of supernatural flaoal was to not let hiain Not until we had that trap ready, anyway

I pulled some extra blankets out of the closet and handed the to spread more of the stinky mixture around the house

"Pass these out downstairs," I told Tyler "I'll get h for everyone to get their own blanket, but thank God the heater worked, and I could get more blankets tomorrow And air mattresses The house only had two bedrooht of us, but safety concerns had to overrule comforts and conveniences

Tyler took the blankets and I foraged through the guest roo tablecloths froh I went back intome two more blankets and a set of sheets Bones and I could sleep with our jackets covering us As va cold

"Do you have anything to drink here?" I heard Graham ask, dis down the stairs with es tohts belied his words

I sure hope this bitch isn'tall this up as a desperate ploy for attention We've been on this job over a week, and we still only have her word that this phantom exists, let alone is a threat to anyone She could just be off her -

"Hey!" Graha just hit me!"

I tensed Red streaks marred Graham's cheek like the imprint from an invisible hand, and the air was indeed prickled with a new, angry energy, skipping acrosswas silent, and though I didn't see where Helsing was, no distinctive feline growl split the sudden silence after Graham's pronounceauges," Chris ordered, his gaze darting around "We ht not be the only ones here anymore"

Lexie, Fred, and Nancy hurried to co energy, and my jaw dropped

Bones stood in the hallway, fists slowly clenching and eaze as he stared at Grahaain"