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"I’ here with you and Samantha for a little while, Eleanor," she said s to concern yourself with Do you understand?"

My mother nodded slowly "I understand"

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing Cassandra was using angelic influence to mess with , but only in e a quick sip of her wine "I got hory She’s always hungry lately I’m shocked she’s reot better and better

"Yes" The angel put a hand on her sto to sense her bodily needs "I believe I ahtful" Cassandra took a seat in a La-Z-Boy recliner and leaned forward to flip absently through today’s paper "Eleanor, you say that Sary lately What does she eat?"

I tensed at the question, and the iven ating "

No souls, thank you Well, except for Colin’s earlier And Bishop’s last week

I could try to convince myself that they didn’t really count I hadn’t hurt the

However, coht

The thought of the glazed eyes of the dead girl with the black lines around her mouth made my blood run cold

"You narin, but lost "I can barely keep the fridge stocked anyh"

"Better keep a lid on it if you can I rocery rinning, I assuive up her day job to becoht would go quickly It’s on the east side right near the city line Huge piece of property that’s been abandoned for months Worth two million"

"What’s the problem with it?" I asked absently

Cassandra continued to scan the newspaper, and then picked up the TV Guide to flip through it as if fascinated If she’d never left Heaven before I suppose all of this was new to her

"There’s a ru that it’s haunted" She pulled her cell phone fro "Which is ridiculous It see of chains?"

"Nothing Although, with it being Halloween in a few days, you’d think that hed at this, then left the room to call the Chinese restaurant