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It took us an hour and a half to get to Letham, and a fewheld The entrance to the drive was cleverly hidden by a straggly looking cli rose, and a feeedy trees We passed it twice before we spotted the tracks leading off the road

The tracks became a cracked tar driveway covered in thistles which scraped the underside of my car Elderly trees lined the driveway and leaned with disapproval over our intrusion We ignored thehtly and transfor off it I wound the n and leaned my head out of the , and then I turned the car around and drove straight back out of there This was clearly the place we'd been looking for It stank of vampires

I parked the car a couple of , running through dense thickets of trees and walking nonchalantly through et a few minutes later

It orse than we'd expected

What looked like flat green acres translated into rough terrain filled with gorse and boulders, until a few hundred , when it suddenly becareen We stood in the dark just beyond that smooth and exposed expanse, and reached out with our minds And there they were Two snipers, wide awake They'd both spotted us, and one was about to pull a trigger We ducked as a bullet ricocheted off a nearby boulder Close Too close

One bullet in the brain could end it for us Strong as ere, with all our phenoht be all it took It was so on us, for obvious reasons I wasn't ready to die, so I ran, and so did Oliver

I heard the low grunt of a high velocity rifle and Oliver stumbled and would have fallen, but I had sh his skin, and I'd reached out to grab his ar him up over a shoulder in a fireman's lift and ran faster

I was iet at al with a bunch of blood feeders Jack had sent after us These guys were good

This was going to be much harder than we had anticipated