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Trepidation had her tre as she walked up the stairs and onto the wide, wrap-around porch of Meg’s B&B It was a beautiful old house that she’d lived in with her husband until he’d died After his death, she’d turned it into a B&B

Saxon ran the bell and Meg answered She was a sweetly rounded lady with a huge heart Every year she held an Easter egg hunt in her extensive gardens for all the kids in the neighborhood, and she had a ready sh, she looked troubled and tired

Her eyes widened as she saho it was then she smiled “Saxon, you’re back”

“I am”

“Thank the Lord”

“I believe you have a rodent problem”

“You could say that Come in if you like”

Saxon shook his head “We’ll stay out here If you wouldn’tMrs Hartfield for us?”

“Oh, I don’t one soon?”

“She’ll be gone very soon,” he pro disappeared and took her hand in his “Ready for this, sprite?”

“As ready as one can be when they’re about to talk to one of Satan’s minions”

He grinned down at her “Just re, hairy one on the end of her nose”

She burst out laughing just as Winifred reached the door

“Well, I’htily