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As he lay with her, the sudden coolness of the air-conditioning eet against the heat of his damp flesh, and he didn’t want to move Didn’t want to be reliness of day could intrude on the beauty of the night, where there was no escaping who he was or what he did

She nudged hihorn," she said

"No," he protested

She rose up on an elbow and so back You’re the one who’s so convinced it all has to do with the Longhorn"

She looked down at hi around her naked breast, her eyes that extraordinary green, even in the darkness

He reached out for her and drew her to him, his lips just an inch froainst him as their lips met in a slow kiss that became deep and passionate Time stood still and yet passed by swiftly And when she lay beside hiain, they didn’t speak, and she didn’tbut darkness before him, and then he felt as if he’d zoo in close He wasn’t immediately sure where he was Then he saw that he’d zoo just inside It was as though ain a raspy voice and he recoiled He needed to watch, but he didn’t want to, because he was huuish to watch another person’s pain and do nothing to stop it

A shadoas co from the wall But Sandy wasn’t there, and neither was Jeff Chasson Just the shadow He thought he’d see Rose Langley step forth in a corset and garters and cheers around her neck, killing her

Because she wouldn’t give him the Galveston diamond

But it wasn’t Rose, and the woh he couldn’t have sworn exactly what era, if any, such a sie of the clothing, however; he recognized the woman’s face He’d seen it in his files, on the news, perhaps even on a TV screen, but he hadn’t been affected by it back then as he was now Crirandfather’s land and enclosed his had happened but they hadn’t really touched him, hadn’t seemed personal

He’d since learned that the world was shared, that he’d gotten into law enforcement with a true desire to find justice, to save the vulnerable and innocent from the brutal and vicious

He knew the face Sierra Monte’s

The shadow coht at hi as she whispered, "Help me Help them Help her"

She didn’t fade away, but rather disappeared in an explosion of flapping wings She’d been a shadow, and then she’d been form, and her fors and fleay He started, and realized he’d been sleeping and that noake

Kelsey was gone

He leaped out of bed and ran naked down the hallway, to the kitchen Her clothing no longer lay strewn about

He raced back into the bedrooht he’d barely closed his eyes, but it was 3:00 am

He was suddenly so anxious, so desperate to find Kelsey, that he nearly dashed out of the house nude He re to him

Help me, help theer

He rab a shirt and buckle on his gun belt Then he tore froht, especially in what Kelsey considered the heart of it--Alahts, while across the street and grass and trees of the plaza, some neon still burned Ripley’s Believe It or Not offered the visitor a trip through the extrehost tours were, needless to say, available To attraction, and for those anted a good scare, there was Ripley’s Haunted Adventure, where guests could ride a haunted coffin cage into a world of "bone-chilling" special effects, animatronics and live-action thrill-chill actors

But it was three in the , so there was no one about Kelsey decided she loved the city this way

She was surprised that she’d been able to slip out of bed without a protest She’d noted before that Logan seeht

He wanted her to stay, she knew, but men went into protectivewith a woman They both understood that she had to stay in Room 207, and that her talents and abilities hy she’d been chosen, why she ith him Talents and abilities she had to use…

They all realized there was so in Room 207 Even if she hadn’t already seen the past reenacted there, they’d watched the fil out--and he would, because it was the right thing for her to do He wanted to come to Room 207 to be with her, but she knew innately that neither one of them wanted to make love in that rooone to his house ordless consent

It didn’t change the fact that she needed to be in that room She didn’t mind if he came back with her; she’d actually like it if he did It was just that…

He’d been sleeping so deeply He’d been at rest and she thought that, for Logan, such a deep and encoht, casting a gentle glow along with the streetlights Turning from the modern attractions to the historical ones, Kelsey saw the old chapel of the Ala With the modern world at her back, it seemed even more hallowed

Not until she’d crossed over toward the old chapel was she aware of being followed

She paused for ato adjust a shoe There was no sound Straining to hear, she caught the rustle of leaves, the sighing of a breeze at night She straightened, re herself that she was a US Marshal She was arh to be a little afraid It also occurred to her that she just ht be a killer

As she began to ain, she heard a click Click, click, click

Up ahead lay the historic Menger Hotel and other buildings She needed to move away from the open plaza and find a place to wait