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Help was nearly there But there was no sign of Ashley

Jake started This time, he saw a man

A man in full Confederate dress; his sword in a hilt at his side, secured by a butternut-colored sash The loves

Jake started walking

A frown knit his brow Angela had just said that she’d searched the cehost wanted hial

And so he did

He was dimly aware of the sounds behind hi with both her patients; Whitney and Will wereup to search the woods before the bayou; Jackson and Angela were hurrying out to search the guest building, e out slightly as if to invite hiun that he wore in his belt holster when he was on official business He

He started to hurry,his way to the chapel in the back, and he nearly tore the door froht into every corner, but there was no sign of Ashley

He turned around, and the ghost was there again, beckoning hih the trails of the sh step tombs, pyrah the centuries

He knehere he would end

The ghost stood before the Donegal vault The slab was in place; the wrought-iron gate was closed The ghost stared at hiate

Jake burst forward and tugged at the wrought iron hi open far too easily He pushed at the concrete barrier that was usually resealed after every inter to speak to hi slab again, and it fell backward, bursting into a million pieces in a cloud of concrete dust

"Ashley!" He screah the grating, and he blinked, adjusting his eyes to thehad lain there The dust was disturbed He turned…

Not quickly enough So froered for balance

Griffin!

Theto stab him at the sa at hiainst his attacker with all his weight

Griffin fell back a foot

Jake caught his attacker’s wrist, squeezed with all of his strength, and the needle went flying across the toun In the led desperately to keep his attacker froun toward his head or chest He roundhouse-kicked his opponent, keeping a desperate and rigid hold on the gun, and the htly, but when Jake tried to use the advantage to wrest the gun fully fro

Jake shoved hiun went flying across the room

He set at his attacker with his bare hands, but Griffin Grant had now pulled a knife fro blindly, but he still felt the man, felt the

"You can’t fight any better than your scu rapist of an ancestor, Grant!" Jake taunted hiun in the darkness

Provoking hi across the tomb

That tiainsttheto the floor, and the two of the led for the top spot; Grant locked his legs around hi hiht hiainst the head

Grant teetered

And then the side of the one of the to hied Jake leapt to his feet, reaching for her swiftly and drawing her to her feet

Grant ca Jake staggering forward, his arain She was slipping and falling; she had no strength in her legs He had to help her, had to protect her…

He turned his back to her, ready to withstand Grant’s next ainst Jake, but suddenly an ear splitting roar seeround; his body shuddered ain

Jake blinked

Frazier was standing at the entrance to the to in his hands

"Grao, Graue

"I still don’t really fathoed I enerations?" Ashley asked Jake "He toldhial family His ancestor told him to do it! And I don’t knohat to believe because…my own ancestor saved me"