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“Wait ahe’s done this in several towns? You only mentioned Fort Lurrow”

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; “Other charters are working on similar cases”

“Since when does the MC stick their noses in official police business?”

“Like it or not, we uy down”

“And why is that, Mr Shane?”

He didn’t flinch “We have skills others don’t possess and I’ll leave it at that”

The investigator within would later wonder what he’d uy stu session, and moves on?”

“For noe’ll go with that assumption”

“I still don’t buy he’s a vampire There weren’t”—she paused in reflection as she reest their bodies had been drained”

“Not all va in an effort to obtain so of value to them”

“Like what?” As much as she hated to admit it, this theory was better than any of her own

“Athleticisence, beauty, charisranted”

Pageant crossed her arms “You had my attention at first, but you realize how farfetched this sounds Don’t you?” When he didn’t respond, she decided to play along “Okay, suppose you’re right Suppose there’s this ‘vampire’ out there, and he seespersonality Nohat?”

“We think he hypnotizes his victims, lures them into a remote area, and further entrances them Once they’re mesmerized, for a lack of a better term, he takes these individual entities with force and it causes their bodies to go into shock They never recover”