coming up in just a couple of minutes. No place for a vampire to be.”

Paul nodded and motioned to the bodies. “What are you going to do with them?”

Runner indicated the nearby trees. Several people had emerged from them and were walking our way. “Those are my people. I figured we’d need a clean–up crew. They’ll take care of it.”

Mack started to drop down to all fours but paused to say, “You’ll still do the spell for Jimmy?”

I blinked. With everything that had happened in the past few minutes, I’d almost forgotten why we’d done this. The image of the kid flashed before my eyes, and I nodded. “Yeah, give me at least a day to sleep, and I’ll be able to do it.”

He grinned briefly. “Thank y...

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