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2021-02-15 07:19:28Paul had been hunting Vampires for decades, and only once or twice had he ever registered even the slightest bit of fear. But tonight was different. He wasn’t sure if it was bad memories from the last time he was here or if Holland was somehow messing with his mind, but as he leaped down silently from the two-story house, his heart beat slightly out of control. The idea that he could be trapped in there again, that they could begin to harvest his tissue, or worse, that they had figured out whatever it was they were looking for through the experiments they were doing on him, wasn’t calming his nerves, and as he thought about the rest of his teammates, he prayed that no one else would end up in the position he had been in.
Aaron had let him know a good hour ago they’d be going in without Cassidy’s help, which was a real letdown because she’d been such a huge assistance to him personally the last time they were in this position. She had also been ab
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