Grace Faircloth had digital information on both of the passengers she found to be suspicious. She had sent it all over to her Uncle Sam earlier, but it wasn't until she was making her drive home to Arlington that she received a phone call from him confirming that he had received it. Due to the hectic Dallas-area traffic, she decided to play it safe and take the call over her wireless Bluetooth connection. "Hi, Uncle Sam! How are you?""Hey, darlin'" came the reply. "I'm a little concerned, sweetheart. I think you did the right thing in letting me know about these two shady characters. Unfortun

Cadence made it back to her apartment in record time. She had cried so often in the last few weeks that she honestly didn't think she had anything left in her. Yet, as she locked the door and leaned back on it momentarily to catch her breath, she felt the tears stinging her eyes once again. Wiping at them absently, she resolved herself not to let him get to her, not to even entertain the notion of what it would be like to have to face Jack in combat, and taking her phone out of her pocket and setting it on the coffee table, she went to take a shower.Despite her hopes that the shower would was

Aaron continued. “ I should have understood that, that was precisely what had happened. But I was too foolish, or too emotionally distraught to believe it. I thanked God for giving me my wife back. We went on about our lives, completely entrenched in our marital bliss, me ignoring all of the signs that this creature was not my wife, she pretending everything was as it should be, until I caught her sneaking back into our home one night. The next morning, I stumbled upon a mourning party burying the remains of a small child. There was no doubt in my mind then that Aislyn was no longer the person I had married.

That night, in her dreams, Cadence was chasing the Vampire version of Jack through an airport as he feasted on children of all ages, from infant to teen. She was always just behind him, never able to catch up. By the end of his reign of terror, she had finally trapped him against a wall where he had nowhere to go. "Give it up, Jack," she had said in her sternest Vampire Hunter voice.With a maniacal laugh, he stated, "I'm not Jack, you fool!" and came at her, teeth bared.

The brisk knock on the door alerted Cadence to who was on the other side more so than any visual even could have. Pulling it open, she smiled at Elliott who was leaning against the doorjamb, her phone in his hand. "Mornin' kid. You ready to do this?"Taking a deep sigh, she nodded, stepping out of the way so he could fit his large body through the door.Handing her the phone he said, "So, do