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now Eleisha had planned to watch a movie called Psycho with him. He was happy.
    As they headed through the sanctuary and through the door behind the altar, she’d just begun chatting about something involving the use of light and shadow when Wade stepped from his office.
    “I sent Seamus back to London,” he said without even a greeting.
    Something in his voice caught Philip’s attention—a hard determination.
    “Why?” Eleisha asked.
    “Come look at this.”
    A feeling of trepidation began to grow in Philip’s stomach as they followed Wade into the office and Eleisha pulled up a chair so that she and Wade could look at the computer screen together.
    From where he was standing, Philip could see the headline.

WILD MAN STRIKES OUTSIDE BRITISH MUSEUM
    The trepidation turned into a knot as Eleisha began silently reading. She stopped and looked at Wade. “Again . . . ,” she said. “Almost the same story.”
    “Except this time the woman suffered blood loss. Even if Seamus can’t pinpoint a signature, I think we should check this out ourselves.”
    “Where’s Rose? Does she know yet?”
    “No. She’s in her room, and I didn’t want to disturb her,” he answered.
    Philip just hung back by the door.
    Eleisha finished scanning the story, but her face was unreadable when she looked over at Wade and nodded. “Yes, we have to go. But how long do you want to give Seamus first? We shouldn’t leave until we’ve let him finish his search. He might learn more this time.”
    “Agreed. We should give him at least a few days,” Wade said, reaching for a map. “But I think we should get a hotel in this area. It’s central, and it’s close to several Tube stations.” He pointed down, but Philip didn’t bother looking.
    Wade and Eleisha continued their discussion, and all plans for watching the Hitchcock film evaporated. Philip understood. This was their purpose; this was why they’d bought the church in the first place. Wade’s job was to locate a lost vampire. Eleisha would make contact and establish trust. Philip would provide protection.
    He understood.
    But he also couldn’t help dwelling on the memory of the past few months, when Eleisha hadn’t seemed interested in anything but him. Now they were about to launch a new search, a new mission, and a part of him couldn’t help feeling that he’d just lost something.

chapter two
    VALE OF GLAMORGAN, WALES
    J ulian Ashton walked through the long dining hall at Cliffbracken Manor, noticing cobwebs in several corners and reminding himself to contact the Cardiff agency to arrange for a more competent maid. The last two had been hopeless, and he vowed that if he could engage someone capable, he would not feed on her.
    Good help was hard to find, and he couldn’t deny that Cliffbracken was gaining a rather dim reputation for disappearing servants.
    He walked down the darkened hallway to his study, his favorite room. The fire he’d built earlier burned in the hearth, making the aged chairs and couches look almost new in the soft yellow light. A pile of maps and newspapers completely covered a round table in the center of the room. He leaned down to examine several of them.
    Julian was a large man with a bone structure that almost made him look heavy. His dark hair hung at uneven angles around a solid chin, and he pushed it back, away from his face, wondering where to start first.
    His nights had taken on a kind of routine while he waited for Eleisha to find a new lead. He usually woke, built a fire, went to the stables, took his horse out for a long ride, and then he would come back here to do research. Wade and Eleisha were taking so long to find someone new to track that he’d decided to try to take matters into his own hands, just to see what he would find. So he’d begun subscribing to international newspapers. He decided to start with Germany tonight and picked up a copy of Der Spiegel .
    He’d just begun reading when the air beside him shimmered, and a