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man who’s seducing your wife is trafficking young girls.’
    ‘Oh, not another one,’ said Ron, remembering Big Ed. He forgot about Val for a moment as he recalled the circumstances of Sandy’s passing.
    ‘Are you okay?’ he took her hand not concerning himself with what the angels would read into it. She nodded her head as Raphael continued.
    ‘The vibes from the man are extremely bad and he has company,’ seeing their confusion he elaborated. ‘Evil souls are always with him. There’s no doubt about where he’ll go when his time comes, and he may even be groomed for advanced promotion down there.’
    ‘So there’s no hope for him at all?’ said Sandy. Ron ignored her comment. ‘And this is the man that my wife is seeing?’ Ron was very frightened. ‘We have to do something and damn quick.’
    *****
    Claire followed the man at a distance. The evil spirits accompanying him seemed too interested in his next move to bother with her, she wasn’t even sure that they were aware of her presence. There was something in the way he carried himself that was familiar but she couldn’t yet put her finger on it. Don’t think of it and it’ll come to you, she told herself as she watched him approach the office and close the door.
    ‘All went to plan then?’ Gary asked and Daniel nodded.
    ‘You may have noticed the police presence,’ he replied. ‘Now isn’t a particularly good time for this discussion.’
    ‘Just chill and act like your normal self but show you’re upset at the girl’s disappearance. What do the police think?’
    ‘That an animal’s taken her. I told them I ran outside when I heard a scream and saw a lion carrying something in the distance, but that I couldn’t make out what it was.’
    ‘Did they believe you?’ Gary wasn’t overly bothered. It was handy having the Chief of Police as one of his clients and he knew he enjoyed young lithe girls much better than fully formed women. He also knew that as long as he kept him happy he needn’t worry about being caught. Daniel needed to be kept on his toes though and there was no way he’d share the confidential information about his scumbag clients.
    ‘There’s no evidence to prove it or otherwise and they know we haven’t had lions attack humans in this area for years,’ he gave a sneaky smile and Gary knew there was more to come. ‘That bloody woman Marion didn’t believe it of course, until I told her that the reason she couldn’t see the bodies of the other girls who’d disappeared was because we’d suspected lion attacks. She went ape and said that if we had warned everyone off, Mary would still be safe.’
    ‘But you think she believed you?’
    ‘Judging by her reaction, yes.’ Marion had run to her room crying and when he’d sent the nurse to see her she’d been sobbing her heart out.
    Daniel had done a good job and Gary gave him a manly pat on the back. ‘Well done, mate. There may be a little bonus in this for you. We won’t take anyone else from here until Marion and Val have gone and I’ll arrange a hunting expedition and bring me back a rogue lion in the meantime.’ It wouldn’t do him any harm at all for Val to think he’d killed a lion that’d had a taste for human blood.
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    Mary woke up in a comfortable bed wearing a strange nightdress and grabbed the wrist of the hand that was stroking her face. The girl who was looking down at her and smiling, jolted and tried to pull her hand away, to no avail. She saw the look of terror on the new girl’s face and remembered how she’d felt on her first day.
    ‘Please, I don’t want to hurt you. I am your friend,’ Tamara risked a little smile. ‘They want me to tell you what you have to do if you want to eat and don’t want to be beaten.’
    Ten minutes later Mary sat with her knees hugged to her chest, arms folded around them with her head on her arms. She was absolutely terrified at what Tamara had told her and at first, hoped she was having a nightmare