Bones and Bagger (Waldlust Series Book 1) (31 page)

“That bag is a double?” I said.

Sarah Arias laughed out loud and she sounded so painfully human that I longed to heave the bag far into the desert and rush back to the hotel to begin the authentic honeymoon.

“No,” she said.  “There is another whose bones rest here.”

“Give me a hint?” I said.

She paused for a moment and shrugged her shoulders.

“Yes, vampire,” she said, “a hint is OK.”

A few moments of thought and she said, “Moses.”

Those are the kind of hints I could use more of. 
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Moses is buried somewhere out there?  And now his forefather Joseph?  Helmet would be enthralled.  Actually, best not to think of Helmet at a time like this.

“So let’s go,” I said. 

I have to admit I was as anxious as the next person to see where the Israelites put Moses just before crossing the Jordan River.

“I am going there,” she pointed to the mountains.  “You are going back to the hotel.”

I got the feeling this wasn’t going down the path I wanted it to travel.  That I was getting dumped.

“Not dumped,” she said.

Darn mind-reading trick.

“I’ll be back,” she promised.  “Just maybe not how you see me now.”

Don’t tell me Sarah Arias is really a guy.

“No,” she said.  “This is me.  But I’ve never been allowed to assume my human form.”

Great news.  My hot girlfriend would always be there.  Just not with me.  Sarah Arias turned away and began walking toward the mountains.  I knew it would be foolish to follow.  She’d just use some sort of superpower to blast me back to the SUV.  She turned around once to wave and then didn’t turn around again.

I used my vampire eyes to keep her in sight for more than an hour.  Just before she faded into the desert I received a message texted directly into my brain.

“We’ll see each other again, my dear.”

I wasn’t sure whether the message came in the voice of Sarah Arias or in that of my Nellie.  Maybe both.  I thought about that possibility as the driver turned the SUV around and headed us back to Jerusalem.  Sarah Arias or Nellie.  Perhaps two in the same.  I fell asleep with their faces smiling at me in my mind.