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branches overhead. He saw Lord Baptiste turn his
gaze back to them.
    Lord Baptiste expelled sharply, "You'd best
prepare him, if you insist on involving him. ’Tis bloody."
    Adam could swear he heard an animalistic
bass snarl come from Christian's direction, but then Christian
said, "He'd be out here with or without us. Better with us."
    Adam was startled at the yellow, animal-like
glints he'd seen in Lord Baptiste's eyes in that one moment when
he'd looked back. He wondered why these men were out in the woods
as if they knew some deadly deed was occurring and knew it before
it had happened. However, most of all, the thought of something
bloody up ahead terrorized him.
    "Beth!" he began to shout. "Beth!"
    "Here," Lord Baptiste called, coming to a
halt ahead of them. "But be prepared," Lord Baptiste growled,
halting next to Christian as he looked back at Adam.
    They are yellow beast eyes , Adam
thought in alarm, nearly backing away from the entity that was
Baptiste, who had growled his words like an animal.
    "Control yourself!" Christian shouted, and
Adam watched Baptiste's features contort as Baptiste stretched his
neck toward the moon, then back down again.
    "’Tis the blood," Baptiste snarled.
    "I know, brother," Christian uttered,
grabbing Baptiste's shoulder. "Fresh blood is the hardest. But we
will resist."
    Hardest what , Adam wondered? Resist
what? He growled himself in scared frustration and plowed between
both strange men, until he saw what was on the other side of
Baptiste.
    "Oh Lord, no! Oh Lord!" Adam cried,
crumbling to his knees in horror before the bloody and torn apart
remains on the forest ground before him that had once been a
woman.
    "Lady Ariel!" he cried at the blonde hair he
saw, but more the tattered pieces of lavender silk.
     
     

Chapter Five
     
     
    Beth didn't know how she stayed upright, but
the vicious and snarling voice kept howling at her to, "Run!"
    It came from her left side, and then it
stalked her from the right side. Suddenly it snapped right behind
her and she could feel scalding hot breath wash over her bare
buttocks. She knew the beast was playing with her. It meant to kill
her. Its intentions loomed over her like its black shape. The more
she screamed and panted, the more the monster howled and she was
running out of breath and strength.
    She could barely see through the wildness of
her long hair to keep from running head long into trees. Branches
jabbed her flesh. The fact her gown was torn from her body, along
with her petticoats, leaving only a half corset covering her waist,
mortified her as much as terror gripped her.
    She was going to die.
    Trinity caught the flashes of alabaster skin
off to the left and in front of where he ran through the brambles.
The woman's screaming had stopped many minutes ago, and he had to
guess the foul beast hunting her had nearly run her to ground.
    He veered his headlong sprint towards the
glimpses of pale flesh he kept catching sight of through
thickly-grouped trees surrounded by scattered bushes. His timing to
reach the young woman before the vile monster leapt to kill her was
too close to think he'd make it. The threatening roar he released
was of a maddened vampire reverberating through the night air. The
abhorrence would recognize his thundering challenge.
    He heard the woman cry out … in pain this
time. Instantly he smelled blood, as he bellowed, "No!" Then his
large body crashed through a small opening in the foliage.
    He realized too late he was moving much too
fast to halt his forward motion, when suddenly the woman was there
… as if pushed forward toward his unchecked momentum. He only had
seconds to react and he grasped her against his body. Her long
black hair whipped around them as he turned to take the brunt of an
inevitable fall. He landed on his back with the woman piled on top
of him. Then he heard the triumphant howl of escape from the foul
beast fading into the distance.
    Trinity held tight to the voluptuous young
woman as