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  He lifted his right arm up and waited. He needed it to be close enough to try to get past it and attack it from the rear. It moved closer. Sean feinted to the left and dashed to the right, but the creature quickly mirrored his movement. He tried moving to the left, but the creature moved just as fast, blocking him and forcing him past the section wall and towards the corner of the garage.

  Sean knew the only way out was through the beast. And he knew he was out of options. He screamed at the top of his lungs and ran toward the creature, his right arm and nightstick raised defensively. The creature bellowed back and raised its arm, talons clicking into place, to attack.

  Another glimmer of light. The soft sound of air being pushed and the beast froze in its tracks. Sean jumped back and watched as the head tottered on the stump of neck that protruded from its body and then fell with a crash to the ground. It split in half and then crumbled to dust.

  Sean looked up from the remains of the creature and saw her. Once again wiping the green ooze from the blade of her broadsword. But, she wasn’t a girl any longer. She was a woman. A tall, strikingly beautiful woman.

  “You,” he stuttered.

  “Aye, and here you are trying to fight off a Heldeofol with naught but a stick again,” she said, shaking her head. “Did you learn nothing from your last experience?”

  “You weren’t a hallucination?” he asked.

  She smiled brightly at him. “Aye, Sean the Brave, I’m only a dream.”

  And then she disappeared.

  About the author:

  Terri Reid lives near Freeport, the home of the Mary O’Reilly Mystery Series, and loves a good ghost story. She lives in a hundred year-old farmhouse complete with its own ghost. She loves hearing from her readers at [email protected]

  Other books by Terri Reid:

  Loose Ends – A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery (Book One)

  Good Tidings – A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery (Book Two)

  Never Forgotten - A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery (Book Three)

  Final Call - A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery (Book Four)

  Darkness Exposed - A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery (Book Five)

  Natural Reaction – A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery (Book Six)

  Secret Hollows – A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery (Book Seven)

  Broken Promises – A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery (Book Eight)

  Twisted Paths – A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery (Book Nine)

  The Ghosts Of New Orleans -A Paranormal Research and Containment Division (PRCD) Case File

  Table of Contents

  Copyright

  Note from the author

  Chapter One (20 years ago)

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six (present day)

  About the author

  Other books by the author

  Table of Contents

  Copyright

  Note from the author

  Chapter One (20 years ago)

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six (present day)

  About the author

  Other books by the author