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"I&039; you Eliahu is alive Eliahu Rathboone he&039;s alive"

Standing in his roo Winn stared out theat sonature Spanish ht, the shit was creepy as a shadow thrown by no discernible object or body

"Gregg, did you hearthe sleep out of his eyes, he looked over his shoulder at his nubile young narrator Holly Fleet was just inside the door, her long blond hair pulled straight back from herwithout the false lashes or the sparkly-sparkly stuff she wore on ca to hide her banging body

And she was practically vibrating, her inner tuning fork struck by one hell of a ringer

"You are aware," Gregg drawled, "that the SOB died over one hundred and fifty years ago"

"Then his ghost is really here"

"Ghosts don&039;t exist" Gregg turned back to the view "You of all people should know that"

"This one does"

"And you woke ood otten next to no sleep the night before, and he&039;d spent the day pushing and shoving on the phone to LA He&039;d hit the pillow an hour ago, not expecting to crash--but fortunately his body had had different plans

Either that or his brain was telling hi well That butler was refusing to budge on the per&039;s reapproaches had been shut down, the one at breakfast politely declined, the one at dinner flat-out ignored

Meanwhile they had soe that he&039;d already sent in Thanks to the evocative shots captured on the sly, the brass had given hio-ahead to switch the special&039;s location--but they were pressuring him for a presell cut they could broadcast ASAP

Which couldn&039;t happen until the butler relented

"Hello?" Holly snapped "Are you listening to o"

He frowned, thinking she didn&039;t have the brains to be frightened by anything short of an eighteen-wheeler with her narille "Go where?"

"Back to LA"

He nearly recoiled "LA? Are you kidding--Okay, so not going to happen Unless you want to get on Orbitz and ship yourself back like a piece of luggage We have a job to do here"

Which given the hair across that butler&039;s ass included a lot of doctoring and begging The latter being Holly&039;s milieu And actually if she was scared, that worked to an advantage She could leverage fear with the guy Men nor--especially proper gentleh every one of their dry, spindly bones