Chapter 6:

Ray slowly entered the room, the suspicious look gone, or rather hidden from view, and answered the unvoiced question.

"I came and saw that the door of this house was open. I heard your laughter and it led me here."

"Well? Now that you are here, what do you want?" Anastasia asked in an unwelcome voice.

"I found that I had a lot of time on my hands and I wanted to…" Ray paused looking at Anna.

"You wanted to?" Anastasia asked, shaking Ray from his thoughts.

But Ray was spared from having to answer. Stephen suddenly got to his knees and started pleading loudly in a disgusting voice.

"I know why he is here! But I tell ya! I am innocent! Innocent! Innocent I tell ya! Arghh!"

Kai looked astonishingly at Stephen.

"And this charming man is Stephen John. Stephen stop it, this is not the time. Will you come this way Agent Nickholas?"

Anna looked Ray in question then started moving out of the room. Ray nodded his head at the other occupants of the room and followed Anna out of the house.

"They are out of hearing distance now that we are out of the house. So tell me why you really came here and no lying." Anna asked.

Ray got astonished at her perception but didn't show it. As he was thinking of why he really came here, he got embarrassed and felt himself go red. Without looking at Anna, he replied:

"Well... Uh… actually I came to go over few things you said in your interview with me and Kai"

As he said this, he was privately thinking to himself:

I blew it! She must know that I am lying, but how can I tell her that I came to see her? Like she would believe that! I don't understand it myself, Why should she? Me… wanting to see her after our first meeting ! man! That's not even my style! If Tyson ever knew, he would never let me live it down.. but I can't help it..

"So how long have you known Madalyne?" Ray inquired while simultaneously trying to cover himself.

"I am not sure really. It seems that we have known... sorry … we knew each other since ages."

Anna answered. Kai looked at her and thought:

"She is so beautiful and I can feel the pain in her voice though she tries to hide it. I am sure she isn't the murderess Kai thinks her to be. And yet I sense a mystery in her. Why do I feel that she is hiding something? And what could she be hiding?

At Midnight.

Looking at the well furnished room, it was hard to believe that Madalyne was killed here. Anastasia Westmorland looked around the, now clean, room. She took a deep breath to distinguish the faint smells of humans in the air. As a vampire, she had a great sense of smell. She could also detect if there was anyone near her simply by smelling the blood flowing through their veins. It was a technique which had taken hundred of years to perfect. Now she put that technique in use. She took a deep breath again and smelled, faintly, Madalyne's blood. With it, she could also smell the blood of another person.

Clearly Madalyne had scratched her murderer. But the murderer had been clever and had cleaned his/her blood so that the police can not identity the murderer. Anastasia Westmorland smiled. The murderer had cleaned the blood carefully but cleaning did not take away the smell of it. It was still there though faint.

She followed the smell out of the house with her black cape billowing softly behind her. The cape also hid her face as she did not want anyone to see her and recognize her. Her black attire went well with the darkness of the night in which she could easily vanish and disappear.

As she advanced, she realized that the smell was getting fainter and fainter until it completely disappeared. She stopped and realized she was in an unknown territory. She stood there in the darkness, surrounded by trees and three long lanes of houses in front of her. Each lane seemed to continue on forever with about twenty to thirty houses in each. She looked at the first lane then the second, then the last one, taking deep breaths in each direction. But the smell of the blood was gone.

Looking at the houses, she thought:

I don't care how impossible it looks. I will avenge you Madalyne! Even if it kills me!

She had no idea how much closer she was to being killed. The murderer looked at all the pictures spread out on the table, thinking:

I am coming for you vampire! I will kill you! You have managed to elude me for far too long! You shall be killed You creature of darkness!

From one of the pictures, Anastasia Westmorland's smiling face gazed out in the room.

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