Chapter Twenty Three

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Several hours later . . .

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"Shamira, get out of the car. It was just one web."

Shamira was shaking her head. "I'll be fine in a minute."

Renata leaned against the car, laughing in her hands until she cried. She hadn't believed it when she'd heard about the golf course incident, but Shamira was deathly afraid of spiders. She had been wandering through one of the few forested areas left near I-575 (due to the swampy nature of the area) waving a stick in front of her when a web brushed up against her face. She had screamed, waved her hands wildly in the air, then run back to the Ford Mustang.

"How can you be an outdoors person and be afraid of spiders?"

"I'm very careful when and where I walk. Damn it, I thought that this super vamp vision was supposed to help see in the dark!"

"It makes it so you can see as well at night as you do during the day. Webs are always hard to see. Now get out of the car," Renata said, shaking he