Embarrassed I looked around the room some more, noticing for the first time a table with a black cloth over it and a black sheet draped over something...oddly shaped next to that table. Linda lifted the cloth from the table, revealing a neat row of boxes of various sizes. From one she removed a two foot long bar with cuffs on either end. She and my wife knelt down, cuffed that to my legs and slid two bolts into unobtrusive holes in the floor.“OK ladies,” she said, returning to the table. . On one of these get togethers one of the younger guy had way to much to drink and i told him to go inside and have a nap on the sofa,well when the guys got ready to leave we tried to wake steve but he said to leave him alone and let him sleep we could not get him up,by this time marta had come out of the room to see what the ruckus was,i told her steve had knocked out on usshe just laughed while he kept struggling for us to leave him alone and let him sleep.i told the guys to just leave him and. Her father looked at her, "Sit down baby. I have some news for you." What's wrong dad? I heard about the wreck on the radio and the murders, did we know any of them?" Tommy DeSalle and Francisco Gonzales, the plumber, were killed in the wreck. Steven Sheppard is at St Christopher's in Denver. They had to fly him there by helicopter. I don't know much more than that at the moment."Heather couldn't speak or breathe for what seemed an eternity. Her chest seemed to seize and the room started to. Being more a creature of the night then many in the area, as vampires kind of tend to be, he was often seen at parties, balls and operas throughout the city. His presence had in fact become an expected sight, but not tonight. He didn’t really care if the politely declined invitations caused sad sighs or annoyance, he was his own person and point blank, he wasn’t in the mood to be sociable tonight. All of this is how he came to be settled in his library, dressed in a loose cream shirt and dark.