Jamie by I D Johnson

Author:I D Johnson [Johnson, I D]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-20T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Macon, Georgia, USA 1890

Jamie stood in a valley, gazing up at a mansion atop a hill. He recognized the Italian Renaissance Revival architecture from some of the houses in his neighborhood which had been built around the same period from which this structure dated. The ornate pillars on either side of the entryway appeared to be made of marble, though it could’ve been the terra cotta often associated with architecture from the period. Most of the house was made of brick, and he imagined the view from the third-story would’ve been breathtaking back before any other houses came to occupy the area. Now, the yard was a mere acre and a half in front butting to a roadway that led to neighbors just a half-mile down the road, though the back of the house was still surrounded by rolling grasslands that ended in a forested area some distance from the house.

Georgia was an interesting territory to Jamie. Headed by a Guardian who had to have been around since before the American Revolution, the accents were more foreign to him than even the ones he’d encountered in his visits overseas, and he had a hard time understanding Bo, the Leader, whenever he gave instructions.

The group gathered at the base of the hill before the palatial home was relatively small in Jamie’s opinion, considering what they’d been tasked at doing. This house had been in the same family for half-a-century and was known to be the sort of place where people visited and never left. Col. Gage, the patriarch of the family, had fought, and died, in the Civil War, defending his home from General Sherman and his marauding soldiers who burned so many other homes in the area on his infamous march to the sea. If it hadn’t been for an apathetic bloodsucker, Col. Gage’s bones would be lying in a shallow grave somewhere instead of occupying his soulless body inside his house of horrors.

Though Bo wasn’t exactly sure how many other vampires resided here, the story went that Col. Gage had returned home and immediately turned his entire family and some of the house servants so that he’d never have to be alone. If that were the case, his wife, four daughters, two sons-in-law, and who knows how many former slaves dwelled in the 18,000 square foot home.

“Our mission,” Bo began, surveying his troops the best he could from his squatting position in front of the hill, “is to get in, slaughter all them sons of bitches, and get out unscathed.”

“Seems simple enough.” Margie had been assigned this same mission by Jordan Findley by coincidence, not because she or Jamie either one had been looking to join forces again. In fact, Jamie had been happy to be free of her ever since their last conflict in Boston, a town he hadn’t spent much time in since he’d come back from London almost two years ago. Findley had given him several other high-risk assignments, and he supposed he’d eventually be sent back to help out Ward and his team if they ever got a handle on the Ripper.

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