CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
10:47 p.m.
Prime Auto Mall –McLaren, Maryland
Luke and Ed wore black.
They cruised slowly around the perimeter of the giant car dealership. They rode in a black Saab 9000 turbo, Luke at the wheel. It was an old car. They had taken it off the lot of a Saab mechanic two towns over. The mechanic apparently fixed these things up, then turned around and sold them. When he and Ed found this one, it had a sign in the windshield, listing it at $8,999.
Free was better.
In his younger days, Luke used to drag race along Route 1 down near the King’s Dominion amusement park in southern Virginia late at night. It wasn’t anything organized. It was just a long empty road, where a restless adrenaline junkie might happen upon other sleepless vampires just like him.
In those days, he
