26 "There you go, Mike," Steve said through the open partition separating the front seat from the rear. "Silas asked me to hang around for a little while and keep an eye on the place." They had pulled up in front of the church rectory where Michael was living. Michael stared up at the imposing stone facade. He was not looking forward to this; he had been gone a lot and Father Deluca would be pissed. It wasn't really fair, Father Deluca was a good man, but Michael could never tell him the truth about them, about Silas, about the world that he thought so orderly and structured in God's eye. Michael suspected Deluca knew something about what they did, at least he was sure he had some suspicions around Silas. Michael had once asked him why Silas lived in the basement of the church. Al

