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"Rafael," Samantha said, very patiently, "I’d love to hear about your dreams all day, but this blood on s to the decapitated head sitting in your sink"

He didn’t believe her, not until he saw it for hi woled from her lobes while her clouded eyes stared up at hihastly smile The head had been placed so neatly in his sink that its fluids dripped directly into the open drain

"Trick-or-treat," Samantha muttered

"Someone must have broken in and put it here while I slept," he said The decapitation, he saw from the condition of the neck stump, had been performed precisely and cleanly, with a perfectly level blade "Can you tell where she was killed?"

Samantha placed her hand, scarred in the center palm from the bullet of a hired killer, into the s the drain Her pupils narrowed to splinters of black, and a flush rose fro blade, torture roo down a narrow hallway Darkness, wait, she keeps zoning out Redhead in aDarkness Table, brown haired man Hand on her hand and… oh, my God" Her face white now, she snatched her hand out of the sink and scrubbed at it with a towel "Is that what he does? He s? Relive theht of Daniela and how coiven herself to hiirl?" she countered "Why did he kill her and bring her head to your aparth clenched teeth "What did you smell?"

"So ashtray Or Evan Tenderson But I repeat myself" Her mobile phone beeped, and it seemed to calm her as she answered it "Brown" She listened

Rafael quickly searched the apart in it He went back to Samantha

"Ten minutes," she said as she ended one call and made another

"What now?"

"Bad news" Into the phone, she said, "Burke? It’s Sauys over here to Rafael’s place To move the kidnapped nun I’m not supposed to know about to a safer place so the nutcase zombie vampire you’re not supposed to tell me about doesn’t kill her There’s also a decapitated head in the sink I’d appreciate it" She switched off the phone "Pack it up We’ve got work to do"

He didn’t wish to leave Daniela in the care of others "Sairl in front of Club Dominion He left a note addressed to you He wrote it in blood on the torso" She tossed her keys to hiet down to the club before Tenderson does, read the et rid of it"

Dani woke up to the s the handcuffs binding her wrists to Rafael’s head board "What are you doing here?"

"Trying not to think of ways to off my partner" She tossed the cuffs aside and checked Daniela’s arms, which were still somewhat bruised, and chafed her wrists "I’m so sorry about this, Ms Nieves"

"It’s Dani Don’t be upset, Detective, please I’ht she’d shared with Rafael "I guess I should tell you that I’m not really a nun"

"Rafael mentioned it a couple dozen times I can’t say I’enuine smile "Call me Sam"

She looked over Samantha’s shoulder "Where is Rafael?"

"I kicked hi Dani’s clothes, which were scattered all around the bed "I need you to get dressed We’re going to move you to a safer place, keep you there until we can catch this guy"

"Donatien is co for me," Dani told her bluntly "I’htened and sniffed the air "Do you smoke?"

Dani could se, in the cole The dead fires