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Vahts in every bulletproof-glass , hurounds I pulled to the security gate and let myslide down "Jane Yellowrock to finish business and see Leo" The words sounded harsh, half growl, and I felt Beast pad to the front ofwith each step, sleek and predatory, and I wondered what the person on the far side of the security caate rolled open I parked out front and strode up the steps two at a ti h the air lock doors and stared at the triplets standing there, waiting to takebecause they looked at one another before speaking to rin that couldn’t have been pretty I said, "You can try I’ll leave you all three bleeding on the nice slicksotto voce into his mic "Jane Yellowrock is on the preerous"

"Good call," I said to the for the prisoners Wrassler was standing in the hallhen I got there, at parade rest, if parade restrelaxed, feet spread on the carpet, with two handguns drawn, held down beside his legs "Did Ed?" I asked

He nodded "All but the one who actually attacked you He saved that one for you"

"What did you learn?"

"No one liked the two tattooed securitywhat that likely iven you any trouble?"

"Not a peep We let the uninvolved ones go after Ed pink and a little too happy, by the way"

"Which war a peep froe Disquiet pattered down ertips on , "Okay Open it"

The s into the room At some point in the last instant, I’d drawn my weapons, a nine-mil in one hand, a vamp-killer in the other But I wouldn’t need them

Hawk Head was dead The hawk and scalp were on one side of the roo on the back of a chair like a stage prop The rest of the body was on the other side of the roole Or spread-hawk The body was posed like the raptor on the scalp He’d been beheaded, like a vamp

The room reeked with the stench of death He’d lost control of bladder and bowels Blood had sprayed over the ceiling and walls Prey, Beast thought at ue and roof of h nose, in little spurts of breath The blood set a taste of the killer

Wrassler was behindup with people Filling up with srowled and the place went silent I studied the blood spray on the wall in front of me "The killer was between five-seven and five-ten" Without turning around, I said, "Wrassler Get on the cameras I want to see every person who cae" The cops would want to see it too Dead humans meant human cops on the premises "And call Jodi Give her a heads-up before you call nine-one-one"

I heard Wrassler move away and knew that Derek had taken his place Didn’t sh indeath the way only a true predator can Closer, she demanded