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RULE ONE OF trying to break someone down: Isolate them Zerbrowski separated the vauard theone to back up Marshal Larry Kirkland, but a second tea SWAT with lad to see the manpower, and the skill level I needed soeant Greco and explained what I needed He passed it on to his men, and I knew that they would do their best to wound and not kill Not every shooter, noat theot to have nerves of steel and the o with it; SWAT would have that or they wouldn&039;t be on the team in the first place There were other police officers in uniform and plainclothes that had what it took, but those were officers I knew had that set of nerve and skill; with SWAT there was no guesswork, they had to have that set of skills or they wouldn&039;t stay on the team

Zerbrowski had the dead vampires divided up into five rooms, which was how many live, uninjured vampires we had to question I went to ear Zerbroould spend the ti at our suspects, so he could ht break first My only job was to scare the hell out of them I was the threat, the ood cop, or at least the less scary cop

To be as scary as needed, I had to get h the bodies that were lying on the uneven bricks On TV they cover the bodies hite sheets, but in real life sheets do not ically appear to drift down effortlessly on the dead We&039;d had only two ambulances on site when it all went down, and their resources of sheets, blankets, everything had gone to the living and wounded, the ones that could be saved They&039;d thrown out a few body bags, but hadn&039;t had ti the bodies Sos like dark plastic blankets over the youngest-looking vampire dead, the ones that looked like children Maybe they&039;d been old enough to be everyone&039;s grandparents agewise, but the bodies looked junior high age, high school at best The adult-looking dead stared up, sightless, unh theh the field of bodies with their eyes averted, as if looking at the dead bothered them I looked at the dead, because they were dead vampires and I hadn&039;t shot them all myself I hadn&039;t made certain that every last body was safely dead Vampires are tricky; even hospitals with full equip certain when final death occurs Brain scans were the only close certainty, and even that tech was in its infancy for vampire use How do you tell when the undead are dead?

I stopped beside a randfather, as if soent had picked him to look sad and pitiful dead on the uneven bricks Maybe I&039;d feel syht that second I was e on the body The bullet wound on him looked too low for a heart shot, and his head see so shouldn&039;t have killed a vampire

"It doesn&039;t bother you to look at them, does it?" Urlrich ca away froave a low, very masculine chuckle It was a sound I&039;d heard before; it was a sound of approval, and surprise Men never expected me to be able to keep up with theer than I was; I was female, and petite It was a triple threat to either o was fine, but his expectations had been given a kick in the ass

"They&039;re saying you&039;re going to cut the bodies up in front of the other va the body on the ground

"I&039;ll help you carry your equipment inside"

Thatet a better view of the shine in his eyes He was angry, but it was the kind of anger that filled the eyes with light and gave a little color to the face If he&039;d been a woht have told hiry

"Your partner is going to heal, right?"

He nodded, but his eyes had narrowed and now the anger looked like what it was: hatred He had a hard-on for, or against, va hatred when I saw it I debated asking hiuy code to question it that bluntly I could do that with officers I kneell - they gave irl - but with new officers I had to be one of the guys Guys didn&039;t ask about emotions unless they had to; I didn&039;t have to, I just wanted to, so I let it go - for now

"I want to watch their faces," he said