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"As if," she disot plenty of hours in the field when it coonna read your vahts?" Colin asked, "Because I hadn’t planned to"
She winked at him "I knew there was a reason I liked you, Murphy"
"So, why’d you quit the LAPD?"
"You Googledinto his kitchen and looking around "Police work is too much of a boy’s club, despite all the equal opportunity crap Being a PI suited me better, let me work on ," Robbie muttered
"You be nice, Robbie, or I’ll report you to Irina," Leighton said, co room
"Like that’ll work Irina had nothin’ but syhton grinned and punched hinificant others, Leighton, Raphael’s your husband?"
Her s, he’s h Bossy like one, anyway But I like to think of him as my boyfriend It sounds cuter"
Her s suddenly, covering it with a cough while Leighton pounded hiured poor Robbie would have plenty of bruises to show for his bodyguard effort today He also noticed Leighton had switched out the expensive diaer for a simple platinum band Maybe she really did have some field experience, after all
"Besides," she continued, brushing her hands together and propping them on her hips "I like a person’s first impression ofabout how someone--someone human, that is--could find out where Marco and the others lived They didn’t exactly advertise their whereabouts and you’re all pretty spread out here It’s not like a person could just drive down streets until they found a house You can’t even see hway and half the roads go nowhere"
"Yeah, Coop’s just one of several unincorporated towns up here There’s a few thousand people spread out over a couple hundred thousand square ton state Anyone with online access or a lot of tihton nodded "But that would only tell them the owner of record, not who actually lives there Plus--and I’ you to be discreet with this, Murphy--most vamps own their property under an alias, or even several different ones When you live a few hundred years, it’s sometimes necessary to make it look like the property’s been sold, or the owner’s died and the heirs have taken over or whatever If nothing else, these recent e"
"I can see that," Colin agreed "But if we scratch property records, I don’t need to tell you that means there’s ot so up on that, too"
"And you’ll share what you find," Colin said, giving her a flat look
"We’ll share," she assured hihts, either"
"Can’t say I blame him Not in this case, anyway On a separate track," Colin continued, "Loren gavefrom Marco and Preston’s places Electronicswas taken froure that’s because they trashed everything looking for hiot too late and they ran before the sun went down I don’t think they’d been gone all that long when I showed up"
"Pawn shops?" Leighton asked
"Not here in town, but I’ve already got feelers out down in the city A couple of guys on the force down there are forether once in a while, play poker, talk about old ti about Nobody ever invites hed
"Aw," Robbie crooned syahtfully "Does she cheat?"
Leighton grinned "Only when I have to"
"You’re in"
"What about hate groups?" Leighton said, picking up the previous conversation thread "You guys have any ho maybe they’ve added vampires to their list of Untermenschen," Colin commented "That’s certainly possible Mostly, they’re over the state line, but we’re close enough to get a few outliers"