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Before the pair of them walked into the house, they paused to check out the door The lock hadn&039;t been busted open, and the security syste

Made no sense If a slayer had co the bell, he wouldn&039;t have been let in by a doggen No way So the lessers h the front door

And sure as shit they&039;d been busy There was a path of blood on the grand Oriental rug in the marble foyer¡ªand it wasn&039;t made up of drops; it was like someone had used a paint roller with the shit

The red streak ran between the study and the dining room

Z went left toward the study Phury pulled a rightie and went into the dining¡ª

"I found the bodies," he said gruffly

He knehen Z sahat he was looking at, because the brother growled, "Holy htered parents were sitting upright in chairs at the far end of the table, their shoulders tied back so they&039;d stay upright Blood had leaked frolossy floor at their feet

Candles were lit Wine was poured On the table between the bodies was a beautiful roasted chicken, so fresh from the oven you could smell the meat over the stench of blood

The bodies of two doggen were seated in chairs to the left and the right of the sideboard, the dead to serve the dead

Phury shook his head "How much you want to bet there are no other bodies in the house Or they&039;d be lined up here as well"

The fine clothes of Lash&039;s parents had been carefully straightened, hisas they should, his father&039;s tie and jacket all arranged Their hair was a mess and their wounds were Rob Zombie raw, but their bloodstained clothes were perfect They were like two morbid Kewpie dolls

Z pounded his fist into the wall "Sick fucking bastards those fucking lessers are ill"

"For real"

"Let&039;s go through the rest of the place"

They checked the library and theThe butler&039;s pantry was untouched The kitchen showed evidence of a struggle consistent with two killings, but that was all¡ªthere was no sign of where the break-in had occurred

The second floor was clean, the lovely bedrooht out of House Beautiful with their toile drapes and their antiques and their luxurious duvets On the third floor, there was a suite worthy of a king that, going by the textbooks on guns and , as well as the computer shit and the stereo system, had been Lash&039;s crib It was neat as a pin

In the whole house, save for where the killings had been co was stolen

They went back downstairs, and Zsadist quickly examined the bodies while Phury ran a check on the security systee

When he was finished, he went back to his twin "I hacked into the alarh a code or a power outage"

"Wallet&039;s not on the uy&039;s Ebel is still on his wrist Feer and a pair of dime-sized flashers in her earlobes"

Phury put his hands on his hips and shook his head "Two infiltrations, here and at the clinic Both with no looting"

"At least we kno they found this place I mean, shit, Lash was abducted and tortured until he talked Only way He wouldn&039;t have had ID on him when he was taken from the clinic, so the addy had to have come from his own mouth"

Phury looked around at all the art on the walls "Soht here Nor they took the father&039;s wallet, the real assets are no doubt in the bank If they can get access to those accounts, it would be a cleaner way to rob"

"But why leave all this shit?"

"Where are you?" Rhage&039;s voice echoed through the foyer

"In here," Z called out

"We have to let the other faiven up his own address, God only knohat else was peeled out of him This could be a leak of unprecedented ie walked into the rooht back to Hohed

"Do we kno they got in?" the cop asked, walking around the table

"No, but let&039;s go through the house again," Phury said "I just can&039;t believe they walked right through the front door"

When the four of the their heads

Phury looked around the rooet word out"

"Well, look at this," Zto a

Down at the foot of the driveway, a car turned in Then another Then a third

"There&039;s your looters," the brother said

"Fuckers," Rhage bit out with a gri¡ªI need to work off dinner"

"And it&039;d be so dareet them at the door," Butch muttered

Instinctively, Phury reached to open his coat, but then reet to

There was a split second of aardness, during which no one would look at hio back to the coly"

The three nodded and jogged for the stairs

As they pounded down to welcoon the lessers, Phury took one last look around the bedroo the sons of bitches who had done this

The wizard faced off at hiht with you anymore because they can&039;t trust you Soldiers don&039;t want to be backed up by someone they have no faith in

Face it, mate, you&039;re finished on this side The question is, how long until you ruin it with the Chosen?

Just as Phury was about to dematerialize, he frowned

Across the way, on the dresser, there was a s on one of the brass drawer pulls

He went over for a closer look Dark brown it was dried blood

When he opened the drawer, there were bloody finger-prints on the objects inside: the Jacob & Co iced-out watch Lash had worn before his transition had ses on it, and so did a dia had obviously been taken out of the little drawer, but ould a lesser leave such expensive things behind? It was hard to iine ould be worth more than all those dialanced around at the Sony VAIO laptop and the iPod and the dozen other drawers in the room that were divvied up between the desk and the bureau and the bedside tables All of theht

"You have to leave"

Phury turned around Z was standing in the doorway, gun drawn

"Get the fuck out of here, Phury You&039;re not arlanced over at the desk where a couple of knives lay on the textbooks "In a heartbeat"

"Go" Z bared his fangs "You&039;re not helping here"

The first sounds of the fighting drifted up the staircase in a series of grunts and barked curses

As his twin took off to defend the race, Phury watched Z go Then he dematerialized fro center&039;s office