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That was a shock, but a good one "Say what?" Paulo Ortega was the drug king pin whose tunnels I’d used to escape Raul was his baby brother and right-hand man Paulo was a violent psycho who ruled his own private army with an iron fist and practically unlienerally used in that order I’d been scheduled to testify about the tunnels and the vampires in them I wondered what had happened Had the Mexican authorities decided--or been convinced--not to prosecute?

Dawna continued, "Rizzoli didn’t say, but I actually knohy I read about this online The border patrol found scattered re after the full , and it’s Paulo and Raul It looks as if they got on the wrong side of a pack of olves"

Wow What an ugly way to go Als I’d heard they’d ordered I couldn’t say I was sorry I bet it was Maria’s family Paulo had learned the hard way that payback is a bitch

Literally

"Celia? You still there?"

"I’m here I wouldn’t wish that on anybody, but I can’t say they didn’t deserve it"

"That’s aluy rote the online article said"

I believed it Thinking about the Ortegas, though, reood Not the kind ofelse?"

"Yup When you get back, the INS and the DEA both want to meet with you and have you map out as much of the tunnels as you can remember Oh, and the Levys are on their way to Serenity with the dresses and they are gorgeous You are going to look so a! Bruno’s finished your joint present for Adriana and King Dahl on it in the same office with Jan, he had it checked to make sure it hadn’t been tampered with, and it’s fine Emma swears it’s the best focus she’s ever seen, even better than the mirror you hadat the college I’d assunift for Adriana, as a fairly powerful clairvoyant And Dahl her was sure to please hi it with him when he flies out to Rusland He doesn’t want to risk letting it out of his sight until then"

I didn’t bla business and valuable as hell Even the express courier companies won’t insure them for full value They’re just too likely to be stolen "He’s sending you his itinerary by e- Bruno made me sh to guess

"I’m supposed to tell you he loves you and he’s really, really sorry Just between the two of us, I’ to be able to hold that whole body bind thing over his head for quite a while"

I laughed "Maybe" Probably not Then again, he really shouldn’t have done it And I did not want hi that kind of crap

"Ready for the less good news?"

I groaned "I suppose"

"Dottie caot Minnie the Mouser"

"What?" That was a shock Fred and Dottie lived in governotten me to take in her adored cat Minnie after a friend--a cop--who’d been looking after her died in the line of duty Since I’one so much, we’d made her the office cat We all loved the silly furball She was spoiled rotten

"Dottie said it was only for a couple of days, that she didn’t want her getting underfoot with the h, come to think on it, we could’ve just locked her in my office for a couple of hours I wondered ifI wouldn’t put it past her

Dawna continued "But she was acting all weird and sad She wandered around the whole place, even up to the third floor"

I rolled my eyes Of course she had I’d told Dottie a million times not to take the stairs with that walker of hers But did she listen? Oh hell no

"She told me to ship all of your boxes--the ones in the storeroom--to your house She was so insistent that I went ahead and did it I hope you don’t mind"