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Bria surveyed the blood and bodies that littered the once-pristine suite After a hed and shook her head

"Nohat?" she asked "Because these dead guys aren’t just going to disappear Not with Sophia back in Ashland And we can’t just leave them here Like you said, the room’s into call the cops and explain all this to the tone in her voice and stood there, thinking,around the rooaze lit on the patio doors, and an idea popped into my head

"Uh-oh," BriaThe question now is exactly how bad is it, and do I really want to know about it?"

"Don’t worry, baby sister It’s nothing too dark or sinister - this tiet rid of these bodies easy peesy"

Her eyes narroith suspicion "And how the hell are we going to do that?"

I s to dued into jeans, sneakers, and a T-shirt and packed up our things My clothes were dark enough to hide the blood that had spattered onto theo out into the hallway, grab the luggage cart that had been left by the elevator, and roll it into the suite Then I stripped off the linen jacket the valet earing and wrestled his body onto the cart I put him on the bottom and piled Pete on top of him, to hide the valet’s wounds As a final touch, I threw the valet’s jacket over Pete to cover up his injuries as best I could

"Are you sure this is going to work?" Bria asked, eyeing the haphazard way I’d stacked the bodies on the cart "They’re going to get rug burn fro off the side like that"

"Well, they’re dead, so I doubt it will bother them," I replied "Now let’s roll them onto the elevator"

Bria helped me push the cart out of the suite and down to the end of the hall I stabbed the button for the elevator Since ere on the third floor, we didn’t have to wait too long for it to arrive Given the late hour, the car was e to cheerfully say my friends had had toothem to their room Not the best excuse I’d come up with, but I didn’t have time to be more creative or clever

For once, round floor without seeing anyone Given the fact that the hotel didn’t have any security cameras in the hallways, elevators, or co us on a screen so to see ere up to

I stepped outside and checked tothe pool, but the area was deserted Even the bonfires had burned out on the beach I cranedat the many stories above me, but I didn’t see anyone else out on their patio The night was as still, dark, and quiet as it was going to get

"Still clear inside," Briaback into the hotel "But are you sure you want to do this? Soiven howdownoff their buzz or holding on tight to their honeys right now Even if they do hear so, they’ll probably just think it’s so a little fun Besides, I don’t see hoe have much of a choice," I said "As you pointed out, Sophia isn’t here to clean up the mess like she usually is, and we can’t exactly leave the bodies in the rooo Heave-ho These guys aren’t getting any warreement I couldn’t tell which exactly, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to know

We pushed the cart out onto the patio and up to the edge of the pool Thankfully, the wheels didn’t squeak We started with Pete, since he was on top Bria grabbed his legs while I took hold of his shoulders

"One, two, three," I whispered

Together we rolled his body off the valet’s and into the deep end of the pool Bria was right - the splash was louder than I’d thought it would be, but there was nothing I could do about that now We quickly pushed the valet into the pool as well before shoving the cart back toward the door TentwentythirtyI counted off the seconds in my head as orked It took us ninety seconds to duhts snapped on around the pool and no one cah to do the saiant would fit on the cart at a time, so we had to make two e cart, took it downstairs, and du to make as little noise as possible By the tirown lily pads bobbing up and down in the pool, and the shi blue water had turned aout of the men’s wounds It wasn’t the best or most discreet body dump I’d ever done, but hopefully no one would notice the dead one by then

"Now," I said, pushing the cart away froo upstairs and tackle the roo, and the kitchen was fully stocked right down to a box of rubber gloves and a wide assort supplies under the sink, probably so the maids wouldn’t have to push their carts into the roorabbed a pair of gloves, a bucket, sos, and a bottle of bleach

Since I’d killed three of the ht inside the door, most of the blood was limited to the marble floor there The stone had already taken on a darker, more somber sound as the blood had started to dry on top of it I splashed bleach over the whole area and wiped it down three ti sure she cleaned up all the melted traces of her elee cart with bleach and cleaned our fingerprints off the brass rails

It was after one in thee finished I stepped back and surveyed the suite with a critical eye The area wasn’t as pristine and spotless as it would have been if Sophia had been here and used her Air eleness, but the bleach would ht destroy This wasn’t the first murder scene I’d cleaned up on my own, and it wouldn’t be the last

Besides, nobody but Randall Dekes knew that the men had been sent to our suite in the first place He couldn’t exactly cootten aithhimself Despite how rich and powerful Dekes was, I doubted that even he would want to deal with the hassle of four dead bodies, how they’d gotten that way, and where they’d co him, the vampire would probably claim he’d never set eyes on any of the men before - even if everyone already knew they worked for hiht be hundreds of miles away from Ashland, but sociopathic assholes were the sas, and e and shoved the whole thing into my suitcase to dispose of at another, safer location I also stopped long enough to put a fleece jacket on overthe bleach stains on my dark clothes Then Bria and I locked the suite and left On our way to the elevator, we left the luggage cart in the hallhere I’d first found it