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Janvier clenched his jaw, looked away before facing Raphael onceI don’t think anything could convince her to choose a life aht that“You didn’t sleep well,” he said, eyes on the dark sht I’ve ever had—I’ to touch hi up onto the bike War, his scent earthy and familiar, he er as taut
“I checked on the snowfall records,” he said “Last fall in Manhattan before the body was found was around ten pm, but there were earlier flurries”
“That still leaves us with afor the body dump” She chewed on the information as she put on the helht”
“No—there would’ve been too high a risk of being seen”
“It’s dark by roughly six, but the shops in that area are open and busy till eight, the restaurants for longer Even with the place next door to Rocco’s being closed at the ti duree” He stroked his hand over her thigh
She didn’t protest; there was so more tender than sexy in that touch and it closed up her throat “The autopsy’s starting soon,” she ain “Let’s go”
“There isn’t a drop of blood left in her,” the pathologist confirmed thirty minutes into his examination of the body, “but if this was a vampire, he’s the messiest eater I’ve ever seen I’ll do cross sections of her throat, but I don’t have s”
“Her other injuries?” Janvier asked, echoing Ashwini’s thoughts
“Long-terist pointed to a set of scars on the victih I’d hazard they weremarks elsewhere on her body Whoever fed from her didn’t bother to seal up the wounds except over major veins and arteries, and even there, he or she only did the bare ”
Ashwini’s best friend had been kidnapped and kept by a predatory group of va months Honor had survived, but she’d been brutalized Ashould never forget the wounds on her friend’s body when they’d found her, the despair in the ht have lost her friend forever
The woman on the steel table in front of her hadn’t been found in ti her terribly before they killed her
I’ll get justice for you, she proain “Were you able to confire, but frons of decomposition in the tissue she does have left, I’d say it ithin the past week”
“Any distinguishing marks on her body?”
“Tattoo on her outer left ankle of what looks like a rainbow-colored dolphin That has to be unusual”