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"I an of the Twelve "And you are very, very wealthy"

"No, I’uard for reals You’rethe doorbell The Chandlers had a hts with a well-enous flowers "Affianceds can’t be bodyguards to their better halves Bodyguards have to keep their distance," I explained as aited "They can’t get too attached to their subject uarding They have to keep a cool, level head and stay detached, lest they let their e – euard I need a Chihuahua with a dialanced atto hs so I could bring Zeus along When I carried hiet away

"I so don’t look like a wouard I look like a bohelanced up at him "Are you sure you’re okay? You were allanced around again "I just think we should be looking at the bigger picture"

"Which is?" I asked as the door opened

"Twelve angry hellhounds that want nothing more than to rip out your throat and sup on your blood"

Thankfully, there was a glass door between Mrs Chandler and us, and Reyes had said those last words softly

I pasted on lass door She was a pleasant-looking lady in her mid-fifties with short brown hair she probably had done every week at the beauty shop After digging outReyes as my associate, Mr Farrow, and ere there I doubt she heard a e said

She let us in, her eagerness to find her husbandher desperate I was surprised at the lack of uniforent She sniffed into a tissue as we sat in her pristine living rooain "Was that your husband’s handwriting on the suicide note?"

"No," she said, raising her chin "Like I told the police, that’s his handwriting when he’s drunk"

"He’d been drinking?"

She stood and ru us a coin No, a chip A sobriety chip from Alcoholics Anonymous

"This is his nine-year chip He carries his ten-year chip with him everywhere He hasn’t taken a sip of alcohol since…" She turned away froather herself When she turned back, her expression was filled with vehele sip in all that ti and suicidal? Just out of the blue like that?"

"Mrs Chandler, do you know any of these people?" I asked, slipping three pictures out of the file I carried and showing them to her They were the other three suicide-note victiure out as doing this And why