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As he led her quickly doard, she expected dank earth--with a coffin in thelike her expectations There was a canopied bed instead of a coffin, the floor was red brick with a Persian carpet, and there were attractive paintings on the walls, along with a massive entertainment center

There was also a sail, still wrapped in her sheet, was greedily drinking froe pitcher

Of blood

Fiona could feel her eyes widening

"Don’t look at ’s blood You eat bacon, right?"

"I wasn’t staring at you," she said "I’m used to blood I’m the Keeper, remember?"

He nodded and touched her cheek He didn’t say anything, but the look in his eyes seemed to wrap around her heart

What the hell had they done? she wondered There were going to be terrible repercussions froht She was sure of it

"I have to ask you to stay here, toteach Abigail," he said

"No! Youhave to teach her," Fiona said

"I’ve already been called about her corpse being stolen," Jagger said "I’m the detective on the case, re to protest, but then Abigailsound, and she knew so

"But I’e It will help you," he advised "Please, Fiona"

She nodded jerkily "All right And, Jagger, an asseht"

"Good It will definitely be necessary"

"My sisters will be calling me soon"

"I’ll be back as soon as I can," he swore

With that, he pulled her to hione, and she was left with a naked young woood If Jagger reht as well behis part so well

Tony was already there at the ht-shift employees and a city security officer Tony had started questioning Billy Harrington, but he took a break and pulled Jagger aside the minute he arrived

"He was hit on the head with a computer keyboard He doesn’t knohy someone took the body Why the hell steal a corpse?" Tony asked

Jagger jerked his head in a ested he couldn’t fathom the question himself Then he pulled up a chair across the desk where Billy Harrington was sitting, an ice bag pressed against his temple

"What happened, son?" he asked

Billy looked at hi paperwork The next thing I kneoke up on the floor with a cop standing over ue personnel "No one saw anything?" he asked

"Nothing," said a buxo at all And the door was still locked"

"Thereembarrassed, people ran to check other possible means of entry

To his astonishotten to lock one of the doors where the bodies heeled in froue As accusations began to fly aer

He lifted a hand, stopping the flow of conversation, and sighed "The crime scene unit will be here shortly We’ll do our best to settle this as quickly as possible, butto have a field day"

Several people urged Billy to go to a hospital, but he adareed

"You’re going to take the kid hoet hiuess is that soht there to find out what it is Go houys handle the scene Get so to be hell"

A few er led Billy out to his car