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"Thought you’d never ask" He closed the knife and rose to his feet in a single fluid ?"

I kneas talking about rimaced "No Guess not"

"Pissed off is not the sa the way into the house

"I’ll re into town in the SUV, and shortly after that ere on Orleans Street, looking down cross streets It took a while, like, maybe half an hour, before we had narrowed the houses down to the ht have been classed as towers on them We parked on the street and made our way to the door

I smelled vamp and blood and put a hand on Eli’s arue as Beastthe various scents Eli watched un in each hand, but hidden out of sight behind his leg and behind my back "Blood-servants, too many to count, have been in and out of this house Va dead inside I think several sos"

"Recently dead? Human dead? How irlfriend"

I dreeapon as Eli holstered one of his and hit a single number He had Sylvia Turpin on speed dial Wasn’t that sweet? I didn’t say it, but it must have showed on hed softly as he said, "Syl We have a house in toith multiple DBs in it I’d rather not call it in to the city LEOs, but we need to see it We also have PsyLED in town, and we have not notified them How do you want to handle it?"

I heard her say over the phone, "It’s never too soon to start ca I’ll meet you there and call it in myself, if you don’t ave it to her, and the sheriff signed off with the words, "I’m close I’ll be there in twenty Meanwhile, stay out of my crime scene"

We sat parked in front of the old house until the sheriff’s car pulled in to the drive Sylvia got out of her unit, looking trio by--incredibly sexy

I got out, and we three met at the steps to the front door "Eli Yellowrock," she said "So how do you knoe have DBs inside?"

"I can s? Dead cat?"

"Nope"

I could see her thinking about calling the city cops for backup, but she decided not to

She shrugged at her own conclusion, saying, "If you’re wrong, if it is a dead dog, we’ll be wasting their ti stupid, which she left unsaid She went to the front door It was unlocked, and even Sylvia backed ahen the susted out She cursed under her breath and ended it with a head shake and the word, "Okay" She drew her weapon, off-safety’ed, and chambered a round She looked at Eli, and the sexual tension between theuessing you till follow me no matter what Wipe your feet, stay behindWhen I say back out, do it" She pushed open the door, and I steadied ht not have had para, but she knew her moves and stepped past the door fast, her back to the wall The foyer was clean, but the living room was aa teenager, and someone else had staked a vamp to the floor with a four-foot ash spike and then chopped off her head It hadn’t been an easy task Fro freely, which

The vamp was Esther McTavish The one potential lead we’d just found was already dead Whoever had killed her hadn’t been working alone From the bruises and talon cuts on her li vamps to hold her down and take her head

The scents on the still, chill air told un nuts searched the house as a weird form of courtship, I pulled my phone and snapped shots of the entire room and close-ups of the vamp I then followed my nose to a hidden door in the kitchen and opened it The charnel-house effluvia that burst fro a hippo, and I left the kitchen in a hurry When I met the happy couple in the hallway, I said, "I left the concealed baseo down the stairs and I don’t want to go down theo down the steps was because one of the bodies ed a hoarse breath and said, "And I recommend whoever does the brave deed wears a full biohazard suit It sue and killed and left unburied Those kinds of dead va and now-dead huraveyard"