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I sat in a van withthe sale of three hundred surface-to-air h-powered explosives He was acting as the front nizable With Dave's extensive round, he could talk shop with the best of the black rade of plastique for the potential car bombs

No one spoke in the van We could hear every word ourselves, so that meant any undead ears trained in our direction could as well Cooper and Juan rechecked their uns, which were equipped with silver bullets That houls, but it would make a vampire's day very unpleasant Our nu noticed that way

Spade was there, picking at his fingernails as the tiun Master vampires like him and Bones didn't need to, since they eapons themselves Deadly ones

The modified bulletproof bodysuit I wore chafed underneath , a thin, flexible piece that covered all the ans and looked like a ot blown off, it wouldn't do ood, but the rest of me was protected Cooper and Juan were also outfitted with the sareatly increased with this versus the old bulky vests

"not going to give you a fking di "I'o back to er mechanism ork or maybe it won't, praise Allah and it will You stupid amateurs There is so much shit for sale now, I don't need to puy around with this Blue Light Special quality at Rembrandt prices, so fk off and have a nice day"

He must have started to walk away, because there was a scurry of footsteps behind him

"Wait a an before he was cut off by a laugh Bones stiffened beside et

"Harrison, I'll take it from here," a cool voice interrupted

We slid the van door open and crept out Spade and Bones went first, their lack of heartbeats being an advantage The rest of us would follow after the attack started The element of surprise was priceless

"Who are you?" Dave asked, sounding annoyed "Another lackey?"

"I'm Domino, and yes, I am the boss," was the icy reply "You must excuse this saet undercover officers posing as buyers, but they can't tell the difference between a bomb or a basket You clearly know your merchandise, however Even if I've never heard of you"

This last part was colder than the first, and with open suspicion Dave grunted

"Howaround your business that lost their pulses? Last I checked, the police academy hasn't called for undead admissions"

"Ah, but there is always a first time, isn't there? Now then, I have other business to attend to Logan, bring out the other crates We need to finish this up-"

Do just before the explosion Hebefore the two bombs that had been thrown into the warehouse detonated The staccato burst of gunfire that erupted along with screaured

Juan, Cooper, and I sprinted toward the structure where fla our heads doe returned fire In the blackness, I saw hu to locate the cause of the bodies on the ground Our es They kept the guards' attention on us while Spade and Bones slaughtered, and we took out several targets oals in thekilled, or getting away

Juan grinned wolfishly and chanted unknown taunts in Spanish as we breached the perihted down his ht curl to his lips For hilee

Once close enough, I threw the gun away in favor of my knives, which were my favorite weapon Almost as fast as I'd fired the bullets, I threw off silver blades at the rehters The hu at chests as the knives sank home

So s at bay The vaan to shrivel as I ja him off, I whirled to face the next one

It was a human about to fire point-blank in my direction I spun in a ely amused by the dumbfounded expression he wore as none of theun out of the man's hands and turned it on hiround

The next three vaes and powers I dispatched them with my knives as Juan and Cooper unloaded round after round into the re forces that had lost their for one another, as our attack continued Inside the warehouse I hearddealt Choked curses and fruitless scraet away Out of the corner of my eye I saw Dave, Domino trapped underneath him, a silver blade near the vampire's heart

For a aze an to struggle harder

Dave cracked his head against the paveh to fracture his skull It wouldn't kill him It would just take him time to heal it

Everything began to get quiet soon after Intermittent shouts were cut off before they could be colance around showed an to surrender Strapped towith the myriad of weapons, was a cell phone I dialed Don and let him know to hold off any police that would have been alerted by the explosions Severalfor this call They would keep the Canadian authorities at bay while we finished up here

There was a sudden whoosh of air abovestayed in my hand as Bones dropped fro hiaze around to the va

"Why hallo, Domino Do you knoho I am?"

Bones gestured for Dave to let Do hirip Juan and Dave rounded up the few re survivors

Do of this?"

It was an outright lie Do to me

Bones s to make me beat the truth out of you? My favorite way to work"

Even I blinked at the suddenness of his , the next they were ripped off and in Bones's hands Ew

New body parts hurt when they grew back So I'd been told, anyway Domino screamed like that was true

"Still don't know ets you"

"Stop," Domino shouted "I know you, but I didn't knohat the missile was for I swear to Cain I didn't know!"

A dark brow arched "Max didn't pay you himself, so who did?"

Domino stared with fascinated revulsion at his own liround in front of hi"

"You don't want me to do that," Bones said softly He leaned closer until he was mere inches from Domino's face "Because if I let you live, you'll wish I hadn't Or I can kill you here Much easier that way See, I believe you when you say you didn't knohat that et a choice, but either way, youwill tell what I want to know"

I watched as denial, hope, despair, and bitter acceptance flashed on Domino's face

"The money ired, I don't knoho froiven an account number to transfer it into, but he didn't handle it hi me to see if the ot i about a deadline"