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met asphalt, and she'd be in no shape to demand anything more of me tonight, but she'd
heal. Quickly. Bed rest and fresh blood would put her back on her feet by tomorrow night.
But for tonight, I had won.
I peered over the edge of the roof. The headlights from a couple of stopped cars lit the
scene like something out of a Hitchcock movie. Liliana's body sprawled on the street,
twisted and disjointed as a scarecrow's. One driver yelled into his cell phone while the
other checked her pulse. Liliana's car pulled up, screeching to a halt from its short trip
around the block. All four goons piled out and went to work.
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Two held off the protesting drivers with handguns while the others grabbed the
unconscious vamp by the wrists and ankles and carried her to the car, reminding me of the
deer Albert and Dave used to haul out of the woods after a good morning's hunt. They'd
barely gotten her stowed and driven off into the night when sirens announced the arrival of
cops who, having seen damn near everything, would probably believe every detail of the
drivers' stories.
Considering the noise we'd made in the room before coming to the roof, I decided even
my I.D. might not stand between me and a visit to the police station. Not a comfy thought
with Vayl due any minute and dawn following him like a stray dog.
I ran down the stairs, gritting my teeth against the pounding my poor feet were taking.
When I got to the room I went straight to my socks, pulled them on and wrapped my
jacket around my feet before punching into my phone the special combination of numbers
that would provide me with some semblance of privacy while I talked. Ignoring the blood
spatters on the wall, I stared hard at the drawer pull on the end table next to my chair
while I waited for an answer. I got one on the 12th ring.
"Hullo?"
"Pete? It's Jasmine."
"Don't tell me you wrecked another car."
"Okay."
Medium pause. I heard rustling, probably him checking out his bedside clock because the
next thing he said was, "Do you know what time it is?"
"Not really."
Silence. I half expected him to start snoring.
"So why did you call at nearly four in the morning?"
"I didn't wreck the car."
"Spit it out, Jaz."
I winced. "Please don't yell at me."
"I'm not yelling."
"I know. But you might be. Soon."
"If you don't start passing on some real information soon I'm going to yell at my wife.
Then you'll have guilt."
"Manipulator."
"Spill."
I ran a hand through my hair and got Cirilai caught in some tangles. As I tried to free
myself I said, "I pushed a vamp off a roof tonight."
"Not part of the mission, but acceptable."
"Not really. The cops are coming up here soon, and they're not going to believe I'm
innocent when they see the bloodstains."
"Bloodstains?"
"I shot her first, here in the room. And her goons came and took her away while I was still
on the roof, so I have no proof she and I fought."
"Your badge "
" could be faked. I don't have the time to talk myself out of this situation, Pete. Dawn's
coming."
"All right, let me talk to them."
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"I heard sirens. They'll be here in a sec. In the meantime "
"Don't you dare sing me a lullaby."
"I wouldn't dream of it. I just wanted you to know, we think one of the senators on our
oversight committee might be dirty."
"They're politicians, Jaz. It kind of goes with the territory."
"You're tired, I get it." I told him about our suspicions, wondering how much really sunk
in. The guy might actually still be asleep. Dave could do that, carry on a perfectly logical
conversation with you in the middle of the night and then not remember anything about it
the next day because he'd been mostly asleep the whole time. "Pete, are you awake?"
"Yes, Jasmine, I'm awake. It's your fault too, I want you to remember that."
"Believe me, I will. And, um, we've got the senator thing covered from here, okay? If you
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