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The room smelled of candle wax and death. In their fat, jewel-toned
holders, the candles had pooled into dripping puddles. The body lay in a
lake-sized bed canopied with silk, mounded with a multitude of pillows,
and stained with blood.
She was young, blond, with a bright red dress rucked up to her waist. Her
eyes, a crystal green, were open and staring.
As she studied the body of Tiara Kent, Lieutenant Eve Dallas wondered
if the dead blonde had looked into her killer’s eyes as she died.
She’d known him, in any case, almost certainly she’d known him. There
was no sign of forced entry, and in fact, the security system had been shut
down from the inside, by the victim. There was no sign of struggle. And
though Eve was certain they’d find the victim had engaged in sexual
intercourse, she didn’t believe it would prove to be rape.
She hadn’t fought him, Eve thought as she bent over the body. Even
when he’d drained the blood out of her, she hadn’t fought him.
“Two puncture wounds, left side of the throat,” Eve stated for the record.
“The only visible injury.” She lifted one of Tiara’s hands, examined the
perfectly shaped, fussily painted nails. “Bag the hands,” she told her
partner. “Maybe she scratched him.”
“Not as much blood as you’d think there should be.” Detective Peabody
cleared her throat. “Not nearly enough. You know what they look like, on
her neck there? Bite marks. Like, ah, fangs.”
Eve spared Peabody a glance. “You think that ugly little dog the maid’s
got in the kitchen bit her on the neck?”
“No.” Peabody angled her head, leaned down with her dark eyes wide
and bright. “Come on, Dallas, you know what it looks like.”
“It looks like a DB. It looks like the vic had a date that went over the top.
There’s going to be illegals in her system, something that dulled her down
or hyped her up enough for her killer to jab something into her throat, or,
yeah, sink his teeth into it if he had the incisors filed to points or was
wearing an appliance.
Then he bled her out, and she lay there and let him.”
“I’m just saying it looks like your classic vampire bite.”
“We’ll put out an APB on Dracula. Meanwhile, let’s find out if she was
—just possibly—seeing someone with a heartbeat.”
“Just saying,” Peabody repeated, this time in a mumble.
Eve did another scan of the bedroom before stepping out and into the
enormous dressing room area.
Bigger than a lot of apartments, she mused, and outfitted with a security
screen, entertainment screen, full round of mirrors. The closet itself was a
small department store, ruthlessly organized into categories.
For a moment, Eve stood with her hands on her hips and simply stared.
One person, she thought, with enough clothes to outfit the Upper West Side,
and more than enough shoes to shod every man, woman, and child in that
sector. Even Roarke—and Eve knew her husband’s wardrobe was awesome
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