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field. Where?”
    He told him.
    “I’m coming. Don’t look around, just
wait for me.”
    “Austin. It’s too late. I’ve found it.”
    By the time Austin got to where he was
Dallas had shifted and pulled on the sweats that he had on him. Since his
brother Connor had told them it was easy to carry a small pack on their backs
when they were wolf, one that he’d designed that had breakaway straps, all of
them were able to dress wherever they went. He was standing over the mass grave
when Austin and Myles came up in a Jeep.
    “I didn’t know what to bring so we
loaded everything we could think of.” Myles was an ex-cop and a newly turned
vampire thanks to Phil and Holly saving him. “You figure out what it is yet?”
    “You tell me.” He led them over to the
shallow grave and pointed. “Male, female, human, animal, weres, and vampires. I’m
not sure on the last one whether or not it’s a vamp, though. The only dead
vamps I’ve seen were ash and this one is not.”
    “Christ,” Austin hissed. Dallas had to agree.
“They look like they’ve been here at least a week. How deep is this thing,
would you say?”
    Dallas knew. “There are seventeen
bodies. No children are in there, but someone was kind enough to put all the
adults’ identifications in that box there.”
    Myles walked over to it and opened the
steel box. He was thumbing through a wallet as Dallas continued.
    “Stacy and Connor spoke to Harvey today.
He said that he was responsible for burying the dead that Sterling killed. I
didn’t look at the book, but he gave it to Stacy and she said it had all the
places that he’d dug up. He didn’t want to go to the same place twice.”
    “So Sterling has been keeping track, or
at least someone is. This Harvey, how does he figure in all this?”
    Dallas shrugged at Myles’ question.
    “Do you think he’s in with the alpha?”
    Another Jeep pulled up and someone
walked toward them speaking. “No, he’s not. The alpha is his brother and killed
his family in order to keep him in line. Harvey is under the impression that he’s
nothing left to live for. Hello, Dallas. You can’t know how sorry I am for all
this.”
    Dallas turned away from his brother
Connor. He wasn’t too happy with him either.
    “What took you so long?” Austin looked
around when another car pulled up. “What the hell did you do, bring the entire
pack with you?”
    “No, just the ones I thought could help.”
    Phil came toward them as well as Holly. Dallas
didn’t want her to see this, but she walked right up to the dead and hopped
down in the hole. “This one was killed with a knife. I’d say a dagger. This one
on top…looks like a nine millimeter.” She moved along each body and told them
how they’d been killed and about how long they’d been dead. All of them less
than a week.
    “I’d say there are two vampires in that
mess, maybe one more, but no more than that. And they weren’t dead when they
were put in here, but died due to sun exposure.” Phil winked at his mate. “I
think they might not be day walkers like me.”
    “Ass,” she growled at him. “All the
others were killed someplace else and brought here. I’d say that they were
carried, so that would explain why there are no other tire tracks.” She got out
of the hole. “There’s something else you should know. The person on the bottom,
the male, he dug the hole.”
    “How do you know? Are there some markings
that gave that away?” Dallas flushed when she cocked a brow at him. “I’m sorry.
I’m having a shitty day.”
    “Yeah, heard about that.” She grinned. “Anyway,
the guy still has the shovel in his hands. Wrapped around it like he was still
in mid-dig when he was shot in the back of the head.”
    Holly was a former hit man…woman for the
government. When she’d retired Connor, Myles, and she opened an investigations
firm. Their business had been doing very well. In fact, they now had any other
member of the family working for