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blue fire, to take care of the remains. There are no bodies to
find. Titus thought it was for another job I have coming, so he
won’t think anything of it.”
    So it was Lash who took care of Devlin’s
business, of at least some of the killing that needed doing.
Shudder.
    “Tasha’s father had sent them,” Lash
continued. “I made Satar call Karl, made him tell Karl that he’d
best forget his daughter, that she was dead. That it was me who
killed her, not Theo. That if he was still looking for vengeance,
he knew where to find me. And if he tried for me, I’d be coming
back to Russia to kill him.”
    “You killed Tasha?” I whispered.
    “Yes,” Lash hissed back, his easy reply
making me shiver. “It was business, Sar, just like it is sometimes
for Theo. She was scared enough of me that she told me everything,
without me even touching her. Her death was a quick one, quicker
than she deserved, after all she had done.” He paused. “My end’s
done now, Sar.”
    Not by a long shot. “What did you mean about
going back to Russia to see Karl?” I asked sharply. “When were you
there?”
    Lash swore.
    “Tell me, Lash. I gave you my word. I’ll
stick to it, so long as you tell me the truth.”
    “The truth is that Devlin sent me to look for
Theo more than a year after he went missing. Danial asked me to
from the first, but I refused. Devlin finally asked me to, when he
saw how crazy not knowing was driving his brother. I never expected
to find Theo. It had been so long since he had disappeared. But it
took me only a month to follow his trail. I found him in
Russia.”
    I couldn’t speak, I was too furious.
    “Sarelle, listen to me,” Lash said in a
dangerously soft tone. “Theo had already been bespelled. When I
found him that night, he was in bed having sex with that girl. I
heard him tell her he loved her, that he wanted to be with her
always. When I called Devlin and reported everything to him, he
told me to do nothing. To just come home, and leave Theo
alone.”
    “Why?” I shouted, tears falling from my eyes.
“How could you find him and not tell—?”
    “Because I’d found Theo, and he wanted
clearly not to be found,” Lash answered. “There was a phone there
beside the bed they were on. He could have used it to call you or
Danial anytime. He didn’t want to come back, or have anything to do
with his old life. Devlin was worried about you. He thought that
once you knew, you might be upset enough to lose your baby. You
were pregnant then with Theoron. He couldn’t even tell Danial, as
Danial wouldn’t be able to keep it from you. So it was better that
no one knew, that everyone thought Theo was dead.”
    I rubbed my eyes. “Maybe you’re right.”
    “Sar, Karl will not be bothering Theo again,”
Lash hissed. “Robert is also dead. Theo is as safe as he’s going to
be.”
    “What about the one that you made call
Karl?”
    “After he finished the call, I killed him,”
Lash hissed. “I wasn’t going to leave Satar alive. He would have
gotten some more weres and come back again, this time for me.”
    That was a relief. “Good,” I whispered.
    “Sar, I’ve kept my end of the bargain,” Lash
reiterated coldly. “Keep yours. I will be waiting for you at Hayden
after dusk. Be there tomorrow.”
    “I’ll be there,” I said softly. “Thank you,
for what you did.”
    Lash was quiet for a moment. “You’re
welcome.” Then there was only a dial tone.
    I hung up the phone, and got the towels
ready. By Lash’s description, Theo would be a mess.
    Theo showed up at three. He called from
outside the door and asked for the towels. When I let him in, he
dropped his bloody clothes, and headed for the shower. I put his
jeans, shirt, T-shirt, jacket, and underwear in a garbage bag with
his shoes, then took the bundle out to the garage to have him burn
it later with white fire.
    After his shower, I sewed him up like before.
The older wounds had mostly healed, but some of the stitches