"I don't understand," Carey shook his head. He stared in disbelief at Amber's body. How could she be dead? He hadn't really felt anything for Amber - it had only been his job to train her to be a real vampire hunter. When he had slept with her it had been a spur of the moment thing. He'd told Amber she was just about ready to be a real hunter and he would take her with them the next time the group went on a hunt - had Amber got ahead of herself and gone on her own?
Sunday shrugged. "You haven't seen her since yesterday?"
"No," Carey answered.
Parker and Lucius were hovering in the doorway, both looking at the floor or at the wall rather than the body. Neither of them had liked Amber, neither thought she was good enough material to be a vampire hunter.
"So how many are we dealing with?" Parker asked, entering the room and breaking the uncomfortable silence. "Is it one or a group of new monsters in town?" Parker moved over to the bed and pushed back the covers examining the bite mark on Amber's neck. Her dark hair fell over her forehead as she bent closer to get a better look. Tossing back her dark hair she raised her head and shrugged. "Just because there is one bite doesn't mean there's one vampire responsible."
"There's no sign of forced entry - apart from the kicked in door," Lucius pointed out, eyes sliding a glance at Sunday.
Sunday shrugged. "The door was locked," she snapped indignantly.
"Could have been someone she knew," Parker said, kicking a pile of clothes by the bed, catching a pair of delicate black satin panties on the toe of her shoe. Her eyebrow rose. "At least she had taste in underwear if nothing else. Label says these are Gucci."
"Didn't Drayton Redfern make a very public display of dumping her a few weeks ago?" Lucius said.
Sunday nodded, walking around the bed and sitting down on it. "Yeah, call me crazy if you want but I don't think he did it."
"You're crazy," Parker said instantly, hands on her hips. "Who cares - it's obvious. We should have thought of that earlier."
"That's the thing," Sunday insisted. "It's too obvious."
"Did you forget the part were vampires are blood thirsty monsters who don't think about their actions?" Carey put in harshly. The lesson was something that had effected all of them, it was the reason they had been brought together in the first place. "Amber deserves to be avenged."
There was a silence and he felt everyone's eyes on him. He just looked evenly back at them, his gaze focusing on Sunday. She was supposed to be the group's leader after all.
"Pandora!" Lucius said suddenly, breaking the silence.
"Come again?" Parker asked.
"If she hadn't come, Amber would still be alive. She was the reason for the break up. She could have seen Amber as a threat, and that would be motive enough to get rid of her," Lucius explained. "It has to be her."
The group exchanged glances, smirking and nodding at each other. "So now what?" Parker asked.
"We do what vampire hunters do," Sunday answered with a vicious smile.