Chapter 115

Darius

As expected Mendoza had beefed up his security considerably although whatever he did wouldn't be enough to keep him safe from us but it showed he was still nervous. His house in its grounds now sported even more guards all wearing the ubiquitous earpiece for communication, well that would certainly make things easier for us. There were also a pack of dogs that roamed from dusk to dawn, again not a problem although killing any innocent animal grieved me but these were trained killers and although they wouldn't hurt us they would give us away but I had a solution to that problem too. We decided to give Charlie the opportunity to finish off Mendoza himself, after all it had been some of his men who had been responsible for Charlie becoming a vampire.

We arranged to arrive at our destination at dusk just as the dogs were loosed. Garrett and Charlie were equipped with darts containing phenobarbital which would work quickly and kill them humanely. While they positioned themselves ready to throw stones over the wall to attract the dogs attention I brought out my own little invention.

Basically it was an amplifier and once I found the frequency the guards were using and was ready I gave Garrett the signal and they began. The pack of dogs soon came tearing over barking loudly and snarling, looking round for their prey. Garrett and Charlie let loose with their darts throwing them by hand as the most efficient and dog after dog went down as the guards well armed and alert followed. I pressed a button and every guard stopped simultaneously grasping at the ear pieces and screaming themselves, their eardrums burst with the frequencies I used.

The dogs, or those still alive, smelled blood, something I hadn't taken into consideration and fell on the men making themselves easier target and soon all the dogs were dead and most of the six guards ripped to pieces by the frenzied dogs who had heard the high pitched noise too and been sent crazy by it. One guard had managed to climb a tree just out of reach of the dogs ,long enough for us to kill them although he too was bleeding from the ear and the earpiece dangled from his collar. Vaulting over the wall we collected up the dogs bodies and those of the guards and dragged them into a pile while Garrett finished off the survivor, I wanted no one in our way when we left, no loose ends.

The infrared didn't work on vampires, we were too cold to register as human beings and we avoided the pressure plates that I had mapped out by jumping over them and the beams that waited to signal attack if they were disturbed in any way. Once at the house Charlie and Garrett took out the guards on the ground floor while I disabled the surveillance system inside the house, instead running a recording of The Addams Family, that should confuse any guards on the first floor! We knew the family were at home but it seemed they weren't together. Mendoza was in the indoor swimming pool with another body guard while his daughter and wife were upstairs guarded by three more security personnel.

"Charlie, Mendoza is yours, give us two minutes to get in position upstairs so you aren't disturbed then he's all yours."

Charlie nodded to show he had understood me and got into position close enough to the pool door to check on what was happening but far enough away he wouldn't be noticed if the guard lifted his head from the newspaper he was so engrossed in. Upstairs the woman and her daughter were watching a film in a home cinema. I slid a metal bar through the handles so they couldn't get out and Garrett stayed to clear the floor the guard assigned to watch over them being asleep while I returned downstairs to make sure Charlie was OK.

Looking in the pool room things seemed under control to me, the water had changed from clear to a pink and I could see Mendoza in Charlie's hands. He appeared to have been pretty well beaten, blood dripped from his face to the water below as Charlie held him over the pool head down then slowly lowered him into the water bringing him out just before he drowned. Having vampire hearing meant it was easy to gauge how far gone a human was under water.

As Charlie was enjoying himself so much I left him to it and went exploring. There was a locked gun cabinet with a pair of John Manton Percussion Dueling Pistols worth a fair few bucks inside which I took out and lay on the hall table then went back into Mendoza's study forcing any locks to check the contents. A large black ledger contained information on his contacts and deals he had been involved in and I left that prominently displayed on his huge highly polished mahogany desk.

In the safe were wads of cash, at least fifty thousand dollars that went with the pistols along with a jewel box containing a gold and diamond bracelet and necklace matching of course, a his and hers gold Rolex, four rings set with precious stones. the largest I'd ever seen and a selection of passports in various names but all bearing the photographs of Mendoza and his family. I took the men's and left the others for the police to find.

There was also another ledger containing the details of several off shore accounts so logging on to his computer, using the wife's date of birth and maiden name as security really wasn't that smart and cleaned them out, diverting the money into various charities through dummy corporations until Mendoza was as poor as the proverbial church mouse.

By the time I went back through into the pool room it was all over. Charlie had left Mendoza floating in the pool face down and he, looked a lot happier, he felt he'd had an opportunity to avenge someone, maybe the girls I had found in that warehouse. Well, the organization he worked for would be needing to find a new employee to do their dirty work from now on.

"You ready Charlie?"

He nodded wiping blood off his hands with Mendoza's beach towel,

"Sure am, He had that coming to him."

I wasn't going to argue and just then Garrett joined us smiling innocently,

"They dead?"

He nodded in answer to my question, that was all the guards in the place neutralized, permanently.

"I just need a couple more minutes. Wait here."

I left the other two and found the security room right below the pool. Inside were surveillance camera operations usually manned by some of the dead guard so I took out all the film and wiped the hard drives before putting a boot through the monitors and removing the hard drives from every machine in the room.

I rejoined the others and collected up my booty and we made our way back to the car leaping the fence as easily as we had on our arrival. Once a couple of miles away from his house I rang the police and reported a break in giving the code for the front gates before ringing off and as we drove further away we could see blue lights flashing as the police responded to the call.

They were going to think Christmas had come early for them with all the information on organized crime that awaited them. The only witnesses were the wife and daughter and neither had seen anything, it would be a dead end for them to follow, I knew exactly how to hide my tracks. I shared out the money when we stopped for a few hours and told the others what I had done.

Charlie

I hadn't felt this good in weeks, I'd finally got some revenge even if not directly for Renee or Bella. I knew this guy was a people trafficker and a drug dealer so I had no qualms about torturing and killing him. I would have bitten him if I could have born the thought of having his blood in my mouth, besides which the transformation was no punishment in the long run, he would always be looking for a way to destroy more lives. As it was he was dead and could hurt no one ever again. Now all I wanted was to be back home with Jenna talking about our wedding.