"Davidson,.MaryJanice.-.Betsy.2.-.Dead.Girls.Don't.Dance" - читать интересную книгу автора (Davidson Mary Janice)

"You'd never hurt your driver, sugar buns!"
She concealed a shudder. "Please don't ever call me that again."
"What were we fighting about again? Because we shouldn't go to bed angry at each
other."
"You're confusing us with newlyweds." The thought would have made her blush, if
she still could have. Sadly, Smelly's blood had been long metabolized and she
was back to being corpse white until she fed again. "Never mind. Chalk it up to
a long day."
He patted the bed. "Well, you can sleepЕ or whatever you doЕ right now." He
flopped onto the bed and groped for the remote. "The nice thing about having you
for a roommate, absolutely nothing wakes you up."
"I'm so happy for you." She gingerly climbed on the bed and stretched out beside
him. "Honestly? It doesn'tЕ creep you out or anything?"
"Heck no!" he said, a little too heartily. At her piercing stare, he added,
"WellЕ a little. I held my finger under your nose for, like, an hourЧnothing.
Not a single tickle of breath."
"I hope you washed it first."
"My finger?" he teased. "Or your nose?"
"Very funny."
"But anyway, once I got used to itЕ no biggie. I meanЧno offenseЧbut you were
always different."
"Yes," she said, staring at the ceiling. "I suppose I was."
"I should have gone out with you in college."
"It doesn't matter now."
"I was an idiot."
"Yes."
"But sometimes," he said, reaching for her hand, "things can be fixed."
"And sometimes," she said, gently extricating her fingers from his, "they can't.
It's too late now, Daniel. Years too late. We were just different people then.
Now we're different creatures entirely."
"That doesn't mean you can't have a fresh start."
She sighed and put a hand over her eyes. "Daniel, dear, you're so dumb you make
me tired. Because that's exactly what it means. I'm sorry to be blunt."
"I'm not as dumb as you think, you know," he said with mild heat, but half his
attention was already captured by ESPN.
"Of course not," she agreed. "You're just dumb compared to me."
"Go to sleep," he said sourly.
"I can't. The sun isn't up yЧ"



Chapter 9

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THE first thing she heard, hours later, was Daniel yawning like a bear at the
end of winter. "Finally," he said by way of greeting. "I didn't think you were
ever gonna wake up. And did you know it's one, two, three, you're zonked? I
thought you'd had a stroke or something."
"Fine, thanks, how are you?"
"Very funny." He yawned again. "Would you check in that bedside drawer for the