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the undead didn't seem to touch her.
So her coming tonight, along with the pleasant (if somewhat dry) Liam, was
great by me.
But this European delegation was just what I didn't need: a bunch of ancient
vampires with stuffy accents dropping in to irritate me two weeks before my
birthday. As if turning thirty last year (and dying) hadn't been traumatic enough.
"I didn't forget," I said. Truth. I just had been trying hard to ignore it.
He smoothed his dark hair, which was already perfectly in place. Uh-oh.
Something was up. "Um, Jessica, I wonder if you could excuseтАФ"
"Don't even," she warned him. "You're not kicking me out of my own house to
have a dead-only meeting. Marc depends on me to pass on full reports of the
crazy shit you guys are up to."
Eric said something to Tina in a language I didn't know. Which meant, anything
but English. She replied in the same gibberish, and they talked for a minute.
"They are totally debating whether to kick you out or not," I said to Jess.
"Duh."
"Let's speak our own language: we'll call it English, which really fucking rude
vampires don't understand."
I glared at the two of them, but Tina and Eric kept babbling. I wasn't sure if they
were ignoring me or honestly hadn't heard, so I took the mature route and just


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spoke louder.
"IT'S PROBABLY A SAFETY ISSUE. YOU KNOW WHAT ASSHATS
THOSE OLD VAMPIRES CAN BE. THAT'S WHY THESE TWO GET OFF
ON INVITING THEM OVER. ANYWAY, ONE OF THEM WILL
PROBABLY TRY TO CHOMP YOU, AND WE'LL HAVE A BIG WICKED
FIGHT, ALL OF WHICH WE CAN AVOID IF YOU JUST HANG IN THE
BASEMENT WITH GARRETT."
"No, no, no. My house. No offense, Garrett."
Garrett shrugged in response. He hadn't offered much since his Shah sandal
observation, and stuck to his knitting. He had been spending more time than
usual in the kitchen: his girlfriend, a werewolf who never turned into a wolf, was
in Massachusetts. Apparently her pack leader's wife had had another baby. She
bitched, but she went. Garrett stayed, which was fine by meтАФit wasn't like we
didn't have the room. Antonia could come back with half the pack and we'd have
the room.
I had to admit, I had no idea what Antonia (the werewolf, not my stepmother)
saw in him.
Side note: how weird was it that I knew two women named Antonia? Jessica
claimed it all had Some Deeper Meaning, but I figured I was just lucky.
Back to my fretting about Garrett. Don't get me wrong. I mean, he was great-
looking (it was the rare vampire who wasn't), but I had the impression he wasn't
the sharpest knife in the drawer. Not to mention, a few weeks ago he'd been
running around on all fours and drinking blood by the bucket. Antonia was smart
and, even if she'd been a drooling idiot, she could see the future. Hello? See the