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Jessica had nearly choked on her drink, Tina had so startled her. She took a
breath and said, "She tells us our lives won't be worth living if we throw her a
party, then she makes a guest list."
"Constancy, thy name is Queen Elizabeth," Tina murmured as she slid her tiny
butt onto the breakfast nook bar stool next to GeorgeтАФdammit, I mean Garrett.
She was dressed like the most tempting college student in creation, as usualтАФ
long blond curls, big pansy eyes, knee-length black skirt, white designer T-shirt,
bare legs, black pumps. Most college students nowadays hadn't witnessed the
Civil War, but undead bombshells like Tina just didn't let go of their perky tits.
"What do you want for your birthday, Majesty?" she was asking me as I stared
jealously at those ageless melons. Her duties nowadays were the equivalent to
serving as "best man" to Eric, whom she had turned into a vampire decades ago.
Nowadays, instead of sucking his blood, she limited herself to smoothing out the
morning edition of the Wall Street Journal, fixing his tea the way he liked it, and
setting out gobs of paperwork for him to look through. "Some nice shoes, I
suppose."
"You suppose wrong," I replied. "I want peace on earth, goodwill toward men."
"Do they have a store for that at the mall?" Jessica asked innocently. "Or maybe
one of those sales carts in the walkways, right next to the portrait artist and the
guy selling T-shirts with pithy sex jokes?" She was shamelessly stealing peeks at
the memos Tina laid out neatly on the marble countertop.
"It'd be the only thing they don't have," I said. "Tina, Jessica, I know you. I know
I told you not to throw a party, and that therefore you will throw one. But if you
want to keep up the deceitтАФfine. No party. Instead, find a quiet moment to pray
for the aforementioned world peace and global harmony, or failing that, snag me
a fat gift card from Bloomingdale's."


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"Or perhaps a pair of the new Prada loafers," Jessica added.
"No, I'm sick of loafers. Spring is hereтАФI want some strappy sandals." Which
was kind of sillyтАФI couldn't wear them with socks, and these days my
extremities were pretty icy. But still. I was sick of winter, and this was Minnesota
тАФwe had at least two more months of snow.
"Right," Jess said. "Because you don't have enough of those."
"Why don't you take one of my existing pairs and shove them up your cute black
butt?" I suggested sweetly.
"Well, Ms. Taylor, why don't you take your delicate ivory nose andтАФ"
Tina interrupted the argument du jour. "Majesty, are there any designer shoes
you don't like?"
Garrett cleared his throat as he started a different stitchтАФknit, garter, crochetтАФit
was all the same to me. "She doesn't care for Packard Shah sandals. Especially
the gold ones."
"This is true," I confirmed. "They're all like something out of the Boogie Nights
prop drawer. I mean, what year is this? I'd pay two hundred bucks not to wear
them."