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"No need for that," Eric Sinclair said, ignoring my yelp and Jessica's flinch. He
was worse than Tina. Where she slithered silently, he teleported like an alien. A
tall, broad-shouldered, dark-haired, dark-eyed, yummilicious alien. "You have a
thousand pairs of sandals."
"Do not. Leave me alone and read your papers."
"Guest list?" he asked, leaning over my shoulder and peering at my pad. "But
you don't want a party."
"You're damned right I don't!" I slapped my notebook shut. In fact, I didn't. I was


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pretty sure. "How many times do I have to say it?"
Don't get me wrong: I can hear myself. And I'm very self-aware, regarding all
my little tics and annoying quirks. Nothing triggers Maslowian self-actualization
like getting body-slammed by a Pontiac Aztek.
But no matter how bad I sound to myself, I can't help it. My situation is
impossible. You'd be amazed how often I'm ignored, even though I am the so-
called Queen of Vampires. Repeating myself ad nauseum is one of the many
ways I try to make myself heard. I am too new to the game to be quietly tough,
like Sinclair. Not smart, like Tina. Not wealthy, like Jess. Not an all-seeing
ghost, like Cathie. Not a clever doc, like Marc; or an indifferent psychic
werewolf, like Antonia. You know what it's like to be called a queen and have
the least to offer among all the people you know? It's a huge ego hit.
"We got it, Betsy," Jessica was saying. "No party. Fine."
"Fine."
"Why are youтАФ" Sinclair caught Jessica's frantic arm waving. "Never mind. Are
you ready for our guests?"
"Guests?" I tried not to freak out. They were throwing me a party! Bums! And
throwing me off by having it two weeks before my actual birthday.
He sighed, which was about as close as he got to a blitzing tantrum. "Please don't
say 'guests?' like you don't remember the European delegation coming at
midnight."
"And Sophie and Liam," Tina added, looking over her own memos.
"I know. I know." I did know. Sophie and Liam I didn't mindтАФSophie was a
charming vampire who lived in a tiny town up north with her very alive,
thirtysomething boyfriend, Liam. They'd been a couple for a few months, and a
while back they'd helped us catch a real creep, a vampire who got his rocks off

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dating college girls, charming them into deep love, then talking them into killing
themselves.
Sophie, in fact, had kind of renewed my faith in vampiredom. It seemed to me
that most of us were jerks, men and women who found sexual pleasure in felony
assault. But Sophie was made of purer stuffтАФthe evil that supposedly consumed