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What sounded and smelled like a hundred black Lab puppies swar they could reach and suffocating an! My Etienne Aigners! If one of thosea cho itinsane

And Sinclair had made this happen The betrayal! He really screwed me after he didn&039;t screw me, the treacherous bastard

"Get the all overaddicts! Why are you just standing there, you rat bastard? Help!"

While I writhed in a sea of puppies, the king of the vampires fell to his knees His sinister plan had worked beautifully, and he was so delighted he gave in cos under control, he was letting loose an awful lot this week

"Stop it! You buet away"

He&039;d collapsed to his knees and was holding his stoet up and help ain This only increased my puppy-induced fury

A velvety black ear slipped intothreats atsuch a dreadful s or telemarketers in the vicinity I puffed it back out with a breath and struggled to sit up Did Iwas that? It was! My left shin arm and wet "Oh, Goddaonna pull a Cruella de Vil and skin each of you Starting with you!" I told Sinclair, and he finally stopped laughing

"Now, darling," he said reprovingly "There is no need-"

"Don&039;t &039;darling&039; ured out what this place was, and you deliberately-get away!" I yelled at the puppies, and several of thenoredup atout of their puppyhas for us, Sink Lair Dogs and zo if they bend to your will," he suggested

"Shut up"

"Now, Elizabeth You yourself said this sort of, uh, event" The corner of his rin off his face If he&039;d still been human, his eyes would have watered with the effort "This sort of thing did not happen to you in life Perhaps you can control them in death"

"I can&039;t even control my split ends, never mind the hounds of heck"

He blinked "I have no idea what that "

"Perhaps you could do"

"Oh, you&039;re here," the Antichrist said No doubt roused by my bitter screams of hatred, she&039;d co on the porch She was pretty focused, too: she was looking straight at me, like Sinclair wasn&039;t there and, weirder, like thirty-soot to talk"

"Boy, do we," I said "Also, do you know a good divorce attorney?"

Sinclair ignoredtwo of the black Lab puppies, which seeling and licking "They shall be hted, "and I shall name them Fur and Burr"

"And the horror continues Fur and Burr? Be serious UhLaurayou wanna help us wrangle so, but that didn&039;t et squashed

"Okay" Laura came down the steps, crossed the driveway, and absently scooped up two iven that the Antichrist loved puppies, shelters, orphans, lemonade, babies, marshoing deep into cuddle ot to talk"

"That&039;s not all we&039;ve gotta do," I ed, and walked toward the house talking in a low voice to Fur and Burr

SEVENTEEN

The Antichrist, in addition to her

Yeah Coeous My half sister (we had the same dad) looked better on her worst day in torn jeans and with dirty hair than I looked in own I was pretty sure she&039;d never had a pimple She had skin that would put an Irish y and statuesque (over six feet!), with long blond hair the color of corn silk and with nary a single split end Eyes the color of a cloudless spring skyexcept when she was having a bad day Then her eyes went poison green, and her hair deepened to red So, gorgeous while being evil, just a different kind of gorgeous And in hell, she had long gorgeous broings hich she could fly and in general just be theyou&039;ve ever seen, ever

But such are the challenges I, as vampire queen, must face So when my husband and I (and Burr and Fur) went into the little fars, a St Olaf sweatshirt (weird, since I was pretty sure she was a U of M student), muddy tennis shoes (ere on a puppy farm, so I let that pass), and one of her adopted dad&039;s old winter jackets Her hair was yanked back in a messy ponytail, and her face was pale Even for a blond Minnesotan And gorgeous, of course Proof! Proof she had sinister supernatural powers; no woeous with messy hair and a sweatshirt!

"Do you knoho lives here?"