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He is not dead

He is not dead

He is not dead, because if he was? I&039;d kill hi For one thing, it wasn&039;t his style He liked to engage, not withdraw For another, as silly as he thought the wedding stuff was? He&039;d never stickday

Well, he ht stick me with it, but he wouldn&039;t out-and-out disappear on ht I hated hiet rid of Noe loved each other, he&039;d ht: someone had snatched hilanced over and saw Babyjon had tired of playing with his soft blocks and toppled over on his side, one thu his mouth shut He watched ht and chewed my nails and prowled back and forth

Finally I sat down at the kitchen table, folded ht: this is not a coincidence

I thought: Sinclair and Marc and Antonia and Garrett and Cathie and Tina and Jessica and Nick and a double funeral and Laura andor deliberately absenting themselves from my life? And now, of all times? The weekof the Va everyone would leave me alone for a few days, but this was ridiculous

I thought: Who killed my father and my stepmother? Because this was all just a little too neat, you know? Too neat by a da with the queen of the vampires? (Whoever "they" were?) Didn&039;t they knohat I-we-could do to them?

Sure they did They just didn&039;t care They didn&039;t think I was a threat; no vaht I was a threat They only believedthem And even then, the rumor spread that Sinclair had really done it Even the European faction had taken a da, calling myself a vampire queen? If I didn&039;t believe the Book of the Dead said Sinclair and I wereelse? Can&039;t have it both ways, Bets, as Jessica ht have said

So who had seento do about it?

This was, of course, assuhed Of course this was all about ood way

I picked up the phone, dialed my mom&039;s number, and waited for her to answer "Mo the fan over here, and I don&039;t think it&039;s safe for Babyjon Can you take him for a couple of days?

"Mom?

"Hello?"