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"Just what do you think you&039;re doing, young lady?"
I stared at ly in her wrath She&039;d roared right over to thetrouble figuring out
"You want to knohy I&039;ry?"
"Not really"
"I&039;ll tell you why You are responsible for this infant" She pointed a noner at Babyjon, who yawned "You Not me Not your sister"
"Did Laura talk to-"
"You And at the first sign of trouble-"
"The first?" I yelped
"-you co all better Well, I can&039;t, Betsy You&039;re a groo like one"
I looked at my mother, Dr "Suburbs" Taylor, with real irritation I hadn&039;t felt this close to sht me with her credit cards at the Burnsville Mall (she knehat that shoe sale roo like one, eh? Well, let&039;s see Let&039;s think about all the things this grooman did that Dr Taylor, safe in her book stacks, had no clue ever happened
There was the overthrowing of not one, but two va of the serial killer (though technically Laura got the kill claioverning the vampire nation, whatever the hell that was The tension of the European faction finally visiting, and solving that subsequent murder And the zombie in my attic that showed up from God knohere, God knohich I had to kill By et about the pack of olves who showed up trying to tear ht, to be fair, it wasn&039;t her fault she didn&039;t know about any of the above I had made a conscious choice to leave her out of the vas, a choice wholeheartedly endorsed by Sinclair and Tina
But the stuff she knew about was bad enough: the tension of the wedding, not to uardian of a baby Alue on the details of my vampiric lifestyle, she at least knew the basics: I had died, I had come back, and my life was infinitely more complicated as a result Oh, and my father had just died
Ah, but the broad had a few n of trouble, your iot to grow up"
"Are you taking him for the next two days, or aren&039;t you?"
My chilly tone must have startled her, because she finally paused for a few seconds, then said, a tad on me ive me a hand I just wanted you to know- to realize what you-I just don&039;t want you to get in the habit of-"
Yawn I had no ti in his carrier (the base was on the front porch, where Mom would pluck it and then strap it unto her backseat), and the diaper bag with the Babycrap&8482; "Thank you Good-bye"