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"Yes, of course, but after causing you so much pain, I feel I must warn you it may hurt a bit-"

"Elizabeth!" Sinclair said sharply froape at hi when he raised his voice "I asped with fresh outrage "And the hits just keep on col" I clutched oodness "That did hurt, you cow!"

"Perhaps less," he said, looking vastly relieved, "as you were distracted"

"Yeah, thanks for &039;helping&039; rumped as Tina and Marc helped me to my feet Marc felt between my boobs, which I didn&039;t take personally, and then circled around to feel my back

"How do you feel?" Tina asked anxiously

"Pissed off! I&039;ve been up for, what, ten minutes? Cripes This is worse than pro to do"

"Close your eyes," Marc told land" Then he pushed my pajama top up

"Ack! It&039;s chilly in here, stop that" I jerked away fro old stab wound in my chest, we&039;d all know it"

"I can&039;t believe you aren&039;t dead!" Laura exclai, but I&039;ve never seen that happen before" Sinclair caroup, and she sort of shrank away from him "I tried to tell you before I didn&039;t ot between us"

"Yesssssssssss," Sinclair purred "And ere you trying to stab when she, ah, got between you?"

"It wasn&039;t it wasn&039;t for real" Laura suddenly looked about twelve years old The braids helped So did the fact that she&039;d put her sword away to wherever it hen she wasn&039;t killing vauess what happened at the Ant&039;s bugged you ed She wouldn&039;t look at any of us Her hair was blond again, and her eyes were blue The blue of the Ant&039;s mother, apparently, or the devil

"He&039;s a feral vampire," she pointed out defensively "It&039;s not like I could have really hurt hie"

Lie

"It was just a training exercise"

Lie

"It has nothing to do with my family life," she insisted, the third and (hopefully) final lie

"It-"

You fight so I can send you to ht so you can tell her I&039;"

"Oh, boy," Cathie said Tina glanced over at her, but nobody else had a clue "Did you say she had so issue right there I mean, come on, Liz You don&039;t believe this happy crappy, do you?"

"Don&039;t call ht, Laura," I said after an aard moment My life: a series of aard moments "It was an accident I know you&039;d never want to hurt uileless blue eyes swi with tears "I&039;d never ever want to hurt you I&039;d die before hurting you"

"Really?" Sinclair asked, head cocked to one side

"Let o finish our shopping"

Her face lit up "You-you still want to?"

"Are you kidding? What part of &039;thirty percent off everything in the store&039; do you not get? It would take a lot more than this to keep me away I&039;ll uess this is the part where you all talk about what to do about ," I said, pushing her toward the stairs