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Chris glanced at her watch She had left Ja in the cabin, and the sun wouldn’t set for another three hours "So show irl went to a rack of holiday dresses and re black sheath that looked as if someone had slashed it with scissors

"I know it looks like crap on the hanger," the salesgirl said quickly, "but it’s totally different on It was ure"

Chris looked down at herself "I have no figure"

"Yeah, which is why I’irl admitted

Chris chuckled as she took the dress and headed into the dressing room A few th , slinky ribbons of black

"Holy cow" She had no reason to buy so this beautiful and useless, but she wasn’t sure she could irl appeared behind her holding a pair of , and a headband of black crystals "Could you? Just so my hatred is completely justified?"

Chris added on the accessories and then gazed along with the salesgirl at the results "Dairl absently dug one out of her pocket and passed it to her as she kept staring "Das into the trunk of the rental before she walked over to a sandwich shop to grab so to eat She discovered she didn’t have lass of orange juice anyway

Her next stop was a drugstore, where she bought a selection of first-aid supplies and took theh had already started scabbing over, and thanks to Ja she cleaned it and applied a new adhesive bandage

Chris had always i blood for a Kyn lord would be a little revolting It wasn’t that she was squeaht or smell of blood or the pain of the s used as someone’s food hat had troubled her; she was a person, not a Happy Meal

Helping Ja had dispelled all her worries When she’d realized hoeak he’d been, she hadn’t even hesitated Watching hih had ely protective, alent feelings as soon as his hands grasped her leg

She should have known Burke had warned her that so on a mortal, especially if there was any kind of physical contact He hadn’t h, andout

She didn’t regret being intiht up like Las Vegas, and after that horrible night trapped in that toret was that she hadn’t done much for him in return--but secretly she’d loved that, too How uy off with a single touch?

Chris parked outside her final stop, a community blood bank that was one of many owned by the tresoran council All she had to do was show her jardin identification at the desk and they’d bring her a large cooler stocked with fresh units Two coolers, if she wanted thatit

I can’t go on feeding hierous for him to hunt This is the only alternative

At the desk inside a sreeted her, and then inclined her head in the public shorthand for a bow as soon as Chris placed her ID on the counter "Will your lord be co?"

"No, this is for a visitor" She had decided against et back to Lucan "I’ll need a teek supply of stores Also, if you have one, a nine and a couple of clips"

The girl nodded "Right away"

As she waited by the counter, she looked over at the people waiting in the lobby All of them were mortal, and she was pretty sure two of the men in suits were tresori With their backs to the walls, the pricey but discreet style of their clothes, and the clean-cut hair, they gave off that sort of official vibe Both seeazines they were reading, which see around the instilled a kind of professional paranoia that became almost second nature That was exactly why she’d taken a hard look at the people in the lobby

One of the rossed in the latest issue of People, while the other was thuh a copy of Ti in his hands was upside-down