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"You didn’t feel that way, too?"

"Honestly, it was the equivalent of being insulted by a pork chop h to shut iven a lot to wipe that s distracted by her cell phone to sh His htened out Over his shoulder, I could see that Bill looked unmistakably pleased

"So, Ms Ravenscroft, you told Kyo, she left, and she died," A But she didn’t seem focused on Pa to ht," Pae the sahtfully

"Please stay where you are I have to return to Mr North out," A up her shoulder bag "Givens, o"

And just like that, she left

Givens, a man with a starved, concave face, looked very unhappy He called a few ned one to each batch of us "If they need to go to the restrooo alone," he instructed the heavy guy in charge of our little group "She’s the only one who should need to go," he added, pointing at me

Bored, I turned my chair around to watch the Nevada vaie seemed to have had a lot of experience with the police They sat together in silence, though a little downturn to one corner of Felipe’s lips told , he probably hadn’t been treated like an ordinary va time-not that humans kneho or what he was, but ordinarily Felipe would have several layers of insulation between hiular pitfalls of the va of Arkansas, Nevada, and Louisiana, that ould be "miffed"

He could hardly blaht, anyway

I switched lass-enclosed office T-Rex was signing autographs for so themselves, proud to be in such illustrious coood-ole-boy, T-Rex was bored He would have been glad to be somewhere else When the little cluster of cops dispersed, he pulled out his cell phone and called hisabout, but frohts I could read that T-Rex couldn’t think of anyone else to call in the ht He was tired of conversation with his female companions, especially Cherie, who could not keep herto and fro in the big roohlin!" I said, oddly happy to see so hi his belly as a fixed point His hair was shorter than ever, and a bit grayer

"Miss Stackhouse," he said, co over to us "You found any more bodies?"

"No, sir," I said "But a woman was found dead in the front yard of Eric’s place, and I was in the house" I jerked hlin didn’t knoho he was Pretty unlikely that a police officer in Shreveport wouldn’t know the city’s oing with now, young lady?" Coughlin didn’t approve of me, but he didn’t hate me, either

"Eric Northman," I said, and I realized I didn’t sound at all happy about that

"Out with the furries and in with the coldies, huh?"

Eric had been talking to Pam in a very low voice, but now he turned to stare at hlin, I’d been with Alcide Herveaux The second tier They had been in their human forms then, and he hadn’t known their second identity since the two-natured hadn’t revealed their existence By now he’d figured it out Mike Coughlin ht be slow and unimpressive, but he wasn’t stupid

"So you’re with the party that came in with T-Rex?" he asked

I wasn’t used to the hu than the vaht at Eric’s"

"You ever see hiuy, huh?"

"Yeah, and he does a lot for the community, too He takes toys to the kids in the hospital at Christh T-Rex was not a wereanimal, he o-faced One side of him did community service and helped area charities raise money The other side of him hit opponents upside the head with chairs androohlin said, "If they rope me in to help question, I’ll ask for you"

"Thanks," I said, wondering if that was really anything to sh with questions"

He went off to have a closer look at Thad Rexford Pa a word

Vao into motionless vaet so still I don’t knohat they think about when they do this; maybe they don’t think at all, but just switch themselves off It’s aluess deep meditation would be the closest state a breather could achieve, and I am no practitioner ofwhich nothing hlin caave no explanation Eric didn’t request one I had been on the point of asking if I could curl up under soy to be resentful at our treattasia so someone would pick us up Daasn’t far away; Felipe and his party wanted to go directly to their vampire-safe rooms at the Trifecta, and the Shreveport vamps didn’t want to wait on a hu on our ride, the three vampires turned toCara Ambroselli?" Palass vial, like florists stick individual flowers in?"

The vaers "Just big enough for one flower stem to soak in water," I said "The vial may have had a stopper on it, but they didn’t find that The vial was on the ground underneath her They think it had been tucked in her bra It had traces of blood"

They all considered that "I’ll bet you a demon’s dick that she had a bit of fairy blood in it," Paot close to Eric, she uncorked the little vial and made herself irresistible"

"Except he could have resisted," I nored me "And if that’s what happened, where is the stopper?"

We were all too tired to talk about this interesting development any further; at least, I was, and the other three didn’t