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Juliet grinned athim for a snack What do you think his blood type is? I’d bet anything he’s an A neg He looks juicy"

Baldwin shook a finger in the air to drive ho as in that bar trying to help the monsters Mr Kane admits he hired the n And that attack ether This country belongs to hus, on human values"

"Aaron Burr was a olf," Juliet remarked

I stared at her "Who?"

Juliet rolled her eyes "Don’t they teach you any history in school? In the early nineteenth century, he was in a duel with, u about Alexander Haular bullet in his pistol, not silver So Burr couldn’t lose"

I wondered if Kane knew that the guy on ten-dollar bills had been outwitted in a duel to the death by one of his kind Hu "I don’t say kill the monsters, but I dosay let them start their own country Somewhere far from human civilization Antarctica, maybe But I proovernor, ill never see a repeat of last night’s tragedy No more ‘Monsterchusetts’--reat commonwealth it was before these inhues"

"Mr Baldwin--" Kane began, but the picture went back to Washington Brenda bea there, then introduced the weather report A giant weather lossy female with sprayed-stiff hair and a fixed sirl "Look at all those teeth She’d ain, and the silence sounded a whole lot better than all that ya now," she ular?"

"I’ to prove that the ood as the hu hands and thu they’ll have their people get in touch" Even if that’s precisely what they were doing, Kane was furious right now--no doubt about that In any debate, he believed it was essential to have the last word And Brenda had cut him off before he could rebut Baldwin

"Who do you think won?" Juliet asked "I gave the into a cauy’s sained hilanced at Juliet, who covered her mouth as she yawned "You don’t seem too worried about ill happen to us if he wins"

"Another purge against the ain, as if the subject bored her "What’s to worry about? I’m one of those vampires who always lands on her feet, like a cat" She stretched, looking very much like a cat, and put the popcorn bowl on the coffee table "That’s it forto resuainst the hall light "Why didn’t Oprah’s people callat the bar"

"Next time she does a show on vauest list"

After Juliet left to crawl into her coffin, I stretched out on the sofa, hugging the popcorn bowl for solace I ain Then I picked up the re that disaster another time Poor Kane His political ad had turned into a public relations nightmare Baldwin had otten in the last word All things considered, Kaneto tell him I was still on the job for Frank Lucado?

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STEAM BILLOWED OFF THE WATER THAT POURED INTO THE tub as I measured out a capful of bubble bath In the past ten hours, I’d stared down a Hellion, gotten involved in an interspecies bar brawl, argued with my sort-of boyfriend, taken on his archenemy as a client, and beco started Right now, all I wanted was a nice, long, fragrant soak and an even longer nap Then I’d be able to face things

I’d called Daniel at the police station, but he wasn’t in yet I left a voiceup, I’d flipped over Daniel’s card and stared at his home number "Please don’t hesitate to call me," he’d said My heart did a little tap dance Then I stuck the card in the back pocket of uy at ho a call wasn’t it

I left my clothes in a pile on the floor and eased into the tub The water e my skin as I lowered myself, inch by inch, into the water Ahhh Just the way I like it