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His gaze slid to the carpet of needles "Shit," he ht now," Fiona said "With your perave a small shake of his head then stopped hi her, she closed her eyes and focused on the Convent once more She lowered her telepathic shields and at first was bo One by one, she shut theuerite, until the last

She shook her head "I can’t find her I don’t hear her"

"But you communicated with her mind-to-mind before?" Thorne asked

"Yes"

He whistled "That’s a helluva lot of power, Fiona But as you know, my sister, Grace, lives here in this Convent She’s said that not only is telepathic communication forbidden, but if it’s discovered by one of the administrators, punishment can follow"

"You think that’s what happened to … this wouerite?" She’d spoken her name before and felt compelled to say it now

"Given all that Grace has told me over the years, yes, I believe that’s what happened The Convent has numerous barbaric policies, and a band of enforceulators administer justice for every infraction"

Fiona felt ill, her stoaze "Is it possible this woman is kept imprisoned here?"

He shook his head "It’s not as simple as that So relatives This ht have been the case with the woain her stoh she detected a certain wildness of spirit, there was nothing cruel about her The fact that she had gone so far as to deliver the warning spoke of her characterelse could have "Whatever the case," Fiona said, "this wo"

"Hear, hear," Zach said Each of the aze and offered a half sht now is a drink" She shifted her gaze to encoet one?"

"Hell, yeah," Luken said

"To the Cave" This tio lifted his fist in the air

The warriors all shifted to look at Thorne, since he always had the last word Fiona knew that generally women weren’t invited to share a drink at as essentially the private, verytense moment, then nodded "To the Cave"

After the warriors folded their swords back to protected lockers, the men one by one lifted arms and vanished

Jean-Pierre took Fiona’s hand She aze and nodded to him His ocean-blue eyes were lit with fire "Shall I do the honors?" he asked

He was polite, and she valued that "Yes, please"

He returned her half se building in don Metro Phoenix Two, Fiona accepted a vodka and tonic froo

She took a deep breath and let the tension of the recent battle go

Casilass by the steled to understand exactly what he was feeling

He held the mass of his hair back and sipped He stood on the balcony of his room at the Plaza Athénée and since it was already night in Paris he had a view of the Eiffel Tower, glittering like a diamond He loved the noise of the Mortal Earth city below Nothing like this existed on Fourth Earth Paris The population of the fourth diin to approach Mortal Earth so there was no need for Paris Four to have this delicious craether sensibility

He was a vampire of simple ereed to assist Commander Greaves in his efforts to take over Second Earth, so within his soul had shifted In the five thousand years of his absurd life, he’d never been quite this driven to see a task accomplished

He had to ado, in real-tihty death vampires and not one Warrior of the Blood so much as scratched

He’d been convinced there would be at least one kill, but apparently he was shit out of luck

Fuck

Julianna slid her arms around him from behind "You are very tense Let ht?" Hunting would be a good thing to do given his current state

"Yes," she whispered against his shoulder "I’ we’ll do together You have seduced ht"

"Maybe"