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She huffed a breath "I’m on a case But thanks" Her eyes foundfriends with you is hard work"

"I know So Beignets and coffee? They’re still sorta hot"

Jodi pushed papers aside fro in the clear space "Gimme," Jodi said of the coffee I poured a cup froether and she took it, inhaling the aroma before she inhaled the coffee itself "God, this is so much better than the se scorch here I needed this" A h the powdered sugar and fried pastry she said, "So What do you want?"

I followed her lead, took a beignet, and bit in The taste was incredible Sweet, hot, and perfect Through the pastry I said, "I need info And I have soesture with her pastry and I said, "I need to know about any dark-haired male vamps or blood-servants who currently have short beards" I deer to show her the shape "And who s Hoops"

"Yeah?" Jodi watched me speculatively, and fro for ather"

"Old or recent?"

I popped the last of er Chewed Sed Grinned Letting her wait "Planned"

Jodi’s eyes widened and her jaw dropped "No shit? Uh, sorry No kidding?"

"None at all And if you help, I’ll ask Leo if you can attend He’ll probably say no, but it’s worth a shot"

"I’d give ather Actually, I’d give both Wrapped up in a box with a bow"

I chuckled I’d only recently discovered that Jodi had beenand it had ended badly when the ex had tried to sleep with Jodi’s cop partner Who wasBut I can tell you as ather, like date and tiht I do know that it’ll be soon Deal?"

"One of oes by the name Jack Shoffru, and we have records on him back to the mid seventeen hundreds Scuttlebutt froossip, says that he ran with Jean Lafitte"

"The pirate?" I asked, startled, talking around the pastry and thinking about the gold earring I had been thinking gay va could certainly have been piratical I kept net

"Yeah Hirounds, until he disappeared in 1823"

I stopped cold, another beignet halfway to my mouth Disappeared was a vaed and unaged in the human world It also was a term they used when they were first turned and went into forced containment in their master’s scion lair for the necessary ten years or so of curing, the time and the condition of insanity referred to as the devoveo "Sooo, are you saying that Shoffru actually is Lafitte?"

"No They hung together A lot Records suggest that he was a ship’s captain in Lafitte’s fleet and a partner in Lafitte’s warehouse in the city in 1805 Anyway, Shoffru has been gone for nearly two centuries, and is now a big-tiround for Lafitte Now he’s back I’ll e-mail you his file as soon as I nail down soreat," I said "A pirate on Leo’s territory Yeah I need to talk to the MOC" I stopped "When did he get here? To New Orleans? Anddo vaet here fro that down and trust , but I have a feeling that either he compelled humans to let him in without papers or he snuck in over the border"

I sat back on the tabletop, letting the formerly unmatched puzzle pieces find a fe empty slots "So, does Galveston have a port where he could have coely "Yeah Why? What do you know?"