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Blade walked in and looked around
" Your hot guy?"
"Nope We’re both free agents" Blade smiled at me but didn’t stop to speak to me Well, hell, eren’t so free that he could practically ignorebut push Blade away So when he stays away? I resisted the urge to send hi to each va as a leader A role he was born for
A waiter in a tux circulated around the roo piss, I mean Bloody Merry, on a silver tray I’d passed the first go round This ti to think about the last night Blade and I had ht Damian and I had checked out his coffin and each other Here Right upstairs I drained rabbed a second At least the waiter was a distraction How long had it taken Damian to find a Lurch look-alike na?" Blade I him in, Luther"
Luther opened a door and Tony Crapetta strutted into the roo in his knees And then there were the crosses… He had at least six of theious medals too He clutched a rosary in his hand and looked nervously around the room
Diana rushed forward "Darlin’, relax We’re all friends here" She looked around and grinned "Who wants the first bite?"
Chapter Eleven
"Oh, Jesus, Mary and Joseph" Tony crossed hiave her a stern look and pulled Tony up to shove hi to bite you, Tony"
"I ht" Another woman walked in from the entry Her red hair pulled back to show killer cheekbones, Mara MacTavish was dressed in expensive black, cut down to there She was tall, model thin and a reminder that life is not fair She strolled over to Tony and ran her fingers through his thin brown hair She stared into his eyes and licked her lips
"Masped and closed his eyes
"Wimp" Mara looked at Blade "Are we so desperate for help that this is e use?"
"Yes" Blade gestured for Mara to sit, but she just shrugged
"I don’t believe it" She looked around the room "Gloriana Frederick Countess I don’t know the rest of you Well, Florence of course Everyone knows Florence I’m Mara MacTavish"
"I don’t like the way she said that, Glory Is she calling oblet "Hoould she like to wear a little Bloody Merry?"
Blade looked over at us Of course he’d heard Flo, every va Mara That lady just smiled and walked to Blade’s side
"Florence, Mara, can we get on with this?" Blade pulled out a chair which Mara ignored She frowned at Tony as busily saying a rosary "I think you’re wasting our ti mortal"
"He’s not as useless as he looks" Daive her a fang job Never let it be said that he wasn’t an equal opportunity letch "Daain, demon, and I’ll knock your choppers down your throat" She jerked her hand back to her side
"Whoa I like this woman," Diana whispered
I had to ad ainst Flo Mara was taking control of theher nored hi rejection well He turned his back on Mara and focused on Tony, jerking him to his feet in mid-Hail Mary
"Get up Be a man Tell us what you found out today"
"Yes, sir, Mr Sabatini" Tony wiped his forehead on his sleeve He eating as if it was a hundred degrees in here instead of a cool seventy
Blade stepped forward "Report"
"Yes, well, Brent Westwood’s got a ranch just north of town He’s made that his headquarters Surrounded hih tech security"
"Why Austin?" A dapper oatee, stepped forward "There are a lot more vampires in New York City or even San Francisco"
There were reement around the room
"Westwood started his fortune with a computer coot a contact on the inside" Tony let go of his rosary long enough to pull a paper out of his pocket "The guy says Westwood got a call a while back that there was, uh, a coven of you people here, two dozen or more"
Flo marched up to him "We’re not witches, you oaf We don’t do covens or clubs or even gangs" She threw up her hands and snatched the paper "What’s this? Your grocery list?" She handed it to Blade then turned to exah heel "I can smell your fear Is it because you plan to betray us?"