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"It’s those dah heels" He switched feet

"Yes, but they’re sexy, aren’t they?" I wiggled my toes

"Yes, but so are your bare feet" He dropped ht?"

So much for the niceties "No, just his lanced atMacDonald’s swill?" Jerry paced around the piano, then walked over to pull open the drapes

"I drank the bedtiaveit now"

He turned around and looked at e that Ian tried to use on you last night Richard’s having it analyzed"

"I’m sure it’s fine, Jerry" I slipped on iven you has made you feel so fine?" Jerry frowned at me "Richard took it to the Council here They have excellent facilities on call and they’re very interested now in MacDonald’s operation"

"Just because he’s a MacDonald "

"He eto yourself, Jerry? If Ian wanted me dead, I’d be dead Valdez knocked it out of his hand but, FYI, I wasn’t going to let hiuard "Appreciated the gesture, though"

"I should have killed him when I had the chance All these reactions you’ve been having to his shit, it’s only going one way, Glory Maybe MacDonald wants your death to look like an accident You’re heading for suicide by sunlight, lady You know it and I know it" Valdez looked up at me

"What the hell do you mean?" Jerry sat beside me

"Yes, I’d like to know the answer to that" Ray stood inside the hall door "Brittany told , Glory?"

I looked fro to have to tell the or whatever you wanted to call it One of then and the other would rush out there and pay Ian a fortune for a chance at his own suicide by sunlight

Oh, God, if ever there was a lose-lose situation, this was it

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"It has to do with the bedtiuess" I looked everywhere but at the men in my life I was tired and my feet still ached Jerry and Ray had opened bottles of synthetic blood I’d turned it down Trina was co The fact that she’d been my only source for the last few days made me feel rotten I nor ones And I still had the proble mortals as disposable commodities didn’t necessarily h Unfortunately

"Glory, are you going to talk or do you want ?" Ray was practically ju out of his skin Of course he was desperate to see the sun again He’d only been a vaet used to life after dark

"I wouldn’t do that if I were you, Caine" Jerry sounded like he was talking to an unruly schoolboy

"I don’t follow your orders, Blade" Ray pulled me up to stand beside him "And neither does Glory" He squeezed my hand "Look at her Ian’s forht she wanted in record tiave Ray a condescending look "There’s a hell of a lot of difference between losing weight and walking into daylight Valdez, tell us what Glory did yesterday afternoon"

Valdez risked his job by looking at me before he answered

"Go ahead, V, tell him Tell him all the stuff I did when I was supposed to be dead to the world" I held Ray’s hand because Jerry looked as approachable as a thorny hedge

"You know she was having those nightht her as she was heading into the living room, eyes closed, obviously out of it I shifted and carried her back to bed She didn’t wake up until her head hit the pillow"