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If you’re thinking it would be one of the hts ever, you’d pretty ht

Lurine surfaced at the far end of the pool, water strea over her bare shoulders Her tail snaked out with nonchalant grace to snag an inflatable lounge chair and drag it into the pool Nico the satyr watched with obvious approval, the front of his board shorts stirring visibly "Het us fresh Bellinis and go prune some trees"

"Yes, kyria" He sounded downcast, but he went

"Now--" Slinging her are of the pool, Lurine flicked her tail toward -quick I barely had time to yelp in surprise before her slick,equivalent, where I floundered in an effort to get aveeffect Lurine’s stunt had on me--not that she didn’t knoay "What’s on your o, I’d poured out a tale of woe regarding my crush on Cody and his possible interest inarding Sinclair

"A secret twin sister!" she said with relish when I finished "That’s straight out of a soap opera"

I smiled reluctantly "I know So what do you think?"

Lurine reclined against the wall of the pool, her coils stirring absently, creating eddies My floating chaise rocked atop thewai likes him"

"You could pick a worse judge of character than your cat," she said in a pragto know each other People are allowed to have secrets"

"Secret twins?"

"Well, it does happen all the time in soap operas" Lurine pokeda bit "The thing is, cupcake, Sinclair ht have told you all about his sister toot the chance, which is why I think you should cut hi?" I asked

She shook her head "Not my area of expertise"

"Does it even work? I ain "There’s no underworld in Jamaica, is there?"

"Oh, that" A loop of iridescent coil rose to halt my drift "Islands have their own rules, especially if they’re blood-soaked"

"Ew"

Lurine shrugged "Where there’s blood and death in abundance, there’s necromancy And islands are circumscribed by salt water It concentrates the effect"

"Well, technically all land is circumscribed by salt water, isn’t it?" I said "Ilike seventy percent of the earth’s surface, right?"

"Aren’t you the save the underside of my floatie an affectionate bump "It has to do with scale, Daisy I’m sure there’s some sort of formula," she added idly "Gallons of blood spilled per acre The gods only know, there was blood and death aplenty throughout the entire West Indies during the centuries when the slave trade was flourishing"

I shivered in the bright sunlight "Okay Enough said"

"You asked," Lurine re away froth of the pool and back again Ensconced in enerated by Lurine’s passage, gazing at the green treetops silhouetted against the bright blue sky and thinking about the terrible fragility of life

Thirteen

Soo to the Bide-a-Wee Tavern that night The only difference was that his sister would be joining us

"You’re sure?" I asked hi forward to it It will give you the chance to get to know each other"

"Does sheknow about me?" There’s really no delicate way to ask, oh, by the way, does your until-recently-secret twin sister know you’re dating a hell-spawn?

There was a pause "Emmy’s like me," he said "She sees auras I didn’t want to lie to her We actually had a good talk today"

According to Sinclair,around the edges of their bodies, while old If n of surprise at it