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Chapter Seven

The blood house didn’t exactly look like a hot bed of va tract in an upscale suburb of Leesburg, it was aprofile and pristine landscaping The houses in this area were spaced far apart and surrounded by a broad swath of green forest, which gave the illusion of living ast nature The effect was lovely, and very private

It o ah noon, but there were no cars in the driveway or in front of the house Duncan could detect two vampires inside, however, both wide awake

"Kind of quiet for a blood house, isn’t it?" Louis asked, eyeing the house doubtfully

Duncan nodded, agreeing with Louis Soht here "Well, so the doorbell"

The door opened while they were stilltheir way down the paved walk to the flat front porch Miguel and Louis both tensed and immediately formed a wall in front of Duncan

By contrast, the slender, dark-haired va s discreetly to catch a glimpse of Duncan behind the wall of vaesture, "coet war around his two bodyguards

Since they’d never met, Brendan twitched at the sound of his name, but Duncan kneas Brendan Fole from the vampire’s brain before he’d ever opened the door

"I a the house He indicated the others "My lieutenant, Miguel, and security chief, Louis"

Brendan closed the door behind them "Erik will be down in ato the second vampire in the house, the one Duncan could sense upstairs "We didn’t expect you and--"

Brendan’s worried explanation was cut off as the second va He raced downstairs and immediately knelt in front of Duncan "My lord Duncan," he said reverently "Thank you for coracefully to his knees next to his partner and lowered his gaze

Duncan brushed a hand over their bowed heads, acknowledging their subratified by your welcome," he said

Erik jumped to his feet as soon as Duncan’s hand lifted "You’ll find no sorrow for Victor’s passing here, estured at apair of pale leather couches in front of the fireplace "Would you like to sit? The fire is nice, especially on these cold nights"

Brendan laughed "Erik thinks anything below seventy degrees Fahrenheit is freezing"

Duncan privately agreed with that assess used to after so many years in L A’s bal onto the couch and stifling a sigh of pleasure at the fire’s heat<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>