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"Music Appreciation and Ornalared at hies to the grounds and Vicki thought that at least one of us should knohat he was talking about" David and Inez lived at the estate and ran the place for Vicki I rented the guesthouse It was an arrangeraduation and one that had worked well for us for several years

"The ghoul-proof table er the ca ruave Rocky a curt nod It was obvious Lackley was very unhappy about the situation, but even he would hesitate to go up against El Jefe The nicknaht have started out as a joke, but it stuck because Warren is "the Chief" when it cos a lot of prestige and ht win this particular battle, but pissing off Warren would cost hi term, and he was too astute a politician not to know it

"Dr Reynolds--since Ms Graves appears to be alive and in full possession of her faculties and memory, is there any reason why she should re in the comfort of her own residence?"

"Well, sir …," Reynolds staue As a doctor, he’d feel coard to little things like, oh, sunlight, holy water…But I kneould go badly for him if he did He didn’t have the clout Warren did, so he’d be practically defenseless, and Lackley was in the mood to rip someone a new orifice

I didn’t want Dr Reynolds to be punished for saving ht, Doc I was planning on leaving anyway"

"I hate this" Kevin glared at er "You shouldn’t risk going out into the sunlight" I knew his beast was close I could feel it He usually has better control than that, and it made me nervous I wasn’t afraid of him I was afraid for him Because most people see olves as monsters and think they all should be either killed or locked up, which hy nobody at the university knew about his condition If Kevin gave them an excuse, we’d have more and worse problems than we already did

I tried to show him all that in a look, and he subsided a little

"I need to kno bad this is going to be, Kev If I have to stay in, I will But if I can handle the sunlight, I’oing to do this, I needed to get it over with

President Lackley and the others stepped out of the way, Rocky even went so far as to open the door for me

The hallway had an entire wall ht sunlight was strealass

Everyone stared in hushed silence as I paused at the very last edge of shadows

Taking a deep breath, I stepped into the light

I didn’t incinerate Yay!

"I’eration I could actually feel : like a sunburn on fast forward

I stepped back into the shadoondering ifI’ve always had naturally pale skin, so I kept bottles of it pretty o up to SPF 45, or even (ugh) sunblock But if that didn’t work, life was going to be da in sunny Southern California, next to the Pacific It’s my home and damn it, I like it here

Kevin was at my elbow His words were a bare breath of air , Celia"

He took a step back, but his eyes were glowing I felt his power roll acrossthe hairs on… was that h to banish the shadows fro into a kind of hyperfocus that showed lass I could see the pulse beating in the throat of a student hurrying down the sidewalk outside a hundred yards away, and it rowl