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"Could you do me a favor first?" I asked

"Sure What’s up?"

I gestured toward the kitchen "Could you go check with Margot--the House chef? See if she needs a hand with anything? She’s catering the wedding"

Jonah looked a little suspicious at the request, but see day Which was fine by me Whatever worked

"Okay, sure"

I gestured to the hallalked him as far as Ethan’s office, then made sure he walked into the kitchen

Fate, I hoped, would do the rest

• • •

The riht, but business was business, and vampires were vampires Drama was inevitable

Ethan sat behind his desk, Luc and Malik on the other side of the roo with the electronics

"Good evening," I said, when Ethan glanced up at ht"

"And to you How are you feeling?"

Ethan sat back in his chair, ar with power and confidence And he didn’t seeht, when he’s set to marry a beautiful and brave woman"

Not a bad sentirandfather called Winston Stiles is at the supernatural holding facility He ca the day still delusional and violent, so they sedated hiht have called it a holding facility, but in reality it was a prison where the city’s supernatural convicts were held Those an Hill, the man who’d attacked me and left me for dead, the reason Ethan made me a vampire The o, when he’d been helping Sorcha

The man I’d let live

"Was he able to tell the about the source of the delusions?" I asked

"No," Ethan said "When he surfaced, he talked about the voice again, begged theh one of his restraints and got his hands on a guard He was sedated after that, at least until they can figure out what to do"

"Does he need ?" I asked