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And later, after love had been shown and proven and restled our own de at the horizon with her rose fingers, ere on the bed in clean pajamas, a room service spread between us, and bottles of Blood4You and Veuve Clicquot on ice nearby

"I understand the food at the reception was divine," Ethan said, stretched on the bed besidecaviar onto a toast point "Not that we had ti a fan of fish eggs, I scooped guaca and mass mob will do that to a vampire"

"So I hear I noticed Jonah and Margot dancing"

I nodded "I’ether"

He glanced up atmatchmaker often backfires"

I snorted "When did you last play an"

I stared at hiain "You tried to set up Juliet and Morgan" Morgan was finally co into his own as Master of Navarre House, but even still, I couldn’t see hihter

"‘Tried’ being the operative word," Ethan said "It didn’t take" His voice was flat

"Well, of course not" I frowned, trying to ian "Oil and water"

"I don’t see why they should be They’re both senior staff, in a ent people, Morgan more so now that he’s stepped out of Celina’s shadow"

"Wrong personalities Wrong chemistry"

"There are so about us"

"And they’d be wrong," I said with a so in check"

"I a vampire," he said, with not one bit of sincerity or believability "And I keep you froave him a look

"Well, I try," he amended "And is that to be your official Dry Wife Expression? I’d like to go ahead and commit it to memory"

"You’re hilarious, husband"

"And you’re beautiful, wife Headstrong or otherwise"

A compliment either way

CHAPTER TEN

WE’LL ALWAYS (NOT) HAVE PARIS

I woke to the s in the fantasy that Chicago’s problems had resolved themselves and we’d been whisked away to Paris while we slept I’d open tall, iron s to a balcony, a wonderful breeze, and a view of the Eiffel Tower