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Darius nodded "Done As I said, my interest in her has many facets As does my interest in you"

"I know But you’d be surprised at how e"

"Oh, I doubt it Not compared to…" He paused, and his face softened before a confused scowl crossed his visage

Eave a va he wanted any part of

"Anyway" Eht and ht for the handoff You have"Keep your head down"

"Don’t I always?" Emery set very far when someone much scarier than a vampire could ever be stepped into his path

He threw up his hands "I’oodbye I told you I’d leave, and I am Penny is safe from me She’s free to find someone with some worth, like you said"

Penny’s ed, stared him doith all the fire he occasionally saw spark in Penny’s eyes right before she did so crazy "She found someone orth She just needs that soobsmacked That had not been what he’d expected

"Listen" Ms Bristol shifted and gingerly switched the hand still holding the envelope frohter is a lot like her father was She always sees the best in people She can be timid, and she can wreak havoc, but she is true to herself When it comes to her principles, or et out She believes in you She trusts you And I would have to agree with her sentiments Now it’s just you who has to believe in yourself You who has to trust yourself If you could do that, then you would be deserving of her, and her of you It all comes down to you"

All he could do was stare and blink Of all the unexpected things these last few days, this was probably the lanced around hiet this?" She indicated the envelope

"Stole it, and a lot of other records, out of the guild’s records roo like mad"

Her eyes narrowed "Can’t be a coincidence that they picked out a random Sheriff’s file"

"I suspect not He wants to know etting one over on her is going to be easy, he doesn’t know very rin "I suspect not"

She harrumphed "Well, then" She patted his shoulder "Take care, Eet about us"

"Yes, ma’am"

He waited for her to disappear into the hallway before he headed for the door

Chapter Forty-Three

"Ready to police the neighborhood?" Veronica asked, standing on et ’em all, ladies" My mother handed me a black pen and nodded seriously "There’s a lot of work to be done" Her pat was more like a shove

With an annoyed scowl, since my mother was still very hborhood Teeks after the es, colorful robes, and naked people (which somehow didn’t appear in any newspapers or result in an extended police investigation), ere squared away in a temporary home near Duval It was a pretty small rental, but thanks to the new identities that Darius had arranged for us, no one knee were The guild wasn’t actively looking fortheir compound), so for the ave e to tellfor New Orleans as soon as she was safely settled soed toward alack of co to tell you My dad says you’re banned from our new home"

Veronica’s family had also needed to ra with the cops, but were actually dealing alking corpses

"I can’t really blah hell on ed "Yeah, I guess That didn’t stop h"