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Carwyn laughed "I cannot tell you that, id is a good friend"

His smile softened "She is My mate is a woman of extraordinary character Don’t think I didn’t try to convince her to leave Dublin But she’s loyal, just like Anne"

"Then I suppose we’re both lucky bastards, aren’t we?"

MURPHY didn’t see Anne until the ht with Jetta, Rens, and the British vampires Jean Desmarais from Marseilles and Leonor froht before, and both were nowto lose patience "Everything we’ve uncovered so far says that Elixir is co out of the Eastern Mediterranean and is pointed at the North Sea It has to be coh Gibraltar"

"You have no evidence of that," the Spanish leader said, nonchalant "I ca to be immediately accused by those I considered allies"

Leonor was a dark-haired water vah royal blood certainly wasn’t an unusual claim made by immortals, Murphy suspected Leonor was an aristocrat in truth She appeared as a handsoh Murphy suspected she’d been closer to thirty in e well and had always--as long as Murphy had known her--had immaculate style More importantly, she was a dependable immortal leader in the notoriously unstable path between Europe and Africa Her shipping interests and joint econo the region

And she was more than respected She was feared Leonor had no consort and was allegedly very choosy regarding lovers lest one challenge her authority

Shortsighted, in Murphy’s opinion In his experience, leaders with a trusted consort were far more powerful and less vulnerable to takeover

"No one is accusing you of anything, Leonor," Murphy said "We’re si you what you’ve heard"

"Most likely the sahters pass through the strait in even a single day?"

"But surely there is soossip," Jetta said "Youhas not been seen in our cities It is not a priority for us A few isolated cases of hulanced at Anne, who passed hi There’ve been more cases than that, and she knows it