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Carwyn exploded "One fight and she takes off on your bloody plane, Gio! She’s gone! Out of the country!"

"Don’t yell at me, I’m not the one whoof unintelligible ranting as he rushed in the house Baojia escorted Natalie up the walk

"Well, this should be interesting"

"I’ve never seen hiry before He was always the life of the party when he visited B at school"

"We don’t want to miss this, then" He nodded at Giovanni as they passed him in the hall The fire vampire also looked amused "We’ll pop popcorn It’s not the show the opera would be, but it should still be pretty good"

Her eyes widened "But is it going to be safe for spectators? That’s the real question"

"I thought you liked living on the edge"

"I think I’ve been a bad influence on you, George"

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

"So you decided leaving the country was the best response? Really, Brigid?"

The fire vampire’s reply was muffled by the walls outside the pool rooible to those with immortal ears, because Giovanni’s mouth dropped open in shock and Beatrice let out a very unladylike snort

Tenzin frowned as she reached for a kernel of popcorn fro in the middle of the hall "I don’t think that’s physically possible"

They were sitting on the floor outside the pool rooht

"All I know is that if I had to listen to another one of your size, Brigid!"

"Stop shovingto smoke!"

She leaned into Baojia’s shoulder, newly clean and recently fed She was happy in a way she hadn’t experienced in more years than she could count Baojia’s arainst the wood-paneled wall She loved him And she was fairly certain he loved her too, even if he hadn’t said it It wasn’t the kind of love she’d experienced in the past There was no giddy excitement No rush of hormones What Natalie had, instead, was a bone-deep sense of being exactly where she was supposed to be Next to hiave a low chuckle "They enjoy this"

"What, fighting?" Giovanni rolled his eyes "Yes Aled "Carwyn does say really stupid stuff so a thousand years celibate will do that to you" Tenzin grabbedbowl Most of it, Natalie could ad around with all these va out" Tenzin reached behind her and tossed another bag to Giovanni "More"