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"Now that is so your time here?"

"I as differently at ti so much from her"

"Well, I’ll admit that I was surprised when the news came" Murphy poured her a cup of tea before he served one to hi of blood "Both that you’d turned and that you were sired to fire" He studied her carefully masked face No one outside the family knew that she hadn’t chosen to turn As far as she was concerned, it could stay that way It was family business

"It was a surprise But fire usually is"

"I understand no one was hurt"

"That’s correct And I’ve becovery well I’ My physical reaction tiave him a rueful smile "As much as I may have hated the PT that Tom forced on me, it appears to have been an excellent preparation for immortality"

"So you said over the phone" He took a sip of the tea The delicate china ht have made a less masculine man look dainty Patrick Murphy did not have that probleer "I’m sure Tom will be happy to hear it But it doesn’t surprise me that you can wield fire effectively In fact, if I could have predicted any person beco a fire vampire, it would have been you"

She almost choked on the mouthful of blood "What, me? Why?" Was that a compliment? Insult?

"You have one of the most passionate personalities I’ve encountered in… well, hundreds of years And yet, you keep such a tightly controlled exterior, Brigid It’s really rather extraordinary I don’t doubt you’ll wield your ele else"

Brigid blinked and set down herShe sed, then picked up the tea he had poured her, drinking it black "Uhed and the dimple made another appearance "You’re welcome It is a compliment I admired you as a huer to know you in your ianization As is Tom The whole team is ready to have you back ho well" He quickly steered the conversation away froid and onto the other ut-wrenching emotional work as she’d done in the previous three months, she was happy to have the focus off her The intense counseling sessions with Anne were as exhausting as the eleaining confidence with her new physical strength, she was still wrung dry by her talks about her past The iist had needed to return to her hoid to keep a journal while she was gone

Murphy served her a s and helped himself to another cup of tea

"Thank you," she said

"You’re very welco to remember if we’ve ever shared afrom a dealer once, but I’h filled the room "No, it doesn’t Ah, Jack…" He shook his head "A trouble noises about dreading your arrival, but I’ives hiie and see if I can give her so without so headith the local connection, though" Their eyes met for a moment and held "He ood! It see into dead ends before I left" She leaned forward, her food forgotten "What is it? What did he find?"

"He was looking around the warehouse where they’d been holding Ioan…" Brigid thanked the heavens that her color could no longer give her away That was the place where she’d overdosed The place Deirdre had fed her i her irrevocably into what she had becoht the scent? Did he kno it had happened?

She shook her head and focused on what Murphy was saying It didn’t matter For so if he did know

"…So it appears that soain I know you heard about it at a party Lorenzo held while he was in town last Declan said you’d called it a club of some sort An after-hours place like mine on the riverfront?"

She searched her meing to Carwyn’s old enee "Josh--the A out’ there That it was kind of a club, but a private one I had the feeling it would be where they would bring hu But he also said that Emily had been there, too She’s hu She was dating one of your sort--" Brigid broke off as Murphy smiled "Well, my sort now, I suppose He was a friend of theirs, it sounded like" She took another sip of tea, wondering how badly she’d stuck her foot in it "Anyway, the American said Emily had been there He invited "