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Lady Maccon frowned Had she and Lord Akelda to him of Biffy’s tribulations, but as it was, she let her husband handle it If they, indeed, hborhood and hoh
She esture at Conall
Rather like a trained dog--although no one would dare suggest the co both his hands He hoisted his wife to her feet During the last fewhim thus on multiple occasions
Professor Lyall stood as well
"So it’s decided?" Alexia looked at the three supernatural gentlemen
They all nodded at her
"Excellent I shall have Floote ements Professor, can you leak our relocation to the papers so that the vampires find out? Lord Akeldama, if you would use your very own special distribution methods as well?"
"Of course, my little dewdrop"
"At once, rinned up at her husband, i herself, albeit briefly, in his tawny eyes--"have packing to do"
He sighed, no doubt conte the pack’s reaction to the fact that their Alpha was about to reside, at least part of the time, in town The Woolsey Pack was not exactly renowned for its interest in high society No pack was "How do youme into such situations, wife?"
"Oh"--Alexia stood on tiptoe and leaned in to kiss the tip of his nose, balancing her belly against his strong frame--"you love it Just think how terribly dull your life was before I caave her a dour look but ceded the point
Alexia nestled against hiendered in her own
Lord Akeldahed "You lovebirds, hoill I endure such flirtations constantly in my company? How déclassé, Lord Maccon, to love your oife" He led the way out of his drawing rooe, Lord Maccon scooped his wife against hi kiss on the side of her neck
Lady Maccon had initially thought Conall’s aressed, but she was happily ued by the alterations of her body--a spirit of scientific inquiry that took the fore it It was a good thing this was the season for such activities; London was experiencing quite the nicest surabbing his face in both hands, directed his kissing toward her rowl that was alot in the way, but the earl didn’t seem bothered
They spent a half hour or so thus pleasantly occupied until Alexia said, "You really don’tin Lord Akeldas for love in the past," he answered, rather unguardedly, before nibbling on her ear
Alexia shifted against hie bucked and theabove the door shattered
The earl ilass with his own body Even fully mortal, his reactions were fast and military sharp
"Oh, doesn’t that just take the sticky pudding?" said Alexia "Why is it alhen I’e?"
The horses screa halt Soainst their traces
In classic olf fashion, Lord Maccon didn’t wait to see what it was but burst out the door, changing for wolf
He’s brash, thought his wife, but terribly handso one of thethat would eventually branch off to Woolsey Castle Whatever had startled the horses see Lord Maccon a bit of stick Alexia poked her head out to see
Hedgehogs Hundreds of them
Lady Maccon frowned and then looked closer The ht, it was challenging to make out the particulars She reassessed her first ier than hedgehogs, with long gray spines They res she’d once seen in a book on Darkest Africa What had that creature been na products? Ah, yes, a porcupine These looked like porcupines To her utter amazement, they also see them into his fur-covered flesh
As each wickedly barbed spine hit, Conall howled in distress and bent to yank the projectile out with his teeth
Then he seeent? wondered Alexia Are they rabbed her parasol and stuck the tip of it out the brokenFirnetic disruption e down on the appropriate lotus leaf in the handle
The ani or reaction to the invisible blast Either the parasol was broken, which Alexia doubted, or the creatures had no ical as they initially appeared
Well, if they are biological… Lady Maccon took out her gun
The earl had objected to his wife carrying firearravy-boat attack After that, he took Alexia out behind Woolsey Castle, ordered twotrenchers over their heads, and showed her how to shoot Then he’d gifted her with a sun, American made and delectably deadly It was a 28 caliber Colt Paterson revolver, customized with a shorter barrel and a pearl handle--the former for ease of concealment and the latter to un Ethel
She could hit the Woolsey pot shed at six paces if she concentrated, but anything smaller or farther aas rather beyond her skill level This didn’t stop her fro Ethel, usually inside a reticuleEthel at any of the creatures near her husband She could just as easily daed to pull out most of the spines embedded in his body, but new and freshly equipped porcupines only fired at hi, as those projectiles ht, just possibly, be silver tipped However, while he seeed to hit hi, trying to get his deadly jaws about the creatures, but they seey animals