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Already the store’s custohs Co her landlord nervous Building and fire inspectors had put in their appearances and an unmarked car with plainclothes cops sometimes parked across the street

Lilia sat on a stool and watched it all through a mild haze The trick she told herself was to keep the nips and bites s horrors of withdrawal too well to want a repeat

Just then Larry ca sloppy and vulnerable He scanned the custoing around, talking over old times at CBGB’s and the Mudd Club She’d bitten hieance thrown in Her teeth were hardly fangs

She wanted to ot in the divorce settleuerite that last tilimpses of the investment proposal on their table

They were involved in the development of a Betty Ford style clinic for vampires on an estate up the Hudson Kids like Scarlet, Bret, and many others had families able to pay for their recoveries

Lilia intended to invest Larry’s ht invest sos He crossed the shop towards her and she watched his throat

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Disease Control had sprayed while Petra was asleep, and her boots kicked up little puffs of pigs to the shop

Chronon read underneath) was the abonder boutique in the northern hemisphere The floors were real date-verified oak, the velvet curtains shipped fro the six weeks in ’58 when one of the Vagabonder boys slept with a Wright brother and planes hadn’t been invented

Si buttons by era of origin Petra hadn’t figured out until her fourth year working there that Simone didn’t live upstairs, and Petra still wasn’t convinced

As Petra crossed the floor, an oak beahed "Petra, wipe your feet on the lanced over her shoulder; behind her was a line of her footprints, old

The first client of the day was the heiress to the O’Rourke fortune Chronomode had a history with the family; the first one was the boy, Jaht and ruined Sienerously paid for ships they sent back with Jaht was only teeks late Some stamps became very collectible, and the O’Rourkes beca to each of their children as 21st birthday presents Of course, you had to be twenty-five before you were allowed to Bore back in time, but somehow exceptions were alwaysinto notoriously short life spans

Simone escorted Fantasy O’Rourke personally to the center of the shop, a low dais with a three-frame mirror The curtains in the ere already closed by request; the O’Rourkes liked toair of secrecy they could pass off as discretion

"Ms O’Rourke, it’s a pleasure to have you with us," said Simone Her hands, clasped behind her back, just skim, Sin of an amateur

"Of course," said Ms O’Rourke "I haven’t decided on a destination, you know I thought land"

From behind the counter, Petra rolled her eyes Everyone wanted Victorian England

Simone said, "Excellent choice, Ms O’Rourke"

"On the other hand, I saw a historian the other day in the listings who specializes in 18th-century Japan He was delicious" She seisha district What would I look like then?"

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