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Pulse thudding hard in his neck as he rose to his full height, the butler sed “Perhaps you’d like to leave a card?”
“Perhaps you’d like to tell yourhere with his head and no other part of him”
Going paler, if that was even possible, the butler said, “Of course, sir Please wait in the living area” He waved to their right
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Venom prowled into the roo hiht glee “You enjoyed that, didn’t you?”
“The butler has a repugnant taste for young flesh”
“Ugh How come old vampires are so creepy?”
“I’ll ask Dmitri”
“I’ll punch you if you so much as mention that question to him,” Holly threatened “I don’t mean Dmitri or Trace or other sane vaet off on pain and ugliness” She poked at an ornate gold cushion edged with thick black satin rope “Money clearly doesn’t buy style”
Venom watched her take a seat on the equally ornate sofa, a ss and watched the doorway Her intense focus would surely terrify Kenasha Amused by the idea, Venom moved to the left, so that Holly ho Kenasha would see when he walked in
That happenedin It really took a lot of work for an angel to elic race was extraordinarily beautiful So beautiful that an angel could still soel as some vampires coveted He didn’t even want to sleep with one—he’d been there, done that, but he could admire their sheer physical beauty the sa work of art
Kenasha, however, bucked the trend His body was flaccid and without shape—and fat on an angel took serious coy His hair was a blond poht’ve been in style a few centuries back, but even then wouldn’t have suited his round face
His wings were patchy In the three hundred and fifty years or so since Venoht The only ti feathers had been after an accident when they’d lost part of their wing and the feathers were in the process of regenerating Kenasha, by contrast, appeared as if he’d fallen victi his feathers to waste away and drop off
“What’s the ry voice before freezing as his eyes landed on Holly “Who are you?” It cahtly squeaky
Holly smiled slowly and didn’t move a muscle “Holly And I really want to claw out your eyes, then crush your glistening eyeballs under the heel of my boot” Her smile never faded
Kenasha gulped and took a stu step backward
It took effort for Venoh centuries of experience, he stepped out of the shadows Kenasha swayed on his feet at first sight of Venoh his wraith of a butler had to have clued him in as to the identity of his visitor
“We have so to discuss,” Venom said mildly “You should sit”
The angel didn’t argue, instead sinking into a large arreen Ugly Really ugly Just like the being who occupied it—and Veno about Kenasha’s physical appearance “We found a vas to you A female Brown hair, blue eyes, thin”
“Oh” Kenasha’s tensed shoulders relaxed “I lent her to so to check”
As if Veno in his voice, when he saw her start to uncross her legs
“Just one eye,” she said in a pleading tone so unlike her that he alhed