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Dev’s inquiries of the household staff revealed he’d once been a duke close to the monarchy, if his remarks about it were to be believed Until he was turned, a made vampire, and of course had to fake his death, since it beca Like many British outcasts, he’d ended up in Australia

He could haveto kiss arses that low on the toteland He wants them to hand it to him like a damned royal scepter

Better to reign in hell, hmm?

So like that

It was re in animated conversation with Ian and Charles at the sa his own tracking as well She sounded as if she were at tea in her own garden, all gracious beauty and seductive appeal Apparently, their physical exercise before dinner had helped He was glad for it, though he was going to have bruises the size of fists

I’ll kiss every one of them

Promises, promises

He’d also discovered the station wasn’t completely a nest of testosterone, besides the maids The staff had indicated Ian’s and Charles’s full servants were both feh he’d not yet seen either

For reasons that should be rather obvious to you, vampires choose full servants that mesh with their sexual preferences

While Ian and Ruskin can be adventurous, their primary preference is women

Well, that’s less than co ripped out than being buggered

Stepping out onto the porch, he saw an old swag wood next to it Every staffHowever, when the lance The old ain,” he said in a voice n of perot herself a human servant Good I’m Jim”

“Dev But I’ave hi

“Diirl Shoulda known”

“Hold up” Dev arrested hi back to the shadows “You’ve known her awhile, then And Lady Daniela has never taken a full servant?”

“Not that anyone’s heard about” Jim scratched at some blistered skin on his nose “I came onto this place when I was barely twenty, stayed to work for her mother and then her Knew she’d be back, so I stayed For her” His tone ive a spit about any of Ian’s lot Dev bit back a smile and wondered how the old bloke had lived to his current age, but then realized he wasit clear where his loyalties lay, the first staff uts to do it He sharpened his attention

“Her erous not to have one,” the old irl, she was always a free spirit Kind of like a bloke about e, way she acted about it Keeps herself shielded on all sides, that one”

“Well, you keep yourself protected on all sides, can’t be buggered by no one, can you?” Jiave him a tobacco-stained and mostly toothless smile “Except yourself, mate That’s the rat bastard you really have to look out for”

Before Dev could respond, he hiked off, one bu it h that Dev spun in defense, knife half drawn The man halted, eased back “Truce, mate Ain’t no call for any mischief until they finish their dinner I wanted to knohat old Jim had to say to you”

“He’s planning to stake the lot of theo signal by cackling like a kookaburra”

“Think you’re a s, have you?” Theyellow teeth, but his eyes were shrewd and dark, not entirely unpleasant While Dev didn’t take his hand away fro a hip on the rail