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"Kill the son of a bitch tonight Maybe I'll do it after he leaves her My Victier to her He never stays in the same hotel with her He has three different apart "

"I' with you "

"No, go on, I have to finish this one I need you, I really need youI needed to tell you, and to have you with e-old venerable human needs, but I don't need you at

I don't have to read your mind to feel that much You starved as you came here, so that you wouldn't disappoint me Go prowl the city " I smiled "You've never hunted New York, have you?"

He shook his head in the negative gesture His eyes were changing

It was the hunger It was giving hiht the scent of the bitch in heat We all get that look, the bestial look, but we are nothing as good as bestial, are we? Any of usI stood up "The rooet them so that they look down on St Patrick's, won't you? Not too high up, low if you can do it, so that the steeples are close " "You are out of your brilliant preternatural mind "

"No But I' out into the sno I hear him up there

He's planning to leave her, he's kissing her, chaste and loving kissesHis car is prowling around out front He'll go way uptown to that secret place of his where the relics are kept He thinks his ene of it, or believe it's just the junk shop of a friend But I know of it And what all those treasures oes up there, I'll followNo more time, David "

"I've never been so coo with you "

I laughed I leant to give him a quick kiss on the forehead, so swift others would notthe fear, the instantaneous fear, I left hih above, Dora cried She sat by the atching the snow and crying She regretted refusing his new present for her If onlyShe pushed her forehead against the cold glass and prayed for her father

I crossed the street The snow felt rather good, but then I'm a monster

I stood at the back of St Patrick's, watching as h the snow, shoulders hunched, and plunged into the backseat of his expensive black car I heard hiive the address very near to that junk-shop flat where he kept his treasures

All right, he'd be alone up there for a while Why not do it, Lestat?

Why not let the Devil take you? Go ahead! Refuse to enter Hell in fear Just go for it

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