Sorry, Ms. Terwilliger. I'm flattered that you think I'm such an upstanding person, but I'm already caught up in one epic battle of good versus evil. I don't need another.
Richelle MeadLure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person he can ignore-well, that he used to not-never mind. Once he's out, we can get him to a place we choose." I nodded. "I can do that." "No," said Dimitri. "You can't." "Why not?" I asked, wondering if he thought it was too dangerous for me. "Because they'll know you're a dhampir the instant they see you. They'll probably smell it first. No Strigoi would have a dhampir working for him-only humans." There was an uncomfortable silence in the car. "No!" said Sydney. "I am not doing that!
Richelle MeadIt won't be that simple though, will it?' She sounded wise beyond her years. 'Things are going to get worse before they get better, aren't they?
Richelle MeadNot much could have distracted me from coffee, but hearing Julius Caesar quoted at Spencerโs certainly did.
Richelle MeadIn this one terrified moment, my mind couldnโt focus on any of it. โIโve forgotten everything.โ โNo, you havenโt.โ His voice in the darkness was calm and reassuring. He smoothed back my hair and pressed one of those half kisses to my forehead. โJust relax and focus." โHis reasonable words centered me and allowed the gears of logic that ran my life to take over again.
Richelle MeadWine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet robes to best effect. "Well of course it is. I'd never dream of giving wine to an infant! What do you take me for, a barbarian? But for you... well, it might go a long way to make you a little less jumpy. You've been positively unbearable to live around. "I can't have it either. It affects the babies in utero.
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