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get it all back in the box.
Oh boy. I'm in smartass mode and Vayl wants to break his ex's neck. If we don't play this
right they'll be scraping parts of us off the bumpers of these cars for days.
Liliana flipped a chunk of her long, polyester hair back over one shoulder. "These
surroundings are rather& public, don't you think?" The smile she gave Vayl could've
cured frostbite. "Come into my car." It wasn't a request.
Vayl's gaze cut her like an arctic wind. "No."
"You owe "
"I owe you nothing."
She moved so fast her arm was a blur. Vayl caught it just before her hand connected with
his jaw.
"Back off, bitch," I snarled. With no time to draw Grief, I'd resorted to my primary
backup, a wrist sheath loaded with a syringe.
The needle was halfway into her hip before she could look down to see what was
pinching.
A series of mechanical clacks drew my attention to Liliana's goons.
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Chinese dude had added a sawed-off shotgun to his arsenal, pulling it out from behind his
long, black coat like a Matrix groupie. The tattooed wonder and his buds had their guns
locked and loaded and trained on us as well.
"What is in that syringe?" Liliana demanded.
"Slow, painful death by way of holy water," Vayl told her.
"My men can kill her before she depresses it."
"Then I will finish what she has begun. But perhaps you would prefer to talk?"
Liliana responded with a pretty little pout I was sure she'd practiced in a mirror before
she'd gone out for the evening. "All right, then," she said. "You always did like to have
things your way." By mutual, unspoken agreement I withdrew the needle and Vayl pushed
her away. The goons let their barrels drop.
"Is that really how you remember our lives together?" Vayl asked grimly. "Because I have
the scars to prove otherwise." Good God, had Liliana inflicted those marks on Vayl's
back?
"You earned every one of them," she said viciously, looking as if she'd like to hit him
again.
"Maybe." For a fleeting moment Vayl's guard fell. His expression became bleak as a dying
man's. Then it was gone, replaced by cold, hard hate. "Who told you I was here?"
"Why Vayl, it's not like I've been looking for you for the last 200 years. I could have found
you any time I wanted."
He shook his head, his eyes so dark you could imagine walking right through them and
emerging in a whole different universe. "Not true. Someone tipped you off to my
whereabouts."
She tilted her head, her hair forming a little river of silver behind her. "What makes you so
sure I was looking for you? But I did get your attention, yes? You did enjoy my show?"
She inclined her head towards the restaurant. "I thought you would appreciate the irony of
two sons losing their father."
Vayl's power spiked and the temperature in the immediate area plummeted. But he didn't
reply. If he'd tried, he probably would've spit sleet in her face.
"You must admit I have improved over the centuries," Liliana went on. "Once I would
have had to sink my fangs into him to kill him. Now it only takes a scratch." She slid her
fingernail against her creamy white forearm to demonstrate and a thin line of blood rose
from the wound she'd opened. Vayl stared at it, his hand convulsing on the head of his
cane. She stepped closer.
"Do not let her touch you, Jasmine," Vayl commanded. "Just a drop of her blood mixed
with yours will kill you."
Liliana recycled the pout. "Only if I want it to." She gave me a look I recognized right
away. It was Tammy Shobeson, the sequel. I half expected her to kick me in the shin and
call me a sissy pants crybaby. Her psychic scent hit me again, and the stench of death and
decay backed me up a step. "My dear, there is no need to be afraid. I won't hurt you& too
much." She darted a flirty little smile at Vayl, but he'd lost his appreciation for cruel
humor. And apparently she blamed me for that. When she met my eyes again I felt like
that poor goat they'd set out to bait the Tyrannosaurus in Jurassic Park. And that's when I
knew she really had come for me. That's also when she saw my bandage. Her eyes
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