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“Where are you?”
“Downtown. Leolintricallus—something or other. It goes on for a while.”
“We get an additional syllable for every century we live,” Leo said, frowning. “Although I never thought I’d live long enough to see this. What the heaven were you thinking?”
“I wasn’t.”
“That’s clear enough!”
Great. The only thing worse than falling for a vamp would be having Leo tell everyone I’d fallen for a vamp. “Look, Leo, it’s not what you—”
“Dorina!” Mircea’s voice snapped.
“You sound annoyed.”
“It would not be without cause!”
“What now?” I asked wearily.
“Point number one,” he said grimly.
“Wait. There are points?”
“You do not tell me you are being chased by Hounds, and that you will call me back and then fail to do so! You have not answered your telephone for the majority of the evening!”
“I didn’t have it for the majority of the—”
“Point number two: you have free access to my properties, but I would very much appreciate it if in future my bedrooms were off-limits!”
“Woah. You did the boinking in your dad’s bedroom?” Leo looked vaguely impressed.
“Stop eavesdropping!”
“Are you kidding me? Your life is way better than anything on the soaps lately.”
“Dorina.” It sounded like Mircea might be grinding his teeth.
“Is there a point number three?” I asked. “Because you’re interfering with my drinking here.”
“Yes. If it will not inconvenience you too greatly, I should like to speak to Louis-Cesare.”
“Sorry. You missed him.”
“And yet Horatiu tells me he recently left tracking you.”
“Tracking?” I asked, getting a sinking feeling.
I jerked open the duffel, and there it was, buzzing softly. I stared at it for a moment in disbelief. He’d tagged me. The son of a bitch had tagged me with my own damn c
harm.
“I’m going to have to call you back,” I said grimly, clicked the phone shut and jumped up—only to find myself staring into a pair of burning blue eyes.
“Uh-oh,” Ray muttered.
Louis-Cesare didn’t say anything, unless you count breathing heavily.
“Look, this isn’t what you think,” I said, getting a solid grip on the duffel. “I wanted to get Ray away so we could talk—”
