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Valentine stood with the rest of us, but as we moved into the dining room and took our seats, I noticed he didn’t enter with us.
“Rayne,” I grabbed his arm, “Valentine is missing. Can you hear him?”
The redhead stopped and frowned, his eyes moving to the ceiling for a moment. Then his eyes widened, and he was gone before I could ask him what he had heard.
“Where’d Rayne go?” Allister asked as I took my seat beside him.
Picking up my knife and tapping the bottom of it on the table with my anxiety growing, I shook my head. “I don’t know. Trouble.”
“Fuck.” Allister mimicked my head shake. “And here I thought we might get out of this without bloodshed.”
I chuckled at that. “We’re vampires. If there’s not a bit of blood spilled, it isn’t a party.”
Sighing with a sad smile, Allister leaned back in his seat. “Too true.”
I watched the others, waiting to see when Antoine would notice. When he did, he didn’t get up. He didn’t freak out or even stand up. Antoine, ever the calm and poised one, gestured to Darren.
Darren leaned down next to him, his mouth close to Antoine’s ear. The human servant had learned to speak low enough that no one but Antoine’s could hear him, and what he said made Antoine’s lip tick.
With a jerk of his head, Antoine sent Darren on his way. Dinner started as if two of the party weren’t missing and the maid wasn’t in peril.
Who could eat at a time like this?
