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He laughed, pressed the gentlest kiss to my temple. Then turned his head to look at the damage done. The broken chair, the overturned table, the slashed wall. “She is going to have a fit.”
“Lulu or the cat?”
“Yes. We should make vampires wear fucking bear bells.”
“I—what?”
“Bear bells, so the vampires make noise when they move around.” He used two fingers to mimic little walking legs. “That way, the glamour wouldn’t work.”
“The bears don’t wear the bells,” I said, lips curving. “People wear bells so the bears know they’re coming.”
“Oh,” he said. “I guess I got that backward.”
No guessing about it; he’d said it to make me laugh.
“I let the monster fight him.”
His brows lifted with pleasure, with interest. “Did you?”
I nodded. “We’ve been... trying to work together.”
Saying that aloud helped settle something inside me, and I wasn’t sure if the ease was from me, or from it.
“Wise of both of you,” Connor said. “And advantageous.” Heleaned in, pressed a soft kiss to my lips. “Just make sure you stay in charge.”
“Am and will,” I said, and I looked toward the windows. “He probably wouldn’t go back to the hotel. Not now. Let’s go talk to Clive. We have things to discuss.”
***
We took turns cleaning up the loft and cleaning up in the bathroom, and sending messages.
Connor sent a warning to the Pack, in case Levi found his way there again. He also sent a message to Alexei, to keep him updated. I did the same for Lulu, then sent a message to my parents, told them we’d come by the House when we could, but to stay on high alert until Levi was found. I asked they relay the update to Nicole personally. I also had the inkling of an idea, and asked my parents to talk to Johnson, the guard who’d been injured when Clive had come to Cadogan House. He might be able to give us a little window.
I called Theo en route to the Portman Grand.
“Levi confessed to killing Blake and attacking Connor,” I told him. “Two of Clive’s vampires helped him.”
There was a moment of stunned silence. “And how do you know this?”
“He was waiting for me in the loft. He can hide himself with glamour.”
“Jesus, Lis. Are you all right?”
“Banged up, but I’ll heal.” I was getting sick of saying that. “We’re going to the Portman Grand. I want to have some words with Clive.”
“You think he knew?”
“That Levi killed Blake? Probably not. But that his brother is a threat? Yeah, I think he did know.”
“I’ll meet you at the hotel,” he said. “Don’t do anything rash, Lis. And don’t make more trouble for yourself.”
“Oh, the trouble won’t be for me,” I assured him. “But I’ll be the one to end this.”
***
Theo beat us to the hotel; we found him waiting in the lobby, surveying the luxury. “Posh,” he said when we reached him. The Portman Grand was one of the finest hotels in Chicago and probably the most expensive. Marble and wood and gold, with towering ceilings and the cool, quiet, rarefied air of luxury.
“Vampires,” Connor and I said together.
