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“Don’t youdare,” she began.
Bones flung open the door.
Cat sucked in an appalled gasp. Justina looked at Bones with confusion that instantly faded as the part of her brain that subconsciously remembered their encounter told her who he was far faster than she’d originally recognized him. Then, rage filled her features, and she turned nearly the same purple shade as her Greco-styled gown.
“You!”
“Lovely to see you again,” Bones replied. “That frock looks very fetching on you.”
“Filthyanimal,” Justina snarled. “Every night I prayed you were dead and rotting in hell!”
And dismembered, cremated, and fertilizing your garden, Bones added, but all he said was, “You should have spoken up, then. The Almighty must not have heard you.”
“Mother,” Cat said in a sharp tone. “Enough! And you.” Now, her glare was aimed his way. “Whatever you have to say to me can wait until this reception is over. That’s my friend and yours out there, waiting for us to get wedding pictures with them, and that is what we’re going to do.”
“Pictures?” Justina repeated in a near shriek.
Cat gave her mother a single shake. “Yes, and if you do anything to trash Denise’s wedding, I’ll…I’ll let him bite you!”
Bones flashed his fangs at Justina. She looked incensed, but when Cat turned to him, he only wore an innocent smile.
“Happy to oblige, Kitten.”
“Out,” she said with an emphatic wave at the door.
“Ladies.” He doffed an imaginary cap and walked away.
“You can’t expect me to allow anyone to stay under the same roof as thatmonster,” he heard Justina say.
“Oh, you will,” Cat replied in a steely voice. “Denise is going to have the lovely day she deserves even if I have to knock you unconscious and stuff you in one of those stalls.”
“Go ahead!” Justina retorted. “As soon as I wake up, I’ll call Don and tell him what’s happening here.”
Bones slowed. That wouldn’t do-
“You do, and I swear to God that I’ll have Bones change me into a vampire this verynight.”
An impressive threat, not that he’d comply. He never changed anyone unless they truly wanted it, and Cat didn’t. But, Justina’s gasp was so horrified that he smiled.
“You wouldn’t!”
“Try me,” Cat said in a deadly purr. “Call Don, and I’ll be rocking a new pair of fangs before the sun is up.”
This saved him from mesmerizing Justina again. She’d never call Cat’s bluff on this. It was her worst fear.
“That’s what he wants from you, Catherine,” Justina said. “He wants to steal your soul and turn you into a beast!”
“Well, then you’ll bear that in mind and keep your mouth shut, won’t you?” Cat replied tartly. She also sounded closer. Bones slipped behind one of the decorative columns in the hallway. “And call me Cristine,” Cat went on. “Can you be more obvious that I have an alias?”
Moments later, Denise ran toward Cat.
“I’m so sorry!” Denise said. “I didn’t know that Randy’s friend was…” her voice lowered to a whisper. “A vampire! But don’t worry. I talked to Randy. He was amazed I knew they existed, too! We have so much in common. Anyway, Randy says he’s known him for months and that he’s harmless.”
“Harmless?” Justina sounded like she’d swallowed a toad.
Bones snuck a glance around the column. Her face was worth it.
“We aren’t talking about a dog that may or may not bite,” Justina went on. “We are talking about amurderer-”
