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“You think that’s funny?” Justina snapped.
Cat stifled her chuckles as she walked toward the head table where the wedding party was segregated.
“Well, Mom, he risked his life to save you, and then you tried to get him killed. My guess is that he doesn’t like you.”
“As if I care about him,” Justina muttered while Cat took her seat at the long, rectangular table. “What I care about is-”
“You havegotto be kidding me,” Cat burst out, staring at the name card next to hers. Bones already knew what it said: Cris Pin, the name he’d given Randy several months ago.
Bones slipped into his chair as Cat shot out of hers.
“Justina, we meet again,” Bones said. “Wouldn’t want to be rude, but I believe your table is over there.”
He pointed for effect.
Justina opened her mouth with an incensed sound, but then was cut off by Felicity’s loud, “There you are!” as she spotted Bones.
As soon as she reached him, Felicity grabbed Bones’s arm and tucked it near her cleavage. “You and I are paired off together, remember, so no more running off! Oh, and I hope you dance as good as you look.”
“Slut,” Cat said under her breath.
Felicity didn’t even turn her way. “What was that?”
Cat cleared her throat. “Good luck, I said.”
Felicity’s smile was full of promise as she stared at Bones. “I don’t need luck.”
You need more than that,Bones thought.You’d need a miracle rivaling all ten of the great Biblical plagues.
Cat finished her gin and tonic in one gulp. Then, she went back toward the bar, her mum following behind her.
“Oh, Ms.Russell,” Bones said, raising his voice.
Cat stopped, turning around almost guilty at hearing him say her borrowed surname.
“Be a luv and get me a drink, will you?” Bones said with a wicked grin. “You remember my preference, I’m sure.”
Cat’s glare promised revenge, but she continued to the bar.
“That filthy, lecherousanimal,” Justina hissed.
“Stuff it,” Cat said curtly. Then, her voice softened with feigned politeness as she said to the bartender, “Tall glass. All gin. Don’t even think about criticizing.”
Bones stifled his laugh. Her half-vampire nature required far more liquor than that to take the edge off. The poor bartender was in for a long night.
“Oh, yeah,” Cat said after taking a long swallow of her drink. “And one whisky, neat.”
Randy and Denise arrived, taking their seats after giving Bones and Felicity a hug. Cat’s seat was between Randy and Bones, and Denise was to Randy’s left. Bones was ignoring more of Felicity’s innuendoes when Cat returned, holding a pilsner-sized glass of gin along with a normal-sized glass of whisky. She set the whisky in front of Bones without comment and took another long swallow of her gin.
Felicity faked a gasp. “Cristine! Can’t you keep a lid on your drinking? This is my cousin’s wedding, for heaven’s sake!”
Bones had seen Cat give kinder looks to people she murdered. Then, the tall glass in her hand shattered.
“Motherfucker!” Cat snapped as glass and gin showered her.
Everyone within earshot stared. Cat’s cheeked reddened, and Bones stifled another laugh. Put her in a room full of rogue vampires and she’d slaughter them all without blinking, but among humans, she blushed over saying a naughty word. Priceless.
“Cristine! Are you all right?” Randy said, wrapping a napkin around Cat’s hand. Some of the shards had nicked her, causing a new, heady aroma to fill the air.
