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Evie presses her hands over her cheeks. “Now, now, ladies, my mind went places that are making me hot all over.”
“Me too, friend,” Julie says. “My loins can’t remember what it’s even like, and you go on mentioning both. Twin vampires. Oh my.”
“The feeding?” Evie asks, deflecting the conversation.
Julie nods. “He was trying to feed, but kept throwing up.”
“Vampires can’t get sick,” I say. “They’re the undead.”
Someone knocks on the door, and the three of us jump. Since I’m nearest the door, I walk over and turn to Julie. “Who is it?” I whisper at her.
Julie shrugs. “I don’t know.”
“Open the door and find out,” a male voice says from outside.
“Ledger?” Evie rushes to the door. I think that answers my question about Ledger and Evie and all the blushing that happened at the table. I make a mental note to ask her why she never told me about him.
Or his brother. If there’s something to say about both or either of them.
Leroy, not Ledger, is at the door. Their voices sound alike.
Evie’s excitement drops a notch, and she fumbles to recover the obvious deflated smile with a clumsy curtsy before peeking over his shoulder. When she steps back, and fear laces her scent, I know Nottuza stands outside.
Evie turns toward me, and I nod slightly, telling her I’m aware the general has come to call on me. For what reason, I can’t imagine. There are too many reasons, and yet, maybe to him, there are none.
“Summer princess.” Leroy bows. “General Nottuza wishes an audience with you.”
“He does, does he?” I ask.
Leroy moves away as if I’ll meet Nottuza outside now.
I take stock of the apron covering my sweatpants and sweater. I’m not dressed to receive a male who can turn away from me at will. A male I dumped. My ex-lover I can’t seem to unlove.
“There’s a new playground in town,” I say to Leroy. “Tell him I’ll meet him there.”
Evie closes the door before Leroy can get a word out. She turns to me and eyes me up and down. “That won’t do, my princess.”
“No shit.” I rush into the bedroom and start opening trunks, realizing we only have seven trunks here for both us, and we are utterly unprepared for a rebound.
35
FLEUR
Imake him wait.
For an unreasonable amount of time.
To the point where I wonder if he’ll leave.
At this late hour, near the middle of the night, all the children are fast asleep in their beds.
Only wicked, bad things that go bump in the night are awake.
One of them is me. The siren.
The other, my ex, who June called a faempire.
Before leaving the palace for the mountain, I looked him up in the court’s library. Unlike other notturnos, General Nottuza, also known as the Nightbound Soldier, is suspected to have retained his fae magic even while undead. Avocamagic, the same family of magic that my brother possesses, and I carry yet a different bloodline, an Unseelie one.
