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“That’s our girl,” I said.
“I think you can take credit for the fact that she calls out sexism wherever she finds it and whoever it’s aimed out.”
“The sexual double standard hurts all of us,” I said.
“As Becca reminds us all.”
“Think how much worse an influence I’d be if you didn’t live all the way in New Mexico.”
He laughed again.
Ethan said, “We’re going to be at the hospital soon.”
“I’ve just been reminded we need to focus on business,” I said.
“I want to reach out to Bernardo and Olaf, see if they know what preternatural beastie this could be,” Edward said.
“Bernardo, okay, but I don’t want to give Olaf an excuse to come to St. Louis.”
“I’m just reaching out to them for information gathering, Anita.”
“Olaf will use any excuse to work a case with me, Edward, you know that.”
“He and I have an agreement, Anita. He’s not allowed to come to St. Louis unless I’m going to be there first.”
Nicky held me close and said, “You don’t need to be afraid of Olaf with me and everyone else we have here in St. Louis.”
“Put me on speaker on your end,” Edward said.
I didn’t argue, just did it. “Hey, Edward,” Nicky said.
“Hey, Olaf is well aware that you have a small army of vampires and wereanimals at your beck and call in St. Louis.”
“You’ve made sure he knows that we’ve beefed up our security since his last visit here,” I said.
“We agreed that I would.”
Nicky said, “Olaf is good at researching a target. If you didn’t tell him, he’d find out.”
“I keep forgetting that you and he used to run in the same business circles,” Ethan said.
“If you mean that my old lion pride used to work for some of the same people that Olaf freelanced for, then sure.”
“It is interesting that Anita keeps attracting such dangerous men,” Kaazim said.
“You make it sound like she dates us,” Nicky said, “but it’s not like that.”
Edward said, “When people try to hire others to assassinate Anita, they have to find the most dangerous and capable people they can afford.”
“And our new queen seems able to win them to her side, every time,” Kaazim said.
“Not every time, sometimes I have to kill them before they kill me and mine.”
“If Jean-Claude had not found you first, you would have made a wonderful devotee to the bloodlines that feed on violence or killing,” Kaazim said.
“Vampires that feed on violence feed on the deaths that violence causes,” Edward said.
“You fought the Master of Death and his minions along with Anita, did they feed on violence?”
