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So what's plan B, exactly?" "You heard Saga." I glanced at Connor. "The bogs. Saga said there are some runaway with collars living there. So I'll be bait. They'll chase me, thinking I'm weak. And then you'll grab one." Quinn looked at Connor then groaned. "On my God, it's like talking to Lucy."
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What's going on, miscreant?" Logan stood in the doorway, wearing his favorite frock coat as usual, but there were rips in his jeans. I lifted my eyebrows at his pants. "Holes?" He was impeccable about his fancy goth clothes. "Isabeau," he admitted ruefully. "The Hounds are a great tribe, but they have no sense of fashion." "So she tore your jeans?" He grinned. "No, she tore at a . I just happened to get in the way." I grinned back at him. ..
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Helena paused. "Lucy?" "Yes?" She ran a hand over my hair and kissed my cheek, just like she kissed Solange's cheek when Solange was little. "We love you very much. But your mother and I will both lock you in a basement for the rest of your life if you try to follow us." She speared Kieran with the kind of look that made us all squirm even though it wasn't even aimed at us. "We're trusting you to take her back to school where it's safe." He..
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Madame Vernoique arched an eyebrow imperiously. "Due to being exiled, your parents have been ... isolated in these mountains." "Did she just call us hillbillies?" Quinn drawled. "Hey," Duncan broke in mildly. "Some of my friends are hillbillies." "Are they horror-movie mountain folk like us?" "I'll be sure to ask Bryn next time I see her." --
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A girl in long pigtails nearly closed the door on her thumb as I approached. Her friend nudged her. She nudged back. They whispered furiously to each other. I overheard a lot of "you ask her" and "no, you ask her". And then the second girl shoved her friend right into my path, solving the argument."
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Kieran, can you make a run for it with Lucy?" Nicholas asked. "'You can take one of the Jeeps," he added as Logan tossed Kieran his keys. "I'm not leaving you guys," I sputtered. "When did you fall and hit your head?" "Lucy, you're out of arrows and we're out of options." He darted a quick glance at Quinn, who was behind me. I grabbed a fistful of Nicholas's shirt. "I'm not leaving you, you big dumb idiot." I whipped my head around and shot..
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Think they'll work it out?" Nicholas asked. "The emo twins?" I asked. "They love each other, so yes. Plus, I plan to smack their heads together."
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The more magic you used to keep monsters away, the more monsters were drawn to you.
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They love. They laugh. They die. If that's not living, what is?
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Nicholas pulled back slightly but his gaze stayed scorchingly fastened on Lucy, even when he spoke. "Aggie, go beat someone up." "I already did." She absolutely, positively would not blush. The front door slammed open. "Or Cal did. . And something else beat up Fletcher. He's in the living room." Nicholas pushed away from Lucy. "You know, most people collect stray dogs, not rabid homicidal teenagers." "But I don't know anything about dogs,"..
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Turn your weaknesses into strengths, that's what Oliver was always telling us. Currently, my weakness was a rock digging into by backside.
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I don't need a babysitter." She huffed. "I can take care of myself." "No, you can't," Sky and I both replied together. I'd been saying the same thing to Solange and Lucy since they were barely old enough to talk. She glowered at us both and folded her arms. Lucy once poured honey all over my favorite bike; a little glower didn't faze me."
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I wanted to save him from my mother." "She told me there was blood in the basement fridge if I was thirsty. Your mom rocks." "Yeah, wait until she tells Nicholas that being the bloodsucking undead doesn't excuse him from family dinners or safe sex." Solange choked. "She wouldn't." Our glances met. "She totally would." "Yup," I said."
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Sometimes fighting petty was better than not fighting at all,
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We walked the circuit, passing the food stands frying funnel cakes and burgers, and the game booths, ceilings bristling with giant, multicolored stuffed animals. I paused in front of the crossbow game. Nicholas cocked an eyebrow. "Want me to win you a stuffed bunny?" "Ha." I rubbed my hands together. "I'll win my own stuffed bunny, thanks very much." Nicholas passed the attendant a few dollars to pay for my turn. "I guess it's nice to see y..
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It was a reasonable assumption on my part.' 'Your assumptions stop being reasonable when they come from fear instead of facts.
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Well, she's saving your butt from being sent back to New York, so play nice." "I am playing nice," Aggie insisted. "For someone raised by wolves."
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Growing up with the Drakes does have its advantages, even though someone's always trying to kill me. And plus we were kissing at the time." "When you kissing?" Quinn teased. "When I'm punching you," I shot back with a grin."
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Do you think Kieran thinks I did it?" "No, of course not. But speaking of which, has he called you yet?" "No." "Have you called him?" "No." "Are you both doing this on purpose to make me nuts?" "Oh, right, like that's our fault," she scoffed. "You were born that way. Too much tofu." I smiled. "I miss you, fangface." "Me too." "Enough to call Kieran?"
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At least three of the girls in the front row were already whispering behind their hands. When Quinn winked at them, they started giggling. Lucy shook her head. "The Drake brothers, making girls stupid since 2002." The eldest of the brothers, Sebastian, had turned sixteen in 2002, and changed into a vampire, as all Drakes did. Even without the famous vampire pheromones, they were dangerous. "Please. I was born pretty." And they knew it."
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Not a woman, Gretchen corrected herself, a spirit. She glowed violently, outlined in frozen moonlight and fire.
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A kiss implied an introduction, a kind of conversation unwinding between two people. Usually two people who could actually stand each other's company. This was like being thrown into the middle of the ocean when you'd never even set foot into a creek before. He spun me around, pressing me against the stone wall as if even gravity was too much of an interruption, as if he couldn't spare a single scrap of energy for standing, not when he coul..
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She held a pink mug filled with blood, like Cal, Noah, and Nicholas. Lucy designated all pink mugs for blood consumption. She claimed it was not only sanitary to separate dishes, but that a vampire's worst problem was a tendency to brood. And it was hard to brood properly while holding a pink mug.
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I was going to see if you wanted to join. I think it would be good to have your perspective, just coming into the school and everything. You might see stuff we don't even notice anymore." "You mean other than the fact that I'm surprised you guys don't run around in black capes and call each other Van Helsing?" "Yes." She rolled her eyes. "Other than that."
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Hunter had inherited her grandfather's house after he died at the Battle of Violet Hill. She'd spent weeks finding and dismantling all of the hidden anti-vampire booby traps. Quinn didn't find the second holy water dispenser until he took a shower and nearly died.
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We're never alone," he said, kissing her ear slowly, until she shivered. "You've stuffed the farm full of crazy people." "You should be used to that. It's how you grew up." She leaned into him. "And I hate to say it but we're not alone now. Security cameras, remember?" She waved at one of them just as the front door opened. "Get a room, you two," Quinn grinned."
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I sweated blood running laps in this evil gym," Lucy replied. "Besides, uniforms give me hives. You know that. Where's the creativity?" "It was banned after you went through all the gym lockers and decorated everyone's stakes and school T-shirts with rhinestones." "I was expressing myself. It's healthy." The school board had considered it vandalism. Whatever."
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Hunter was adding another log to the fireplace in the living room. Lucy handed her a small package. "I made you guys something." Hunter pulled off the wrapping to reveal a small vampire Santa felt doll, complete with red hat and fangs. She shook her head, laughing. "You're the one who keeps sneaking these into the Christmas garlands at the academy. I should have known." "You really should have," Lucy agreed. "She made the delinquents help h..
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I'll drive you back home," Dad said, releasing a trembling breath. "I'll write you a note for your exam." I wrinkled my nose. "I don't think killing a vampire will get me out of an exam on killing vampires."
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And why exactly have you been staring at me all day? Didn't you parents teach you manners? Are you not even a little bit housebroken?" "They're still on the rez on the other side of the mountains. It's a little far for family dinners." I stared at him, then sighed, thoroughly disgruntled. "Well, damn it." "What?" "Now I have to invite you to my house for the next holiday so you're not alone and I don't even you." He just blinked. "You kno..
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Shouldn't your father be taking his seat in Parliament? Isn't that what earls do when they're too old to have any fun? Make sure you tell your older brother I said that when next you see him. He's become entirely too stodgy.
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It's some kind of magic," Samuel replied, glancing at me in the rear-view mirror. "I can see it coming off her like glitter." The car listed across the meridian. "Eyes on the road!" I told him. "And, that's just great. First Isabeau tells me my aura is candy-pink and now I'm all over glitter. Next, I'll be sneezing rainbows." "Ew," Jenna said. "Don't get any on me."
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I slid out of the car. "I bring gross undead creatures of the night," I said, by way of explanation. "A lot of them." "What the hell?" Quinn asked, even as he winked a hello at Hunter. I was pretty sure that Quinn could be dismembered and still manage to flirt. And for Hunter, he'd find a way to flirt even if he was full on dead and not just plain old undead. "With Solange out of town, I'm the new undead Pied Piper," I replied, limping clos..
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The lane was positively clogged with carriages and the ballroom packed with several hundred guests in their finest. I've never seen so many fans and feathered turbans. I do hope that particular trend fades quickly, it's rather distressing. Think of all those bald ostriches and peacocks.
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violet doesn't believe in ghosts...but they believe in her.
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