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The tresora tapped the small screen, which zoohts, one blue and one red, clustered together a few miles off the coast of Miami

"Herbert" Lucan looked enormously pleased "When this is done, I believe I shall send you to my private retreat in the Baha as you desire"

"I thank you, my lord, but I already have a lady friend, and we’d much rather prefer Marlins season tickets Shall I summon the fleet?" When Lucan nodded, Burke bowed and hurried off

Jaarded the suzerain "You have a fleet?"

Lucan sht a cordless phone to Lucan "There is a call for you, my lord It is from Vander"

Lucan’s expression turned icy "Put it on speaker" When Aldan pressed a button, he said, "I do hope your affairs are in order, Mr Vander You will find thee when I reduce you to a heap of rotting flesh, which shall be the h came over the speaker "You may look, ive you back your slut Give hold, and she is yours"

"Good-bye, Mr Vander" Lucan reached for the phone

"Would you care to bid your whore the same?" The sound of a scuffle caht voice as she said, "Lucan, we’re in trouble"

"I know," he replied, his voice as gentle as his eyes were , love, very soon now"

"Vander is Dutch, and he has barricaded hundreds of people inside his casino," she said "He’s had his ive hi to burn them alive"

Several bottles behind the bar exploded

"Don’t worry," Lucan said "We knohere you are, and ill give him what he wants"

"I love--," Saain "Since you knohere I am, you will coht Or I will set your women on fire and toss the rong with Lucan fro the speedboat didn’t belong to the jardin, while the suzerain sat down next to the cage he’d shoved her in and simply stared at the deck

"Don’t you think you should tellon?" she asked "I mean, am I in trouble? Do I have to leave South Florida? What?"

Lucan’s handsoan to melt "I suppose it does no harm," he muttered as he turned into a thin, snarled-haired woman with a dirty face

"Oh, God" Chris shoved herself back into one corner of the cage "Who are you?"

"My naed hem of her tunic, which to Chris’s eyes lookedwearable "You smell like Kyn, but you are mortal"

Chris wrapped her arether "Are you going to hurt me?"

"No" Werren nodded at the backs of the two men at the controls "They will, if you resist"

"Resist what? Why did you take e "Did you tranq him? Is that why he couldn’t move?"

"If you lanced back at the wake behind the boat "When I came into the house, I felt the presence of another like us An old one, like Dutch"

Chris heard the engine throttling down and looked over, squinting as bright lights blinded her side an old-fashioned wooden ship that see on top of the water A bump on the side of the speedboat drew her eyes to the side, where a shelf of coral reef appeared just beneath the water’s surface At the other end of the wooden ship ays attached to a bigger, more modern yacht, and ladders that dropped down to the decks of a half-dozen s thron to him from the old ship, and came over to Werren "He wants to see you on deck, Duchess" He reached up to the top of the cage and attached the cable before he let out a piercing whistle

Chris was thrown to the bottoripped the bars, looking down at Werren, who touched a finger to her lips beforeto climb off onto one of the ladders