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"Good to know" If I slapped him, would he shut the hell up?

"Don’t be mad, Glory, I heard a sweet coh where she’d hit hi to explain hoith Melisandra When I was around her in Miami, my thirst was out of control I could barely think about anything but having her blood It had to be some kind of voodoo spell she’d worked on me Then, ere close" He stared down at his boots "Well, I finally refused to fuck her again I won’t call itinto so to start up again I still had that unnatural thirst, but Ioff"

"This isn’t helping, Jerry" I dugacross the roo my hands around his neck Jerry was a wonderful, powerful lover I had a picture now of his body against Mel’s, his mouth on hereverywhere

It was all I could do not to scream my pain, turn Jerry to stone, or toss his precious coffee table around the roolass rained over us and the chrome was a twist of metal that I used to castrate him

Cait obviously saw my evil set this straight Mia a break?" Cait was trying to soothe troubled waters Obviously I looked pretty scary "Come on, Glory, you know you’ve had other men when you tere apart Cut him some slack"

"Oh, I have Cut him slack and had other men" I finally threw off s I moved my arms so that the satin stretched over my breasts Jerry took note of course He liked h shit

"I’ll tell you all about thes and lickedJerry "But we’re done with our extracurricular activities now Since this bitch has threatened et rid of her What do you say, Jerry? Are you on board with that? Or has she got you under her spell again?" The devil made me do it? Laone for good That’s the only reason I confronted her last night I had my knives ready, fully prepared to kill her if I had to You know that, Gloriana How the hell things went so wrong" He ran his hands through his hair "This ed you" Bart stood in the door from the kitchen "I hope you don’t mind, but I kept that extra key and let myself in the back door"

"Doctor" Jerry turned, clearly ju Not--"

"Not amnesia Or at least not a recurrence of your old problem" Bart came into the rooerous tonight"

I nodded "Thanks, Bart That’s exactly the look I was going for"

"A drug, you say Any idea what kind?" Jerry sat again, clearly relieved

"You don’t want to discuss this now" Bart glanced at me

"Oh, yes, he does" I leaned forward "Was it the date rape drug? Did that voodoo vixen make Jerry have sex with her under the influence?"

"What the hell?" Jerry shot to his feet again, one of his knives in his hand "No one can force me to do that"

"Want to bet?" Bart faced hi et what happened, and does a number on your libido While you were under its influence you had to have sex, ild for it It scrambles your brain, makes you lose touch with reality and of course wipes out your ined you ith another lover Gloriana for exa the act, I’ed you hate Glory even ered away, holding on to the banister when he headed up the stairs

"Bart! Surely there’s been a"You really think Jerry ht have had sex with Mel and not realized who or what he was doing?"

"Exactly" Bart sat in Jerry’s spot and pulled Cait against hi The bitch was clever Ian and I are still trying to figure out how she got it into Jerry" He spouted soht over my head

"He didn’t want to drink from her He wanted to kill her" I looked toward the stairs I wanted to go to Jerry, console him somehow But the idea that he’d been intimate with that womanMy stomach churned