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"Sorry Raised Catholic, so it’s a sore point with et that about you"

"What?"

"That once you were a good little Catholic schoolgirl"

"I actually didn’t go to Catholic school"

"Really, so no little plaid skirt outfit?"

"No Sorry to disappoint you"

"Schoolgirl really isn’t "

"Somehow I didn’t think it would be"

I could almost hear the smile on the other end of the phone as he said, "I don’t think either of us spends a lot of ti what each other’s kinks are"

"Nope," I said

"So why is She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Na apeshit with her vampires?"

"Damian doesn’t think it’s her"

"Could it be soe?"

"He only left five years ago, Edward, and he says she’d kill any of her vaal in more countries than ever before, Anita Why is she still in hiding if she’s not doing this?"

"Apparently, she’s like a lot of the really old ones She doesn’t believe the new attitude will last and when the huain, she’ll still be hidden in her fortress in Ireland, untouched"

"Then Daroup isn’t the only vah to keep out other vampires for centuries If she can’t stop this neave, then Dao froh that you don’t even want to speak her na a bunch of new vauess on that"

"Do you?"

I thought about it as I drove through the night-dark neighborhoods, wending my way toward the old warehouse district that, thanks to the Circus of the Daentrified into a tourist attraction area

"Anita, you still there?"

"I’row in power or fade The force I felt a few years back wasn’t going to fade away"

"If She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Na this, but she can’t stop it either, then what is going on?"

"It would al more powerful than her that’s just arrived in Ireland"

"What could bethat can throw fear halfway across the world?"

"I’d say the Mother of All Darkness, but she’s dead"

"We killed her," he said

"Yes, we did" I could have quibbled that the actual killing part was ht his way to me with reinforcements I’d have been dead instead of her, so "we" killed her Striking the death bloithout acknowledging all the people who helped you get in place to deliver it is just poor sportsh to make She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Naht?"