“Yes, Alexia, pigeon, I mean to discuss that little incident with you. “Where do you think Ivy acquired her new hive?” “Like a hat misses a feather, darling! The droney poos and I have been bereft, quite bereft I tell you!” Rumpet, fetch Prudence for his lordship, would you? She’s sleeping in the back parlor. “I am here to reclaim my dearest little daughter.”

He was wearing pea green and salmon this evening, a pleasant swirl of spring colors to counteract the gray weather they’d been experiencing of late. Lord Akeldama sat waiting for her in the front parlor, one silken leg crossed over the other, blue eyes bright and slightly accusatory. There is Channing to consider, if nothing else.” If you will excuse me, husband, Biffy, I’m certain you have much to discuss. “Lady Maccon, there’s a gentleman to see you.” The butler had a certain curl to his lip that in Alexia’s experience could only mean one man.

Pickering and innkeeping, as it turned out, were not all he had hoped. He’d set up as an innkeeper in Pickering after the vampires took over Woolsey but jumped at the chance to return to his old position. Rumpet had been brought out of retirement to take over for Floote as pack butler. “Good to know where I stand from the start.” Conall grinned amiably at the boy. “Well, young Biffy, I suspect with you as my Beta, I’ll never again be allowed out without a cravat.”īiffy was aghast. “He was always verra good at elegant solutions,” said Lord Maccon softly. “It is an elegant solution,” she said at last.

“Ah, so,” said Alexia, looking back and forth between the two gentlemen, their eyes down-turned.

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