I've always been hot tempered. It was so hard not to lunge across the table at Erica, my body trembling with the effort. My vampire held me still while Shaylee whispered a dig I could offer instead.
I grinned, tight and furious. "That's okay, Erica," I said. "You have your little moment of victory. While my family found a place where we can be safe and not be harvested by the Brotherhood for our power." Maybe it was stupid to tell her, but it wasn't like she or Belaisle could do anything about it. And I needed a scrap of success or I'd go mad. Her eyes narrowed, face tense as I laughed at her growing understanding and frustration. "That's right," I said, grinding in it. "He may have rejected you and your Enforcers, kicked out the Brotherhood because of their evil. But right now, at this m
