“Where is Alice?” Maria wondered out loud, voicing out her concerns and probably everyone else’s too. “I thought she would be here to see you off.”
“She won’t be,” Harry announced bleakly.
“Why is that?”
“I persuaded her into thinking I had cheated on her on our trip. She’ll be leaving first thing tomorrow morning,” he shrugged his shoulders in a nonchalant manner.
“You did what?” His sister exclaimed, looking shell-shocked. “Why would you do that?”
Harry could feel the blame in Blake’s eyes though. He must have heard them going at it like rabbits until the first rays of the morning. He knew his sister to be a heavy sleeper for a vampire. But Blake most definitely was not. Besides, the man rarely truly slept. He mostly pretended to be asleep.
He forced himself to face Blake wi
