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"Yeah, I know, but I kind of like this."
"What?"
"This." She waved her ghostly hands through my head. I shuddered, and the car swerved. "How cheated
was I? Repeat after me: promising life cut short."
"Yeah, but& " I paused delicately. "You're dead. It's time to move on."
"Look who's talking. Besides, I helped you, right? I could get into the house when you guys were
standing out on the lawn like jerks. I think I could be pretty good at this. Anyway, I think I'll hang
around."
"Oh, Christ on crackers."
"What?"
"Good to have you aboard!" I said with fake heartiness.
"She's still here?" Laura asked. "That's odd."
"Don't try to change the subject! You murdered that guy. He was just standing there, and you killed
him!"
"Killed him dead," Cathie agreed. "Like a big blond roach motel. She's a freak, but I'm totally in love
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with your sister right now."
"You stay out of this."
"If you think about it, the whole thing is kind of my fault," Cathie confessed.
"Never mind! Laura, what were you thinking?"
"That I was very very very very angry? And it upset me to know he would be walking around breathing
the same air as my folks?"
Points for honesty, at least. "Laura, it's like this. I don't know if you're having a bad month, or if certain
prophecies are coming to light, or what, but I gotta admit, I'm concerned. Okay? I mean, I'm a vampire
and I'm not going around okay, I am, but that's a totally different thing."
"I know it was wrong," Laura said, looking at me with guileless blue eyes, "but you have to admit, it will
be difficult for him to take off his belt and strangle any more women after today. Won't it?" She almost
smiled, and was that a flash of green I saw in her eyes?
I decided it was my imagination.
Before I could take the issue further not that I had the slightest idea what to say, not exactly having the
moral high ground the blue Mustang behind me flashed its high beams twice. Then it snuggled right up
on my bumper, and my cell phone vibrated.
"Do they give dead people speeding tickets?" Cathie asked.
"That's no cop, that's my fiancé." I hummed the first few lines of "My Boyfriend's Back" and then
answered the phone.
Chapter 39
"Eric, it was just an ordinary guy this time! It's not like I got tricked by vampires or got stuck in the
middle of another coup."
He put his hands behind his back. I knew why; it was so he wouldn't choke me. "What is this aversion
you have to waiting for my assistance?"
"It's not aversion. You're just never around when I need you. Hum. Okay, that sounded nicer in my
head. Hey, I did call you. It's not my fault you didn't answer your cell."
"I was available twenty seconds later! You were physically unable to wait less than half a minute?"
"Well, I kind of wish we had, because the thing is& " I burst into tears.
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"Oh, Elizabeth, don't do that." He snuggled me into his arms. "Was I shouting? I won't apologize for
worrying, but I will clarify: I was concerned, not angry."
"It's not that. Laura she killed the bad guy."
"And that's& er, bad?"
"It's how she did it. He didn't even attack us or anything. He was just standing there. And there were all
these piles of wood in the basement, because he has had a wood-burning stove, and she leaned over
and picked up a big old chunk of wood, and justbeaned him with it! And I heard the crack I heard his
head break!" I shuddered. "And brains did you know brains are pink and red? Don't answer that," I
ordered tearfully. "And all thisstuff came out. And he was just& dead. And she didn't even care! Just
said later that she lost her temper."
"That& is cause for concern," he said after a moment's thought. "I must admit, I have& dispatched&
my share of societal burdens in my day. But Laura seems to be "
"Going over to the dark side."
"Or something," he agreed. "But it could be argued that she saved lives."
"Definitely it could be argued. I guess Driveway Jerk had this thing for short-haired blondes because
when he was a teen, this girl named never mind, it's creepy and stupid at the same time. And he was
just driving around, looking for the right type to be in the right spot at the right time! Tell me howthat can
be allowed to happen in a sane world. You could be putting your groceries away ten minutes later and
not be killed."
"But you and Laura are in a sane world," he suggested. "Righting wrongs."
"I really don't think this is the tactic we should use when talking to her about this, okay?" I pulled away
so I could look into his eyes. "And see this? How I came right home and told you everything and we're
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