Harper Allen Darkheart & Crosse 3 Dead Is The New Black

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you time to adjust to the realization that you were the one Zena marked when
we were babies.
Of all the ingratitude! I sputtered. You re on my case because I left home
before I I stopped abruptly and Megan s gaze narrowed.
Before you what?
Before I killed you and Kat,I told her silently.Before I slaughtered
Darkheart and Mikhail and Jack.Before the hunger became stronger than I could
handle, the way it almost did tonight . Once upon a time I would have blurted
out the truth to her, I thought, taking in the firm line of her mouth, the
hard steadiness that hadn t been in her gaze before she d become a Daughter.
But now I couldn t know for sure if she d react to my confession as a
sister& or as the sworn enemy of me and my kind.
Before I went out of my mind with boredom, I said with a shrug. I mean,
things around here are getting so same old, same old. First Zena shows up in
Maplesburg and you stake her, then Kane shows up and Kat Heals him and by the
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way, Kat, I added in an aside, Cyrus fleeing to the ends of the earth all
tortured with guilt over his evil past and dying in a Buddhist monastery isn t
the most reassuring demonstration of the benefits of a Heal. No wonder you
don t have vamps lining up to take advantage of the oh-so-special gift you
inherited from Daddy Dearest.
Firstly, Kane didn t die from being Healed, he was murdered, Kat said
sharply. And the vamp that infiltrated the monastery and killed him was the
same one he tried to warn us about in the letter the monks forwarded to us
after his death Lady Jasmine Melrose, the bitch who turned him centuries ago
right here in Maplesburg. Secondly, what s with the Daddy Dearest merde?
Finding out that there s a possibility our father didn t die twenty years ago
when Zena targeted Angelica should have made you as happy as it did Megan and
me, but ever since we read that postscript to Kane s letter
David Crosse lives , I quoted impatiently. And it wasn t
Kane spostscript, it was tacked onto the end of his letter by Jasmine, along
with her heads-up to us about how she s coming to Maplesburg. But she hasn t
shown up here, has she? And if her news-flash about Daddy Dearest was true,
why hasn t he contacted us in all these years?
That s whatGospodin Darkheart has requested me to find out. My family s
business contacts in formerSovietSocialistRepublic have spent past week
questioning peasants in mountainous Carpathian region in attempt to learn what
happened to David Crosse after night when Zena left him for dead. Trail is
understandably cold after so long and so far is few results, but still is hope
we will learn something.
The unfamiliar voice came from behind me, and I turned in quick alarm to see
a man standing in the open doorway of my apartment. Under other circumstances
I might have let my gaze linger on him, but right now well, okay, maybe I did
let my gaze linger. Not for long, but enough to make a snap assessment of the
man s attributes, which included about six foot five inches of tanned,
hard-muscled male dressed in jeans and a black T-shirt, close-cropped hair
even paler than Kat s platinum shade and icy blue eyes that ignored everyone
else in the room and remained fixed on me. He looked to be around twenty-eight
or twenty-nine, and from his accent it wasn t hard to guess he was one of the
Russians living inNew York that Mikhail had called on during our final battle
against Cyrus Kane and his vamp army.
All of which didn t explain what he was doing in my apartment and why he
seemed to be more in the loop than I was when it came to my family s private
business.
One of Grammie s most cherished dictums is that one should always be polite
and considerate to guests. Grammie d never had a massive blond know-it-all
Russian dropped on her from out of the blue, I thought wrathfully as I turned
on Megan and Kat. Who s he? I demanded, jerking my thumb at the Russian.
And what does hemean, his family s been looking into David Crosse s
whereabouts? Is Darkheart & Crosse running investigations I don t know about
now?
Name is Dmitri Malkovich, the blond giant said before my sisters could
answer. Search forGospodin Crosse is not official agency business. Is
undertaken by my family in attempt to repay your grandfather for great service
he has done us in old country when he saved my sister Anya fromvampyr attack.
Cousins in Mother Russia aremafya, have many contacts and ways to find out
things. He frowned. How is saidmafya inAmerica ?
Mafia, Megan said briefly. And it s probably wiser to tell people they re
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