Chapter Sixteen
“I’d just like to know,” I said in an undertone to Ellis while we were on the outskirts of Rome, riding to Villa Luna, “why Merrick felt it was OK to lie to me about the portals.”
“Oooh, he lied? Interesting,” Ellis said, eyeing me, his voice also lowered so that the taxi driver wouldn’t hear us. “Do we think the honeymoon is over already? Has the bloom gone off the rose so quickly? Is it your blue coochie that drove him away?”
I poked him with an elbow. “No to all of those, and there’s nothing blue down there anymore, as you well know since you helped me pick off all the lint.”
“What did Vamp Boy lie about, then?”
I patted Kelso, who had his nose out of the window and was snuffling like crazy. “He said portals wouldn’t take animals, and the shop we went to said that o
