Four:
I stopped by the FBI field office in New Orleans. Aurelia was out in the field, so I missed her. Her co-workers seemed surprised to see she had a guest. That told me she was usually as lonesome as she appeared.
With too much free time to kill. I decided to do something exceptionally stupid. I drove to Alexia’s court home. I knew that she was there. The guards at the gate looked at me with deep suspicion.
“Should you even be here?”
The scrawny youthful vampyr boy asked. I grinned wickedly at him as the sun set behind me. I felt my eyes flash red in my annoyance.
“Ye forgot the ‘My Lady’ at the end of that question. I am still a noblewoman. My pedigree is not in question. Nor is my friendship to my daughter’s court.”
I corrected him, and he seemed to look around as if unsure w
