CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
“You’re one cool cucumber,” Kit says when I open my eyes. “I don’t know if I’d be able to sleep under such circumstances.”
“I wasn’t sleeping, per se.” I sit up. “How screwed am I?”
She perches on the edge of the bed and puts down the stack of papers she’s holding. “The good news is they won’t kill you outright. I had to use all my oratory skills to pull that off, but Kain helped.”
“He did?” I move from the bed into a chair opposite her. That doesn’t sound like the vampire I know.
She turns into Kain. “He’s not as bad as he seems. He’s just in a shitty position. Since he’s the head of the Enforcers, everyone blames him for not preventing the murders. Clearly, he’s decided to shift some of that pressure onto you.”
As I thought. “Makes me feel so much better. What a
