“What’s low is your opinion of me, if you think anything you say could change what I think of you.”
“And what is it that you think of me?”
“Right now? That if you’re this big an arse to your magician friends, I can see why they’re wanting to off you in your sleep.”
Well, fine. “They want to off me in my sleep because I’m a vampire.”
McInnis struggled to his feet, wobbling slightly on his wooden leg. “Look, not telling me is one thing, but I won’t be mocked. Not even by you, sir.”
Daniel waited patiently while his friend stomped a few steps away in the direction of his house, paused, then turned back slowly, craggy face deeply furrowed.
“You’re serious, sir?”
“Deadly serious. Incidentally, they are wizards, not magicians.”
“I thought the vampire was supposed to be the villain.”
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