Chapter 144
Chapter 144
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Slightly mollified. Chloe allowed Fran to guide her over to a table of drinks and hors d’oeuvres laid out for human attendees. The conversations with younger vampires and their human bloodinates, after the usual small talk introductions, tended to revolve around the recently deceased Alex Markov and his now sireless thralls running around the city, Chloe hadn’t been aware, but was unsurprised to find out, that Amos had rounded up the most thralls of anybody.
“He’s good like that,” she found herself saying with unabashed pride. “He doesn’t do things halfway. ”
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Chloe didn’t know whether she should be laughing along or marking her territory. Fran intervened before she landed on a decision, dragging her off to meet some other people.
“I thought vampires didn’t get horny without live blood,” Chloe whispered irritably.
“Oh, no, the desire is still there,” Fran explained. “But the, er, ability is lacking p>
Chloe’s eyes widened as she gained a new appreciation for the length of Amos’s celibacy and his astonishing willpower at keeping their intimacies from escalating into sex. Except for that one notable slip–up, he’d managed to keep things mostly PG–13 between them, despite Chloe regularly throwing herself at him like a drunken sailor on shore leave.
“Huh,” she said, mostly to herself.
Throughout the course of the night, Chloe met an endless swirl of names and faces that she had no hope of remembering, except for the most outlandish ones–who generally happened to be the old ones. They were often dressed in an odd assortment of period garb. One vampire looked as if she’d stepped straight out of the Sun King’s court. Another looked as if he’d just come from embalming Tutankhamun. Yet another seemed dressed to resume guard duties on the Great Wall of China, including the sword. Most of the old ones, however, wore a mishmash of time periods, including one notable vampire who was wearing a snowy white chiton with gold shoulder clasps over a modern turtleneck sweater along with knee–high black Hessians and a jauntily–tipped derby hat.
The clothing was the least of their oddness, though. It was conversations with them that really tested Chloe’s commitment to making a good impression.
There was a twelve–hundred–year–old vampire who looked all of eighteen, who told Chloe she should forget about Amos and find a vampire who’d be willing to turn her. A two–thousand–year–old vampire asked her if it was true that humans nowadays had computers implanted directly into their brains. When Chloe had answered that, except for a few medical exceptions, no, they did not, the vampire insisted sneeringly that she was wrong. Another two–thousand–year–old vampire, who must have been in his sixties when he’d been turned, kept licking his lips as he stared at Chloe’s throat. Amos’s growl was audible across the chamber, and the older vampire quickly turned away, abandoning Chloe
mid–sentence.
Then there was a nine–hundred–year–old vampire who pretended not to speak English, even though Chloe had heard him speaking English to another vampire not two minutes before. Instead, he spoke to her in dismissive Andalusian–inflected Spanish, which always sounded lispy to Chloe’s ear, telling her “I do not converse in your ugly language.” When she’d responded back in her third–generation Mexican–American Spanish, “Then we can converse in yours,” he’d only curled his lip and turned his back on her.
“Un placer hablar contigo!” she called snidely after him.
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Amos shot a dark look over his shoulder, and the shusher fell immediately silent.
My software developer homebody vampire boyfriend is kind of a badass, Chloe thought, pressing her lips together to suppress a smug grin.
On the back wall, narrow stone stairs led up to a long, elevated, pulpit like platform lined with elaborately carved wooden seats that looked a great deal like thrones. There were at least twenty vampires, dressed in deeply red robes, ascending the stairs to seat themselves over the crowd. Below them, the floor space remained open, in a large circle, while the crowd naturally parted itself to form an open aisle towards the Councilors.
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