Read Bitter Blood (The Morganville Vampires #13)(15) online free by Rachel Caine
Author: Rachel Caine
Eve, on the other hand, seemed to ignore Miranda altogether; her gaze focused wholly on Michael's face. Her dark eyes were huge, and she'd gripped his left hand tightly with her right.
"I'm okay," he said, not to Miranda, but to Eve, and brought her hand to his lips to kiss it. "Claire might have been exaggerating a little."
"Not much," Claire muttered, but she ate a bite of taco and didn't object any louder.
"She's right, though," Michael continued. "Definitely, there's something wrong with Amelie and how she's handling things. It's not the Founder we've known; this is more the way Bishop acted. Maybe it's something to do with her near miss with the draug."
"Or maybe it's just that Oliver's in her pocket allthe time," Shane said. "I'm saying pocket because there's a deceased minor present, but by pocket I mean pants."
Claire smacked him under the table on the side of the leg, hard, but she didn't disagree with the substance-just the presentation. "Oliver's a bad boyfriend," she agreed. "And she's listening to him way too much. That's why he's getting rid of Hannah; he doesn't want any disagreements on the Elders' Council. He just wants some rubber-stamping human body sitting at the table, to keep people in line by pretending they still have a voice."
"Can we go back to the issue of Michael nearly being kil ed?" Eve said. "Because I'm really not okay with that. What happened?"
"I didn't agree...
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