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bank account.”
“ Truly?”
“ Yes. Most of it is from music royalties from Gabrielle, and investments by Lucas. We can do pretty much anything. We can hire vampires to be vampire hunters and bring their families. We can feed the hungry, heal the sick, find the missing. Hell, we can build a few McMansions if we want.”
“ You’re being silly now.”
“ Yes, I am. My point is, we can buy resources and hire good people for the greater good of our mission, which is to rid the world of evil vampires.”
“ You really propose to bring a family of five to live here? With a vampire husband, a non-vampire wife and three small children? And let us not forget, there is a pack of wolves right outside. And a resident werewolf. The better to eat you, my dear.”
“ Ambra, Corbin is not a threat. He’s so devastated that he lost your trust, I don’t think he’ll ever cross that line again, with anyone. In fact, I would bet my life on it.”
“ You really trust him after what happened?”
“ I have to. He helped save my life from Delilah, but more than that, he’s a part of this place that’s irreplaceable. We need him. The good certainly outweighs the bad. The man…the werewolf… He had about a ten-second lapse in decision-making skills. After talking to him at length, I think he is seriously underappreciated. And we’ve made him the butt of a lot of canine jokes, well, at least I have.”
“ His allure escapes me at the moment since I am still very angry,” Ambra said. She took a deep breath and let it out. “I do like Lucian.”
“ I like him, too. Despite being a vampire, he has integrity.”
“ We do need him, but if he betrays us—”
“ He won’t. I can’t think of a better way to fill the void of Lucas as a vampire hunter and Daphne as chef than to ask Lucian and Uta to join us. You don’t want to cook for this group, do you?”
“ Ambra does not cook,” she said, talking about herself in the third person to let me know she was serious. “And why does the cook have to be a woman?”
“ We could ask Corbin to do it, but I’ve never seen a vegetable cross his lips. He’s carnivorous. We can’t eat like that. And I sure as hell have never made anything but breakfast in my life. And not very well, either.”
Ambra nodded. “We do need a chef. Out here in this remote castle, it’s not like we can just pile into the troop vehicle and go out for hamburgers and pommes frites . And because of what we do here, we can’t just hire someone off the street to cook for us. There would be questions about why we are all armed to the teeth and sleep during the day and stay up all night.”
“ Exactly.”
She pressed her lips together in thought. “The security systems of the entire castle and grounds would have to be revealed to Lucian, otherwise, he could get killed by our door and window security.”
I added, “And he should never, ever enter the vampire trap. Not for any reason, so we would have to tell him everything.”
“ We have to tell Uta, too, and find a way to secure certain parts of the castle from the children.”
“ If they mostly stay in Lucas’s old suite, they’re safe up there. It even has its own security system. We’ll buy a lot of kids’ toys and games and books. It’s big up there. They can even ride tricycles or Razor scooters.”
“ All right, Rand. Let’s go to Romania and see if we can recruit Lucian, the vampire who helped us kill Vlad Tepes at Raven Citadel. If he helped us kill one vampire, maybe he’ll be willing to help us do it for others. For a price.”
“ Yes!” I said, and high-fived her. “Thank you for your support.”
“ You’re setting a precedent. This will be the first time that the Brotherhood of the Blade attempts to hire a vampire to work as a vampire hunter,” she said.
“ We had a good experience with Samantha Moon in testing the vampire trap and providing intelligence work and internet surveillance, so I think my idea to
“ Truly?”
“ Yes. Most of it is from music royalties from Gabrielle, and investments by Lucas. We can do pretty much anything. We can hire vampires to be vampire hunters and bring their families. We can feed the hungry, heal the sick, find the missing. Hell, we can build a few McMansions if we want.”
“ You’re being silly now.”
“ Yes, I am. My point is, we can buy resources and hire good people for the greater good of our mission, which is to rid the world of evil vampires.”
“ You really propose to bring a family of five to live here? With a vampire husband, a non-vampire wife and three small children? And let us not forget, there is a pack of wolves right outside. And a resident werewolf. The better to eat you, my dear.”
“ Ambra, Corbin is not a threat. He’s so devastated that he lost your trust, I don’t think he’ll ever cross that line again, with anyone. In fact, I would bet my life on it.”
“ You really trust him after what happened?”
“ I have to. He helped save my life from Delilah, but more than that, he’s a part of this place that’s irreplaceable. We need him. The good certainly outweighs the bad. The man…the werewolf… He had about a ten-second lapse in decision-making skills. After talking to him at length, I think he is seriously underappreciated. And we’ve made him the butt of a lot of canine jokes, well, at least I have.”
“ His allure escapes me at the moment since I am still very angry,” Ambra said. She took a deep breath and let it out. “I do like Lucian.”
“ I like him, too. Despite being a vampire, he has integrity.”
“ We do need him, but if he betrays us—”
“ He won’t. I can’t think of a better way to fill the void of Lucas as a vampire hunter and Daphne as chef than to ask Lucian and Uta to join us. You don’t want to cook for this group, do you?”
“ Ambra does not cook,” she said, talking about herself in the third person to let me know she was serious. “And why does the cook have to be a woman?”
“ We could ask Corbin to do it, but I’ve never seen a vegetable cross his lips. He’s carnivorous. We can’t eat like that. And I sure as hell have never made anything but breakfast in my life. And not very well, either.”
Ambra nodded. “We do need a chef. Out here in this remote castle, it’s not like we can just pile into the troop vehicle and go out for hamburgers and pommes frites . And because of what we do here, we can’t just hire someone off the street to cook for us. There would be questions about why we are all armed to the teeth and sleep during the day and stay up all night.”
“ Exactly.”
She pressed her lips together in thought. “The security systems of the entire castle and grounds would have to be revealed to Lucian, otherwise, he could get killed by our door and window security.”
I added, “And he should never, ever enter the vampire trap. Not for any reason, so we would have to tell him everything.”
“ We have to tell Uta, too, and find a way to secure certain parts of the castle from the children.”
“ If they mostly stay in Lucas’s old suite, they’re safe up there. It even has its own security system. We’ll buy a lot of kids’ toys and games and books. It’s big up there. They can even ride tricycles or Razor scooters.”
“ All right, Rand. Let’s go to Romania and see if we can recruit Lucian, the vampire who helped us kill Vlad Tepes at Raven Citadel. If he helped us kill one vampire, maybe he’ll be willing to help us do it for others. For a price.”
“ Yes!” I said, and high-fived her. “Thank you for your support.”
“ You’re setting a precedent. This will be the first time that the Brotherhood of the Blade attempts to hire a vampire to work as a vampire hunter,” she said.
“ We had a good experience with Samantha Moon in testing the vampire trap and providing intelligence work and internet surveillance, so I think my idea to
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