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they didn’t do that work because the pay was so great. There wasn’t a librarian on the planet who was in it for the money. It was strictly out of love for books. So when you hurt the books . . . I shivered. It was one time, I’d been fifteen and had dog-eared a dozen pages (all the sex scenes in
The Flame and the Flower
), and the resulting lecture haunted my nightmares for years.
    â€œDarling, you’re not a Wiccan.”
    â€œAgain: duh. Why are you telling me things I already know? I just liked the looks of the book and wanted to do some research. You remember when I banished the devil from Hell?”
    â€œExquisitely.” The dark throb of his voice hit me nice and low; if we hadn’t just finished, we’d be going again. After I’d given Satan the boot, Sinclair and I had come back to themansion and he’d taken me on all fours in front of the full-length mirror. It had been . . . memorable.
    â€œWell, I get the feeling that kind of thing might come in handy. So I wanted to study up. And don’t give me that look. You know I can do research when I have to.”
    â€œI know you
enjoy
research. It’s one of your more charming secrets. You are the only woman I’ve ever known who takes offense when people assume she’s intelligent.”
    â€œI don’t like raising expectations,” I muttered. And I didn’t like this conversation, either. I took the book away from him and put it back on the nightstand.
    â€œYou like taking people by surprise,” he added. His hands skimmed over my buttocks, and then he rolled on his back and pulled me on top of him. I braced my palms on his chest so I could look down at him. “God knows that’s all you’ve done to me since the moment we met.”
    â€œYou love it,” I accused.
    â€œI
adore
it. And you.”
    Well. When you put it that way . . .
    â€œRound two?” I ran my palms over his nipples, feeling them harden.
    â€œAnd then three. And four.”
    â€œOh, that’s a bluff I’ll call,” I teased.
    (It wasn’t a bluff.)

CHAPTER
    SIX
    â€œWow, it’s great to be back in Hell.” Then I heard myself. This was what my life had become—the media was so obnoxious, the fallout from the interview was so chaotic, the vampires were getting so demanding, that running Hell was more a respite than anything else.
    â€œThat bad, huh?” For a wonder, Cathie seemed genuinely sympathetic.
    â€œWhat the hell were you thinking?” my dead stepmother exclaimed. “How could you not see the potential fallout here?”
    Of course, not everyone was sympathetic. Several thought I was in a mess of my own making. Which was true. However, if I may indulge in a bit of childish behavior, stupid Laura
started
it, so
nyah-nyah-nyah
.
    â€œApparently I’ve not only exposed every vampire on earth but they’re all now vulnerable to the human legal system, which is so weird since that wasn’t my intent at all.” Or was it? Could I get away with the “I totally meant to do that” argument? “And there might be a vampire election.”
    â€œJust tell the vampires to STFU since you’re not just their queen; you’re also the devil. That ought to fix them.
And
the election.”
    â€œYeah, I’ve been trying to get away from that whole absolute-dictator off-with-your-head-if-you-don’t-like-it thing since the day I woke up dead.”
    â€œWhy?” Cathie asked and, ye gods, she was serious.
    I had to laugh a little. “What, why? Why d’you think? My entire platform—not that I ran for office, and not that I
will
run for office—is that vampires are no different from anyone else, and definitely not above the law. They don’t get to get away with bad shit because once upon a time they got chomped to death.”
    â€œWell, too bad, because if you
had
run for office, I’d