Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine

Author:Rachel Caine [Caine, Rachel]
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ISBN: 9780451225726
Publisher: Lisa's E-Book Collection
Published: 2009-01-06T05:00:00+00:00

The next day, there was no sign of the vampires, none at all. Claire checked the portal networks, but as

far as she could tell, they were down. With nothing concrete to do, she helped around the

house—cleaning, straightening, running errands. Richard Morrell came around to check on them. He

looked a little better for having slept, which didn't mean he looked good, exactly.

When Eve wandered down, she looked almost as bad. She hadn't bothered with her Goth makeup, and

her black hair was down in a lank, uncombed mess. She poured Richard some coffee from the

ever-brewing pot. handed it over, and said. "How's Michael?"

Richard blew on the hot surface in the cup without looking at her. "He's at City Hall. We moved all the

vampires we still had into the jail, for safekeeping."

Eve's face crumpled in anguish. Shane put a hand on her shoulder, and she pulled in a damp breath and

got control of herself.

"Right," she said. "That's probably for the best, you're right." She sipped from her own battered coffee

mug. "What's it like out there?" Out there meant beyond Lot Street, which remained eerily quiet.

"Not so good." Richard said. His voice sounded hoarse and dull, as if he'd yelled all

the edges off it. "About half the stores are shut down, and some of those are burned or looted. We don't

have enough police and volunteers to be everywhere. Some of the store owners armed up and are

guarding their own places—I don't like it, but it's probably the best option until everybody settles down

and sobers up. The problem isn't everybody, but it's a good portion of the town who's been down and

angry a long time. You heard they raided the Barfly?"

"Yeah, we heard," Shane said.

"Well, that was just the beginning. Dolores Thompson's place got broken into, and then they went to the

warehouses and found the bonded liquor storage. Those who were inclined to deal with all this by getting

drunk and mean have had a real holiday."

"We saw the mobs," Eve said, and glanced at Claire. "Urn, about your sister—"

"Yeah, thanks for taking care of her. Trust my idiot sister to go running around in her red convertible

during a riot. She's damn lucky they didn't kill her."

They would have. Claire was certain of that. "I guess you're taking her with you . . .

younger than Claire had ever seen her. "She's been okay." She shrugged. "But I'll bet she'd rather be with

her family."

"Her family's under protective custody downtown. My dad nearly got dragged off by a bunch of yahoos

yelling about taxes or something. My mom—" Richard shook his head, as if he wanted to drive the

pictures right out of his mind. "Anyway. Unless she likes four walls and a locked door, I don't think she's

going to be very happy. And you know Monica: if she's not happy—"

"Nobody is," Shane finished for him. "Well. I want her out of our house. Sony. man. but we did our duty

and all. Past this point, she'd have to be a friend to keep crashing here. Which, you know, she isn't.

Ever."

"Then I'll take her off your hands.

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