Revelations by Cruz Melissa de La

Author:Cruz, Melissa de La [Cruz, Melissa de La]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781423102281
Amazon: 1423102282
Goodreads: 2753843
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Published: 2008-10-31T07:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

Hiring Lizbet Tilton was the best decision she could have made, Mimi thought, congratulating herself on her savvy. Lizbet ran a very tight ship, and in short order the venues were locked in on the requested dates, contracts drafted, budgets balanced, deposits made. Earlier that afternoon Trinity and Mimi had gone over color schemes and menus with the caterer and the interior designer. Everything was operating like clockwork; although you’d think it was the doomsday clock, the way Jack was acting. “Do you know what this is about?” he asked, meeting Mimi in Trinity’s sitting room the next evening. Their “mother”—Mimi always thought of the word in air quotes, since Trinity was as much her mother as Jack was her brother—had requested their presence before dinner. She had intimated that she wanted to talk to them about something important concerning their bonding.

“I have a feeling.” Mimi smiled. She ruffled Jack’s hair, and in return he put a hand on her waist and drew her close to him. They had always been affectionate, and even though she was aware of his continuing duplicity, she could not harden her heart against him. Jack hadn’t agreed to bonding so early in the cycle, but on the other hand, he hadn’t done anything to stop it either.

Perhaps the dalliance with Schuyler was simply that. Jack was just using her as an amusement. A side dish. Mimi certainly understood. She had found a tasty new familiar, and had been so voracious in her appetite she had almost killed the boy the other day. He would be all right; nothing that rest and a week away from a certain blond vampire couldn’t cure.

Mimi looked around with approval. Trinity’s home office was famous among her set for being the most lavish and impeccable. Hung on the velvet walls were life-size portraits of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century aristocrats by Vigée-LeBrun and Winterhalter. There was an Erard piano in the corner—the very same one Chopin used to compose his études. The bonheurs du jour, a small, elegant writing table where Trinity wrote her one-word thank you cards (“Bravo!” was her usual exhortation after attending a friend’s dinner party) was originally commissioned for the Grand Trianon.

Mimi decided that when she came into her massive inheritance, and she and Jack bought their own place at 740 Park, she would hire the same decorator.

A few minutes later, Trinity entered the room holding two long ebony boxes embossed with gold filigree. Mimi’s senses shifted, her memories racing, and she suddenly knew why they were there. “But where’s Charles?” she cried. “We can’t do this without him, can we?”

“I tried, my dear. But he won’t leave his study. He’s just . . .” Trinity shook her shoulders ever so slightly. Mimi understood that her mother adhered to a rigid code of etiquette. As distressed as she might be about her husband’s condition, she would never admit to it or show any outward display of exasperation. She was a woman who was fundamentally unequipped to make a scene.

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