) THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON 199 Valerie was gone, as I said. His face, when he said it, was a strange mix of terror at the sight of Chris andjoy at the last scintilla of memory of what he had seen. She was also a member of the Council of Vampires that had a home base somewhere in Europe. The last time I'd seen her she'd had her arm damn near shot off.
I brought them here tonight so they'd be under my protection, safe. Jean-Claude's fingers closed around mine, and my heart stayed calm. You're left with just Jean-Claude, and Nathaniel, but Nathaniel isn't enough of a romantic threat to keep Jean-Claude at bay, and suddenly there's Micah. He went at the guy, wrested the poker from him, and jabbed sharplywith the piketip of it.
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