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Rated R for violence
I had to sit down and do a timeline of my story, so I am posting it for you:
(the parentheses are silvanelf's comments)
Evening 1: Mick goes to Josef for blood, (someone's hungry) they head to the club. (two sexy vamps, hitting the town. Oh yeah…) They meet Beth at club. ("hello." "hello.") Adriana saves Beth. (whew) Josef and Adriana have sex. (WOOT WOOT!) Mick and Beth investigate back rooms and then go to the Agency's headquarters. (oooo, a mystery!) Mick and Beth get back and make out in back room, (niiiiiiice) they declare their feelings for each other. (awwww, sniffle, sniffle) Mick and Beth split, (dangit!) but both end up back at Josef's. (okay, they're still together. Good!)
Dawn 1: Adriana keeps Mick and Beth company. (waffles anyone?) Josef wakes up, he's mortal. (dun, dun, dunnn… )
Day 1: Beth and Josef spend day in doctor office and courthouse getting married. (Dr. Simon Tam! I got the reference! Browncoats unite! Wait, did you say married!?) They come home to tell Mick and Adriana before she leaves for evening at the club. (hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work I go…) Mick and Beth have sex. (omg thud) Mick accepts being a vampire. (bout time!)
Night 2: Adriana leaves the club; elevator crashes. (cue thunder and lightning please.) Mick, Beth and Josef all go to the club. (apparently the club is a hot spot) Beth goes off to infiltrate Agency. (The name is Turner, Beth Turner. 007 theme plays in background) Mick, Beth and Adriana go back to Josef's. Beth is hired, kidnapped and almost murdered. (rough night! Sheesh…) Mick and Josef come to her aid. (super vamp and human sidekick to the rescue!) Josef is shot. (ouch!) Beth heals Josef (yay!) they clean up the crime scene and head back to town. (for more sex right? Riiiiight?!)
Dawn 2: Mick and Beth have 'Thank God we're alive sex.' (hooray for hot 'Thank God we're alive sex'!) Beth wants to be turned. (bout time!) Adriana cleans Josef up. (awwwww, sniffle, sniffle. No really, it was very sweet.)
Day 2: Beth and Josef have blood work done. (I hate needles.)
Night 3: Beth goes to Mick's where they go out to lunch/dinner and come back and have sex (referred to). (referred to?! REFERRED TO?! waaaaa) Josef goes back to Adriana and tries chocolate and they have sex. (okay, I forgive you for the 'referred to' sex for this scene. Omg, I'll never eat a piece of chocolate the same way again.) Josef's a vampire again. (Go Josef, it's your birthday…)
Day 3: Beth and Mick got pick up blood work and go to Dr. Shepherd's. (this couldn't be another reference now could it? wink) Then they head to Josef's… (and? And?! Oh wait, we've caught up. Well, onto the story then! Forward, Mush! Mush readers! lol.) (thank you NeteleJala, for indulging my sugar high…silvanelf)
SEE, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE HER SUGAR!!!!!!!!!!
A Wookie
Josef awoke in his freezer. It's so good to be back to normal, he thought, while drifting in and out of sleep. He had had to leave Adriana in bed for some much needed cool down time in his freezer.
Josef pushed his freezer door open and sat up. He felt a hundred times better. His vamp senses had returned and he could hear Adriana's methodic breathing from the other room. Good. She's still asleep. After last night, she could use some rest and I don't want her worrying about me.
Josef stood up and pulled on a pair of PJ bottoms. I should really go clean up the mess downstairs… He smiled thinking about the evening before; chocolate, sex and blood… It had been a good night.
Josef heard the front door open. Mick…Beth He smelled his friend and his soon to be ex-wife and smiled, I can have fun with this… a million way of telling them the news rushed through his mind.
Mick and Beth had left straight from Dr. Shepherd's office to Josef's. They had a lot to talk with him about. Beth sensed there was something wrong as she entered the house. Having lived in the house the last few days she was distinctly aware of a difference that permeated the house. She couldn't put her finger on it, but something just seemed out of place.
Mick could smell it. Oh, Josef… I didn't need to see that! Mick growled, under his breath, as visions from the previous evening inundated his mind.
"What did you say?" Beth asked as they walked into the kitchen.
"Nothing, I just-" Mick stopped dead upon entering the kitchen. Beth looked around the room and finally understood. Chocolate was smeared all over the counter and there were assortments of clothes strewn around the room. Some candles stubs littered the living room and there were chocolate stains on the couch.
"Oh," Beth gasped, taking in the sight. She blushed a little remembering she was the one who had suggested chocolates to Adriana. Mick rounded the island in the kitchen and jerked his head away, trying to stop the vision Adriana's discarded panties were recalling.
Mick groaned. He couldn't stop a vision with that much power and passion behind it, but he didn't think it particularly nice to pry into his friend's affairs. There were just some things he didn't care to know about Josef.
Mick jerked his head up. What the?! But it couldn't be… Mick smelled Josef. The old Josef. The vampire Josef. It must be a lingering scent, he reasoned, It's his home after all.
Mick was completely taken by surprise as he was slammed against the living room wall. He heard Beth gasp and vamped out before he could register what happened.
"Watch it, buddy. No need to get physical." Josef growled. He had Mick pinned to the wall, a devilish grin covering his face.
Mick blinked and stared at his friend. Are those fangs? I must have hit my head harder that I thought?
"Josef!" Beth explained. "You have fangs! You're a vampire again?!"
Josef smiled and let go of Mick. "Why yes, Blondie. Thanks for noticing." He turned back to Mick, who had straighten his clothes and asked, "You have anything to say?"
"Welcome back," Mick said as he clapped Josef on the shoulder in an affectionate manner.
"But how…?" Beth asked.
"Beats me." Josef shrugged his shoulders. "But what matters is that I am a vamp again. I was getting worried there for awhile."
"You only spent two days as a human," Beth protested.
"Yeah and what an awful two days it was…" Josef trailed off, remembering an unwanted marriage and a gunshot wound to the chest.
"Yeah, guess Dr. Shepherd was right," Mick replied.
"Really? What did he say?" Josef asked.
"He assumed from your blood work that you were a failed turn. He said that you were 'lost in the transition' and that the only thing to do was to wait and see what happened. He also thought you would be unconscious," Mick recapped.
"Huh," Josef said. He wasn't sure what to make of that.
"The doctor said that the decay was extreme, like you were turned centuries ago," Beth added.
Josef smiled. "I was turned centuries ago, four to be precise. It's funny, when I vamped out last night, it felt completely normal. It wasn't like a new turn…It was like I had always been a vamp. Even now, I'm not suffering from the bloodlust of turning."
"I think you weren't fully human, but more like Adriana, a half-vamp. It's probably the reason you survived the gunshot wound. You had human traits, but your vamp ones were still there, just dormant. So when your heart stopped you would have reverted to being a vampire, but because Beth poured the vampire essence on you, you returned to being a healthy human. How are your powers?" Mick asked.
"As strong as ever. But do you mean that by saving me, Beth actually kept me in the mortal coil for longer?" Josef asked. "You know what, it doesn't really matter. Do you think I still have human traits?"
"There's only one way to find out." Everyone turned to look at Adriana. She had been standing in the kitchen entranceway, listening to their conversation.
The noise of me throwing Mick against the wall must have woke her up, Josef thought. He watched as Adriana picked up one of the forgotten chocolates and sauntered towards him. She held it to his mouth and said, "If you taste it, the human is lingering, if not… well, then, you're a full vamp again."
Josef took the chocolate into his mouth. Just as last night, the velvety smoothness spread down his throat. His body started to react to the memory. Great, now I will never be able to eat chocolate in public, he thought. He pulled Adriana closer to him, so as to hide his emerging erection.
"Mmmmmmmmmmmm," he sighed contently. "Yep, I can still taste it."
Adriana smiled. She felt his arousal pressed against her leg. "Well, you did feed from me last night, and when Mick did that he was able to taste food, so lets just assume you'll be back to normal soon."
Josef smiled at her and placed a lingering kiss on her lips. Beth looked away nervously, as their kiss deepened, not sure if she should leave or stay. Mick cleared his throat loudly to remind Josef and Adriana that they were not alone.
The two broke apart and Josef grinned at Mick, "Don't act so noble, I can smell Beth all over you."
Beth blushed a deep shade of red and Mick stood stunned and silent. "Well, next time, do us all a favor, and use the bedroom," Mick commented.
"Tried buddy," Josef smiled. "But this is my house after all." Mick didn't have a comeback. Adriana slapped Josef, playfully, for good measure.
"So what are we going to do about the Agency?" Beth asked, trying to change the topic.
"Josef, Adriana and I are going to their headquarters, and we're going to confront them," Mick said.
"You better believe that I'm coming too. There is no way you can make me stay here," Beth said.
Mick started to protest, but Josef cut in, "Blondie's right, Mick. We could use her knowledge of the Agency's headquarters and the safest place for her is with us."
There he goes, enabling her again, Mick thought, but he nodded. Beth would be safest if she was with him. "Alright," he consented. "So, what's the plan?"
"I don't like this plan," Mick stated. Everyone rolled their eyes at Mick's stubbornness. They had agreed to let Beth serve as bait, everyone except Mick, of course. "I'm serious. You guys didn't see her place. It was torn to shreds. I don't think the Agency wants her alive."
"Well, you could turn me," Beth suggested.
"Beth," Mick said in a warning tone.
"I know, I know…timing and all that, but it would keep me safe from any attack."
"Actually, Blondie, it wouldn't. New turns are like infants, rabid, blood-drinking infants, but infants nonetheless. Those goons would tear you to pieces," Josef said.
"Can we at least try to get into the building without using Beth as bait?" Mick asked.
"And how do you suppose we do that?" Adriana asked.
"We could pull a Wookie," Mick suggested.
"A what?" Josef asked.
"A Wookie. You know, Chewy in Star Wars. We could offer Beth to the Agency for a reward, then we escort her in," Mick explained. Adriana and Beth nodded their heads in agreement, but the pop culture reference was still lost on Josef.
"That might work…" Adriana said. "We're going to have to present ourselves as bounty hunters, but neither Josef nor I can take the lead because the Agency will recognize us. I was a client and he's a rival."
"The Agency will know me too. I was snooping around their headquarters the other night," Mick added.
"Bounty hunters snoop. You'll do fine. We will have to do something to disguise Josef and I." Adriana looked at Josef and smiled. Josef suddenly got really nervous.
"What are you going to do to me?" he asked.
"Nothing, just a little hair and make-up. Some new threads and you will be a new man." Adriana's smile widened as Josef cringed. He might trust Adriana with his life, but his wardrobe and hairstyle was something else entirely.
Mick parked his car opposite the Agency's headquarters. Adriana, Beth and himself climbed out, but Josef stayed inside.
"I won't be seen like this. It will ruin my image," Josef protested from the back seat.
Mick rolled his eyes. As the head bounty hunter he had kept his appearance, wearing dark jeans, a dark shirt and his duster. He carried a few stakes in a belt holder, but had no other weapons.
Adriana had pulled her jet-black hair back, into an Asian style bun and was wearing leather pants and bodice set, with knee-high boots. Her make-up was thick and resembled a punk rocker. She looked the part of a kick ass bounty hunter who stalked the night.
She had dressed Josef to match. He now donned leather pants, his leather jacket and a pair of combat boots—much to his dismay, "There is nothing stealthy about combat boots!" he had protested.
Adriana had dyed his hair black, to match hers. Josef had been fine with the change, until she pulled out the make-up kit. Mick practically had to hold him down as Adriana applied a thick line of eyeliner and some blush.
Josef had been protesting the whole drive about his new 'metro-sexual' look. "I look like a gay Keanu Reeves," he protested. "I'm not getting out of the car."
Much to his dismay, when he had tried to wash off the make-up he had only managed to smear it—making it look like he had been crying. Mick had had a great time with that, "Now, you look like an emotional metro-sexual…that's an improvement."
Beth was still wearing what she had been—no need for a prisoner to change—but she and Mick had taken long hot showers. The smell of sex had to be washed off. It would have been a dead give-away had they walked into the agency's headquarters smelling like they did. Adriana and Josef were lucky. Their mutual scent could be explained as bonding among teammates.
The only thing Beth carried was a Smith & Weston tucked into the back of her jeans. Josef had given it to her.
"Here, Blondie, take this." Josef reached into his freezer and pulled out the gun. "It's loaded with silver bullets. If anyone attacks you, shoot. Don't hesitate." He opened the slide to show her it was loaded, then cocked it and removed the safety.
"Thanks," Beth said as she took the gun from him. It was cold to the touch, but it warmed up quick enough. She tucked it into the back of her jeans and covered it with her shirt. "I just hope I don't have to use it."
"Me too, Blondie, me too…"
Beth nervously checked to make sure the gun was still in place and that she could get to it easily. Josef was still refusing to get out of the car.
Adriana leaned back into the back seat and whispered something into Josef's ear. It was another one of those times Mick really wished he couldn't hear what she was saying. Josef smiled and quickly exited the car.
Whatever she offered must have been appealing, Beth thought as they crossed the street.
Mick entered the Agency first. Josef and Adriana followed, escorting Beth though he doors. Mick strode up to the front desk and demanded, "I'm here to see the Boss. I have something of yours."
"The Boss is busy now, you have to make an appointment to come back and see her later," the secretary said in a monotone, not bothering to look up from her computer. Then she smelled the air and looked up straight at Beth. "You," she breathed.
"Now do I have your attention?" Mick asked. Their plan was going well. "I want to see the Boss… NOW," he demanded.
"Right away, Mr…"
"O'Loughlin. I'm here to collect the bounty on Mrs. Konstan," Mick said.
"Bounty? I didn't know there was a bounty," the woman said.
Shit, Mick thought. "The Agency wants her, correct?" he asked.
"Yes."
"Well, then, I assume they would be willing to pay. I've brought her here—untouched—so the Agency can do what they like with her. But if you want, we could just leave, though I promise you, you'll never find her if I do," Mick hoped his threat sounded convincing.
"No, sir. Just give me a moment. I'll let the Boss know you're here," the woman seemed absolutely terrified at the prospect of losing Beth.
Mick backed away from the desk turned to look at Adriana, Josef and Beth. His eyes lingered on Beth for a second longer then they should have, but he wanted to make sure she was okay. The woman finished her frantic phone call and looked up to get Mick's attention again.
"Escorts will be here in a moment. They will take you to the Boss," she informed him.
Mick started to worry, Escorts? Great, all that many more goons to fight off. "You could just tell us how to get to the Bosss office. It'd save us all a lot of time and effort," Mick hoped the woman took him up on the offer.
"Sorry. No can do. It's against company policy to let outsiders in the building unaccompanied. We have the safety of the freshies to think of." She flashed her eyes silver to make her point to Mick.
Yeah, right, because safety is your number one concern. Mick thought. I bet she probably can detect that Adriana is mortal. How does it look to have a mortal on my team? And what about Josef? I'm sure she can sense his age, and mine. Why would a vampire Josef's age be working for a young vamp like me? Well, I won't offer if she doesn't ask.
Two burly looking vamps emerged from the hallway. By the looks of them they were probably sumo wrestlers before they were turned. They were both a head taller than Mick and weighted four times as much. Mick figured these were their escorts and approached them. The vamps eyed Mick's gang suspiciously, but lead them to an elevator at the end of the hall.
Mick, Beth, Josef and Adriana all cringed at the prospect of entering the elevator, but they couldn't protest—that would look suspicious. Mick made sure Beth was in the back of the elevator, guarded by Josef and Adriana. Then he entered, adding another line of defense between the thugs and his beloved Beth.
The tension on the ride up was strangling. The group tried to keep their fear in check, but the feeling of impending doom refused to lift. As the elevator doors opened to the top floor, Beth let out a sigh, no more then above a whisper, but Mick's vampire ears picked it up as clear as day, "Together," she had said.
This one word filled Mick with hope. Together, we'll find a way together. Well, Beth, it looks like we found our way. I pray to every God I know that we will make it though, to be together… Mick's thoughts were interrupted by the escorts sudden stop in motion.
One of the men opened the door that stood in front of them. The other bowed them through the door. Mick entered first, with Josef, Adriana and Beth close on his tail. The two burly men also entered the room and closed the door. They remained at the door, preventing escape.
Mick took in the room's furnishings. The rich wood reminded him of another time, a time of elegance and sophistication. Mick grinned to himself, This room just screams evil lair.
A little girl sat in a large chair behind the desk. She couldn't have been more than ten years old. Mick could smell the power in the room. The Boss is old, really old. He looked to Josef. He could tell that Josef had felt the power too. Josef was staring at the little girl. Mick looked back at her. So sad she had to grow up in this hell. Mick couldn't imagine what that little girl had seen. His thought drifted to Adriana, Is this what it was like for her? But she turned out well. Maybe there was hope for this little girl yet…
Mick approached the desk and asked, "Where's your mother?"
Wrong question. Mick knew then, but it was too late. Before he could defend himself he was lying, on the ground, with a stake in his heart. He knew as he approached, he had made a mistake. The girl wasn't the Boss's daughter; the girl was the Boss. The power that saturated the room was flowing from her. He had registered it a little too late and the girl had lashed out before he had time to react.
Mick lay pinned to the floor, silent witness of the battle that had erupted.
Josef watched the little girl with fascination. There's something about her… Something not right… He could feel the power in the room. Centuries of power, four if he wasn't mistaken, but who?
Josef watched Mick approach the little girl. He realized as Mick spoke that the girl was the source of the power, The girl is a vampire! He started forward, but if it was him of the girl who moved first, he never knew.
Josef watched as Mick was staked and left on the floor. His first instinct was to protect Adriana. He turned to see the escorts barrel into her frail figure. Adriana was toppled to the floor and one of the goons fell with her, raining blows down upon her.
Josef leapt forward. He lunged his entire being at the man who was assaulting her. The force of Josef's leap sent the man flying towards the fall wall. Josef gained his footing only to have the wind knocked out of him by the other thug.
He stumbled forward, catching himself on his hands and knees. He heard Adriana shriek as she jumped on his attacker's back. Josef turned to find the vamp he had thrown across the room in his face. The man smiled down at Josef, in an intimidating manner.
Too bad Josef Konstantin couldn't be intimidated, at least not by a mere decade old vamp. Josef didn't bother with the show like Mick. He didn't need to see his adversary suffer. No, Josef didn't care about anything, but the end result. He was behind the vamp before the vamp could raise his fist and Josef snapped his neck with sickening ease. The vamps limp body fell to the floor and Josef turned to locate Adriana.
Adriana was still working over the other vamp. Obviously, her years around vampires had taught her a thing or two. She pressed her advantage, catching the vamp off guard. Josef moved towards her to finish the job when he heard the first shot ring out.
His fight with the vamp had taken mere seconds and his worry for Adriana had made him forget Beth. He looked to her now.
She was crouched by Mick holding the gun Josef had given her. She fired into what seemed like random air, but Josef's keen eyes could see what hers could not. The young girl vamp moved with the speed and stealth of centuries. Beth's shots were so far off that Josef was worried she might hit one of them.
He moved to take the gun from Beth, before she wasted all the bullets, but he was stopped by the vamp whose head he'd just snapped. Again Josef moved to get behind him, but the vamp had learned the first time and turned with him, not exposing his back to Josef.
Now Josef started a battle of speed and dexterity with the lumbering goon. Josef lived by the rule of fencing; brute force hardly wins, it is speed and accuracy that kills. It takes less than a pound of pressure to cut flesh. Yeah, and the body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vacuuming systems.
Josef leapt forward and sunk his fangs into his opponent's neck. He didn't need the blood, hell, he didn't want the blood, he let it run freely from his mouth. The larger vamp tried to pull Josef from him, but only wound up ripping his neck open wider on Josef fangs.
All Josef needed was the pause the vamp took at the pain. Josef ripped his fangs from the brute's throat and again snapped his neck, this time twisting the head with such inhuman strength that it ripped clean off his body.
Josef staggered to his feet and wiped the blood from his mouth with his sleeve. Again his battle had taken a matter of seconds, vamp speed certainly had its bonuses. Josef headed towards Beth, determined to get the gun from her.
That's when he felt it, like the evening before and two days earlier—a draining sensation. Josef stumbled. He felt Adriana drawing upon his strength, it was light and had he not known the feeling he would have dismissed it for weakness in battle.
He turned to look at Adriana who was still trying, desperately to fend off her attack. She was losing ground quickly. Josef knew she didn't have much fight left and she would succumb soon. He changed direction and tore the vamp from Adriana.
The vamp didn't know what hit him as Josef rained blow after blow. Josef came from behind and latched his fangs into the vamps neck. The vamp thrashed and spun around, trying to throw Josef, but his grip was firm. Josef drained him, then snapped his neck for good measure.
Meanwhile, Beth was still trying to shoot the girl. She had rushed to Mick when the she saw him fall to the floor, but the girl had hindered all her attempts to free him. Beth got the distinct impression that the girl was playing with her. She would appear in one place, one moment and another place the next.
Realizing the gun was futile, she grabbed at the stake in Mick's chest. If I can just free him, he will defeat her. Beth was confident that Mick could defeat anything, no matter if it was a centuries old vamp.
Beth barely registered the noise of the battle raging in the room. Her whole being was concentrated on Mick. She had to free Mick from the stake. She pulled, but the stake seemed to be wedged into the floor below Mick.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you…" the girl hissed into Beth ear.
The next thing Beth knew she was being thrown across the room. She slid across the floor and came to rest at the far wall.
As soon as Adriana was safe, Josef turned his attention back to Beth. He turned in time to see her bang into the wall. The little girl laughed mirthlessly and looked at Josef.
"You thought you could defeat me? You only see me a frail little girl, but I have power, power you can't imagine," the girl laughed.
"Oh yeah," Josef replied, allowing all his age and power to roll off his body like an ocean wave. The girl was taken aback, but she regained her composure and bore down on him.
Josef registered her movement, but he was unable to react. She hit him from the left, forcing his backward and on the defensive. He defended himself from further assaults, but he was unable to make any attacks of his own.
Adriana looked at Beth, crumpled by the wall, and back to Mick. Mick was a safer bet. With him, Josef had a chance of defeating the girl. Adriana ran to where Mick lay, still paralyzed. She pulled the stake upward, but before it was removed completely, she felt a burning sensation in her neck.
The girl had left her fight with Josef and attacked Adriana. The little vampire's fangs were lodged deeply in her neck and she watched as Josef approached cautiously. He couldn't rip the girl from her, in fear of what might happen.
Adriana felt her strength wane. She concentrated on the little vampire and the bond her fangs created. Adriana used all her will to drain the girl. She absorbed her power, her essence, her life.
Josef watched as the little girl twitched and tried to pull away. Adriana held the vamp to her neck. As the vamp's resistance became more violent, the stronger Adriana seemed to grow.
Finally, the girl's protest died. Her body spasmed a few more time then stopped moving. Adriana let the small, frail and limp body, fall to the floor. She looked up at Josef, eyes shinning pale blue.
Josef crossed the room and gathered her up in a fierce hug. The pain in Adriana's eyes was evident. "I'm a monster… I killed a child…" she breathed.
"No, shhhh… You're no monster… She wasn't a child, she was centuries old," Josef tried to reaffirm her.
"But, she looked like a child," Adriana broke into sobs.
Josef held her. He looked down at Mick. His friend was still paralyzed from the stake. Josef shifted Adriana to one arm and bend down to finish removing the stake with his free hand.
Mick sat up gasping for air. He tried to stand, but was unable to. He half crawled across the room, not waiting for his wounds to heal or the effects of the stake to wear off. He needed to get to Beth.
Beth still laid crumpled at the base of the wall. He approached her cautiously. Her heart's still beating. He rejoiced in the fact that she lived. He rolled her over and held her in his arm. His chest had started to heal and the pulling sensations only deepened the pain in his chest.
Beth let out a sigh and opened her eyes. She was in Mick's arms. She was safe. She looked at his chest as it healed and reached up to touch the wound, much like she had done on their fist adventure together. Mick looked at her with the same eyes.
Beth through her arms around him and kissed him. He eagerly accepted her kiss and they sat in the corner of the room, blissfully unaware of the world around them.
They were brought back to reality by a faint ringing. Mick looked down at Beth's pocket and she faintly remembered slipping her phone into her pocket. She reached down and pulled it out.
'Mo' The caller ID said. "Should I answer it?" Beth asked Mick.
"Yeah, you know you can't avoid her forever," Mick replied smiling.
Beth gave him a quick kiss and answered.
"Hey…yeah, I just finished…I can get the story to you in a few hours…what?…I don't think-" Beth was cut off, as Mo hung up. "Shit," she said.
"What? Does she want you there now?" Mick asked.
"No." Beth looked up at Josef who was still comforting Adriana in the middle of the room. "She wants to throw a party for me and Josef…celebrating our marriage."
"Oh. Well, call her back and say you can't go," Mick offered.
"No," Josef stopped them. "We should go. Make an appearance and announce our annulment. That way it looks more believable. Besides, it's rude to decline an invitation to a party in your honor."
So there it was… a 12-page update. I know I said 14, but I was confusing this and the next (which is currently 16 pages). I'm nearing the end, and I have a lot to sum up, so my posts are getting longer.
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