" Yes and one I shall remedy before she takes my throne." But why, Mother? Why her and not me?" Because while you are admittedly stronger than Cassand...a, you are also reckless. We vampires may individually be stronger than humans but collectively they could still overwhelm our relatively small numbers, wipe us out if they ever knew we were living among and feeding on them.Your brazen past is enough to assure me I have made the right choice." A queen must be fearless!" Fearless, yes, but not. You can go now!" Lucille tensed, a sick feeling bordering on fear rising in her stomach as she saw the two big men exchange wary looks. It passed, more from sheer fatigue than anything else, and they dressed in silence.Lucille smoothed it over with chatter until they were out the door, and then she fairly charged into the bathroom."Are you nuts?" "What?" Midge said, staring innocently up from her seat on the toilet."What you said to them. And the way you said it. You'll do that some day to some. If he kills me so be it. I deserve anything that he does to me."Her heart jumps into her heart throat when he comes down the stairs. Despite her resolve she retreats from him. He sits heavily on the couch while she stays on her feet.Then he speaks heavily, "I wanted to kill you as badly as I have ever wanted anything in my life!"After a lengthy pause he continues with weary resignation in his voice, "But I can't! I love you. Is that insanity taken to the highest level or what? Ok, here is what. There was a pay phone near the closed concession stand. "Dad, you said I could call you if I needed to. I'm at the lake, and I desperately need a ride home."Crystal had planned to put Amy in the front seat. Instead, Amy headed for the back, and Nicole and Sarah got in with her. Crystal rode in single glory in the front. Her dad let the back seat off a block from Amy's back door. The girls had a plan to get her in unseen. Without asking, her dad drove back to the beach to pick up the others. He.