“Namenal, how are you progressing with acquisitions?” the queen asked.“Your Majesty, despite our best efforts our avenues in the Empire for acqu...sition have diminished considerably due to the involvement of the young Archduke Jason Kargo. He blocked our main supply. Then he stopped our supply from the Coven. He managed to rescue the King of the Coven. The Coven embraced the king of old and we lost a vital ally. They were supplying us with several millions to satisfy our hunger every few months.. I turned her away from the sun and cupped the side of her face, “lad...”I froze as I got a good look at the strange slanted eyes looking into mine with a deep hunger. She was a half breed sidhe but almost looked like lady Baris. She growled and I shook myself and looked around and shifted to pull a small knife. I cut my wrist and put it to her mouth, “drink.”She caught it and sucked and bit as if she were starving which she probably was. When I felt my heart pounding I tore my wrist free,. "That sounds like an interesting place to go. I've never been there."It seemed strange that of all the places that men had taken me to, nonehad taken me to a museum. "Yes that really does sound nice." How about Saturday, I'll pick you up at noon and we'll go to themuseum? They have a sit down restaurant there and we can have lunch.I've been told it is in an atrium." That sounds good to me. Here let me write down my address." I reachedinto my bag and pulled out a piece of paper and a pencil. Her younger sister, Rowena McD--, was in her late twenties, and her husband had only recently perished from dysentery, leaving her sad-eyed but quite "well fixed," as they said. She was still in her widow's "weeds" when we met and a very lovely woman she was with a fine, straight back, tiny and stay-cinched waist, yards of dark hair and high, proud breasts. She caught me coming out of her sister's room after the third or fourth time we had noisily roistered together. It was mid-afternoon, as I.