Chapter 29

Part 2: Dani's Demons

Forever is a really long time to be bored out of your skull.

To be immortal and faced with nothing to do isn't a good combination. It's not mentally healthy for the immortal, and it's not physically healthy for the humans around us.

My two best friends had both deserted me - Jess was away in New York on business, and Ariana was totally caught up with her new werewolf lover. On top of that, the bookstore I occasionally worked at just for something to do was closed for renovations. So here I was, a vampire with absolutely no idea what to do next. You could say I was trouble waiting to happen.

Ennui we'd called it when I'd been human. As a nun, I'd been cautioned against it as a sin. A few years later, as a courtesan in the circle of the sun king himself, we'd cultivated it as a mark of our own superiority. But we hadn't had the least idea then what boredom really meant. After well over three hundred years, I think I'd finally figured it out.

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