Chapter 79

I materialized in the lower level of the Council house where we usually held our meetings. It wasn't a formal meeting, so we didn't have the long table out. Everyone present was lounging on the modern furniture talking like old friends.

Tony was conspicuously absent.

I'm sure he had to change his shirt.

Malarias, Alexis' replacement, stood alone by the fireplace with his old, stooped shoulders. He was at least a thousand years old and looked every bit of it. Someone had turned Malarias when he was eighty, and with his long white robe, he would have looked more at home in a monastery than a Vampire Council house. I didn't care for Malarias at all, because when Alexis had been trying to fight for my life, he was the one who resisted saving me.

All eyes were on me when I approached.

"Where is Tony?" Cyrene asked me coolly.

No one on the Council liked me. Cyrene thought I was too low class. Keada didn't like how I got on the Council. Frank wanted to have sex with me. Kaniji still bl