Chapter 95

Someone screeched beside us. It was the sneaky little British man. He had flown at us while our backs were turned, but Tyler had leaped at him and apparently had made contact with his face because his skin was smoking and bubbling.

"Enough!" Esmeralda screamed. Her ruined arm was hanging uselessly at her side. "Alexis, you've left Epic Cu and forfeited your bargain with the Elder Council."

Alexis chuckled. "Esmeralda, it has been many years; centuries in fact, since last we spoke. I see that you are still governed by your ridiculous jealousy. I have not left Epic Cu. As we speak I am staring out of one of the stained glass windows at the stars. It's such a beautiful night. I love Spain and its dark, sultry beauty."

Esmeralda grew dark, darker than was natural even with her Latin heritage. She cursed him in Spanish, but somehow I understood every word. "You pig! You bastard! How dare you call this … this Third 'Your Love' when we shared a bed for close to two hundred years and you b