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certainly didn’t blame her, considering Eden’s family history. Normally she might tell Eden to just suck it up and live with the shame of being born into an ancient line of vampire hunters. It wasn’t like anyone was going to bite her or anything. Tonight, however, Eden’s attitude was tinted more with impatience than paranoia, and Sid was in complete agreement. She was even more anxious to get this duty over with than her mortal friend.
    â€œLet’s try to get in, smile at everybody, and get out.”
    â€œRoger that,” Eden answered.
    At least Eden carried her and Laurent’s daughter, which assured her welcome. Sid hoped that little Toni would be the center of attention and darling of everyone’s eye for the evening. Toni was going to grow up mortal, which meant that she wasn’t going to help the vampire population problem, but she was an adorable toddler, all blond curls and pink cheeks and dimples. She got the dimples from her dad, Sid’s brother, Laurent. Who didn’t have to be here tonight because, after all, he was Prime.
    â€œPutz,” Sid muttered.
    She deeply resented the fact that even at the dawn of the twenty-first century, thems with penises still got to have all the fun. She didn’t blame Laurent, who was out on the streets searching for Cathy, but she seethed with fury at Lady Juanita for not allowing the female members of Bleythin Investigations to join the hunt.
    â€œWhat?” Eden asked as they went up the wide steps leading to the carved double doors.
    â€œJust pouting because I have to go in and be nice to everyone. Do you want to take a turn?”
    â€œYes, please,” Eden said. “I could be hacking into the old laptop we found in Cathy’s closet right now if not for this command performance. It’s not that I don’t love your Clan, but—”
    â€œYou don’t.”
    â€œI love your mother.”
    â€œAs well you shou—Hello, Matri,” Sid said as Lady Juanita opened the door.
    The Matri nodded regally. “Welcome, Wolf daughters. You will always have a place in my citadel.”
    Whether we want it or not, Sid thought, using many layers of mental shielding to keep her opinions to herself.
    Besides, the Matri had spoken to them aloud instead of issuing a telepathic greeting. That set the ground rule for this evening. Sid understood why when another female appeared beside Juanita at the door.
    â€œHi, Mom,” Sid greeted Lady Antonia, head of her house of the Wolf Clan.
    Antonia had lost her ability to use telepathy, and it would be rude and cruel to use this sense when she couldn’t. Besides, Eden didn’t have a lick of psychic ability.
    Antonia held out her arms, and Eden dutifully handed Antonia’s namesake over to her grandmother. Then Lady Juanita ushered them into her home with an elegant, imperative gesture.
    â€œI hear your sire was in town,” Antonia said as Sid walked beside her down the long entrance hall.
    â€œHe stopped by to pay his respects this morning before he returned to Los Angeles,” Juanita said before Sid could answer.
    She hoped he hadn’t said anything about the conversation they’d had to the Matri, since he’d been livid about her suggestion of using modern medicine to assist their population problem. He had calmed down enough to say he’d talk to the people at the Los Angeles clinic, if and only if she could come up with a Prime who’d agree to the procedure.
    She knew this was because he didn’t think she had a snowball’s chance in hell of finding a suitable candidate, since Clan Primes were so stupidly old-fashioned and macho.
    And speaking of macho…
    Sid was aware of the males waiting for them before they reached the garden courtyard. The energy that hit her senses was hot and spicy, filled with dark undertones of challenge and rivalry. The males of her own species always reminded her of cinnamon and