章節 30: Chapter 30: Oxford Blues

I did my best not to fidget in my seat while the others in the room whispered among themselves. Our arrival at Oxford was just in time, the veil delivering Piers and me to Femke's office where Danilo and Sunny sat talking with the European Council Leader.

Femke walked over to me and hugged me, though the wrinkling of her nose as she came close made me sigh. A burst of power cleared the air, though the stench of the sewer still clung to the insides of my nostrils and left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

It took us only a few minutes to fill her in on everything that happened since I saw her the night before. Femke, the vampire queen and werewolf king all listened carefully, Danilo's expression of anger at Eva's reaction joined by a pulse of irritation from Sunny and a heavy sigh from Femke.

"I've been trying to reach her," the tall Swede said. "I feared she and her people were gone."