"If this is how you're looking, now, then look all you like." Angelique leaned warmly into Fin's touch. He was always so sweet with her, respectful but affectionate. It was a heady blend, coming from him. "I'm well, as ever. I had an impromptu lunch with Pippa the other day, who is just as lovely as you've always said."

She hesitated a moment, realizing only now that Pippa had steered her away from associating her vampire quest with Fin at all. Though, if she were freely sharing such tales with a virtual stranger, surely she had told her dear brother as well. "Sort of knocks one off ones feet a bit, doesn't she?"