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Powerplay

Author: Favor V April
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Jonathan's POV

The dead have better manners than most people I know.

Take this one, for example. She’s lying at my feet, every artery neatly severed, still clutching her pale blue clutch like a debutante waiting for her limo. I’d say “rest in peace,” but she looks more at peace than any living girl I’ve met at Lucas’s parties.

The trick is to leave a little color in the cheeks. Too pale, and even the idiots in this city start asking questions. I put her out in the cold where the body will keep. No one will find her until sunrise. There’s enough time. There’s always enough time if you take it.

The other trick is never to get sentimental about your food. By the time the sun starts nibbling at the eastern sky, I’m already standing on Lucas’s doorstep, wiping the crimson from my lips with a napkin I stole from his own kitchen. They’re the expensive kind, embossed with the Sterling crest: two griffins, one for pride, the other for cruelty. Old money, old secrets. Lucas has both in spades,
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