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said.
    “Maybe they’re looking for the same thing you are?” Lawrence said.
    “Peace and quiet, you mean? If so, they won’t find it here,” Pru said. “This place is full of tourists.”
    “And demons?” Lawrence asked. “After all, Damon and Simon are hunters.”
    Personally Pru thought that one of the ice sculptors looked like he could be a demon, with his stained flannel shirt and tattoo-laden burly arms. He’d created a lacy ice snowflake design that looked more angelic than demonic. But maybe that was to throw them off.
    “If you were worried about demons, you shouldn’t have hired them as mercenaries,” Simon told Lawrence.
    Lawrence shrugged. “Good help is hard to find. As it turns out, it was an experiment gone wrong and you may have done us a favor by destroying them.”
    Was that why they’d all been high-fiving each other at the ice rink last night? Here she’d been afraid Simon was in danger and instead they were all buddy-buddy now? If she lived forever, she’d never understand vampires.
    “Since I did a favor for the Gold Coast clan, do one for me. Stop following us,” Simon said with a dangerously hard edge to his voice.
    “Or?” Lawrence said.
    “You don’t want to find out.” Simon turned his back and walked away, dragging Pru with him.
    Zoe hurried after them. “Wait up!”
    “I told you to keep your mouth shut.” Simon’s anger was reflected in his expression as he glared down at Pru before Zoe joined them.
    ”Is there a problem?” Zoe asked.
    Simon flashed his charming smile. Pru knew him well enough to recognize that it wasn’t real. His real smile could almost make you forgive him anything. Except walking out on her in London. Okay, she might even have forgiven that if he hadn’t had sex with her simply because she was a descendant of Morgan Le Fay’s. He’d told her as much. And been rather proud of himself in doing so.
    What witch wouldn’t curse him? Actually, she hadn’t realized at the time that she had the power to truly curse him. Normally that didn’t happen. Not between a witch and a vampire. But because of her ties to Morgan and his to Merlin, their situation was different.
    Yes, she’d wanted to teach him a lesson, but if the truth be told, she hadn’t cast the curse in a premeditated manner. He’d hurt her so badly she’d reacted instinctively. She was the one who should have learned a lesson, because despite everything that had happened between them, that kiss last night had proved she still had feelings for him.
    There was no telling what Simon’s feelings for her might be. He certainly wasn’t telling her.
    “We’re fine,” Simon told Zoe. “Go stay with Damon.”
    And leave us alone. He hadn’t said the words, but Zoe got the message. After checking with Pru, who nodded, Zoe left.
    Pru was suddenly distracted by a strong sense of … something. Something aside from Simon. Something powerful. Something from their world, not the mortal one.
    “It’s close by,” Pru said.
    “How close by?” Simon demanded. Looking over her shoulder, he scanned the area with narrowed eyes. “Down this aisle?” He pointed left. “Or that one?” He pointed right. “There have to be dozens of bloody ice sculptures here.”
    “I don’t know.” His anger was getting to her. “What am I, your personal compass? Your magical GPS?”
    “Stay focused,” he said curtly. “Which of these ice sculptures seems suspicious to you?”
    “The one with a naked mermaid on top of Santa’s sleigh seems in suspicious taste to me,” she said before very quietly adding, “I don’t have the ability to sense demons the way you do.”
    “I know.” He took her hand in his with such gentleness that she wondered if it was his way of apologizing. “Let’s check out Santa’s naked helper.”
    As they got closer, Pru realized the mermaid wasn’t actually nude. There was the impression of a bandeau top across her ample breasts. Which made sense, given that this was