Isis:Yes, Arabella. Did you get any “information”?
Arabella:Is that supposed to be innuendo?
Isis:Of course it is. You can tell by the “quotes”.
Maisie:Not everything in quotes is innuendo, Isis. Quotation marks could indicate someone “talking” to a friend.
Komal:Hahahaha.
Winnie:Don’t mind Arabella. She’s feeling a little out of sorts because she had a “thing” with Gideon.
Maisie:A “thing”? Oooh, Arabella, do tell.
Arabella:I did not have a “thing”.
Winnie:That’s not what it looked like when the two of you met in the market.
Winnie:The fruit section was a war zone after their “not-thing”.
Arabella:If you’re all going to harp on about it, perhaps I won’t tell you what I’ve learned.
Beth:We’re your friends, Arabella. If you did have a “thing” with the hot vampire billionaire property developer, we’re happy for you. You hold a lot of tension in your shoulders. I’ve been concerned about you for months, but since you refuse to let me use one of my healing modalities, perhaps a little shag will help?
Arabella:I hate you all.
Arabella:And I’m not sleeping with Gideon Blake. Not ever. Especially not now he’s our prime suspect.
Winnie:What? I thought we were certain he was innocent.
Arabella:We are NOT.
Maisie:Ooooh, do tell.
Arabella:According to Gideon, if his human workers discover who they’re working for, he either has Lilac drug them so they forget (highly immoral and probably illegal in both human and vampire worlds) or hires them as Thralls for the estate for any member to drink from. Do those sound like the actions of an innocent man with nothing to hide?
Winnie:But he does have things to hide. Like the fact that he – and everyone at Sanctus, including you – is a vampire.
Arabella:Pah, details.
Winnie:I don’t think Patrick would have agreed to become a Thrall. So how come he ended up dead instead of getting Lilac’s potion?
Mina:Arabella is just going to have to dig deeper.
Komal:Oh, she’s going to go DEEP.
Arabella:I will curse you all. I hope the chocolate chips in your favourite muffins always turn out to be raisins.
Celeste:Raisins! That’s a particularly cruel curse to wish upon your friends.
Beth:Ladies! We need a day off from all these murders and vampires and raisins. Good thing the Zen and Tonic Pole Studio grand opening is tomorrow night! I hope you’re all ready to dance up a storm. We need to entice lots of people to join and sign up for the variety show!
Arabella:I hate you.
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Komal:Don’t youdaretry and skive off opening night like Celeste did! I don’t care if all your clients at Sanctus see you. If I’m embarrassing myself in front of the entire village, then you are, too!
