"Please. I wish to speak to you, but wanted to greet this charming young man first."

"I'll let you two get to business then," Sebastian said, kissing the Representative's hand and then backing away.

"Charming turncoat," Shamira muttered. "Yes?"

"Yes what?"

"You wanted to talk to me?"

"Why is it that you are the only one here who seems less than thrilled to accommodate me?" Alessandra asked amusedly. "Now that I have had a chance to meet Lord Stapleton's were contingent, I would like to have a smaller gathering with just the vampires of Shane's line. I so rarely get to visit family," she ended in a whisper meant for...