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woman to make her recommendations. “Are you punking me?”
    Piper propped her chin in her palm. “Fun day on the job?”
    “I could kill Val right now. No wonder she cleared out so fast.” Alice didn’t blame her. No one wanted to be the one to push a death sentence on a former best friend. God, Alice would have to do it. Damn it all to hell. She didn’t want Graham to die, either.
    The charges accused him of plotting with Kade’s mother, Domina Evangeline, to put an end to Kade. The Domina had convinced Graham to transform illegally. Alice highly doubted he’d been given knowledge of Evangeline’s intent to start a war between the Immortalis and the humans, a war Val and Kade had thwarted. For the time being.
    Graham was suffering in VLO detainment until an execution could be ordered. The stupid jerk was one of Alice’s best friends, her go-to guy for happy hour while commiserating over mutual bachelorhood. The charges against him were too unbelievable and completely out of character. He wouldn’t plot someone’s death in cold blood, and she couldn’t push the button on his execution. Could be beneficial that old agreements between the VLO and Immortalis were null and void. That would mean some homework. Maybe Val worked something into the new agreements that could save Graham’s miserable hide.
    “Does he have a lawyer?” If anyone knew the gossip, it would be Piper.
    “Don’t know. Want me to find out? I thought vampires didn’t get legal representation when the VLO has them.” She pushed away the files she’d been absently perusing to give Alice her full attention.
    “I’m as clueless as you. If you look into that, I have some treaties to scour.”
    “You’re gonna bail him out, aren’t you?” A wariness pervaded Piper’s tone.
    “It was a thought.”
    Her friend’s concerned frown was disheartening. “You know he’s not the same person, right?”
    “Maybe. Maybe not. I haven’t seen him in so long, I just don’t know.” She nibbled her lip. It didn’t matter really because the punishment didn’t fit his crime. He needed someone on his side more than ever, and he’d always been there for her. “He’s a good man. A good friend. I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
    “Oooookay. He’s too pretty to die anyway. Man, Val really stuck it to you, didn’t she?”
    She sure as hell did . Alice stood and headed for her door. “I’m not answering that for fear of self-incrimination on a future murder.” Piper’s soft laughter followed as she shut herself into her new office.
    Spreading out the agreements with the Immortalis, she tried to focus, but her mind wouldn’t stop obsessing over the scene at the abandoned house that evening.
    If she’d been attracted to Killian before, it was nothing compared to talking to him up close. He was hot enough to grill on. God, who wore leather pants in the first cusp of Seattle’s cold, spring humidity? And how he wore them well. It had been difficult to keep her eyes safely averted, but she hadn’t failed to notice the bulge of his—uh, yeah—his muscles through those leathers. Luckily, he hadn’t caught her gawking at his perfect set of steely buns. His charcoal shirt pulled tight over his back gave her a clear picture of how that tall, sinewy shape would look stripped naked.
    When he’d faced her, he was all smooth skin and masculine angles, kissable lips with the lower slightly fuller than the upper. The shirt had made the color of his eyes a dark cherry. Last time she’d seen him, he’d had his hair pulled back from his lean face, but he’d cut it since then to just below the top of his collar, where it brushed the fabric in disheveled waves. His ears stood out more, but it only seemed to suit his sexy Irishness and dusky auburn hair. Yum. Just yum. And then he had to open his impudent mouth.
    The hint of rumbling brogue may have been arousing, but she didn’t take well to force or threats of any kind, so yeah. He’d screwed