Byron had put a lot of pressure on it. He was alive, and I wanted him to stay that way. You can't kick Nathaniel out of his own kitchen, Richard, and I don't want Micah to go either. The Sapphire Room is a cross between a hunting lodge, a safari room, and other things people think men think is masculine.
No shit, I said. A second after he'd done it, I understood why, because it was as if my soul spilled up into my lips, as if the very essence of me was a taste upon my lips. What I didn't say out loud was that I'd forgotten and worn overalls that had blood on them to a zombie raising. The thin mustache and Vandyke beard were as raven dark as his hair and the eyebrows that framed those startling blue eyes.
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