“I switched it around by accident. Or maybe I just wasn’t paying attention. Bottom line: I get what I want. Then I help you by moving in. Or I move in with you. Then I get what I want. Either way, I was right. Again. I just don’t have enough faith in myself, that’s the problem.”

“Yeah, that’s the problem.” Betsy looked mystified. “I don’t get it.”

“If you were as smart as me,” Antonia assured her, “you would.”

“Oh, goody. Someone else who has zero respect for me. Because there aren’t enough of them hanging out in this mausoleum.”

Garrett picked that moment to bound in, give Antonia’s hair a friendly yank, and bound back out.

Betsy watched him go. “How, uh, sweet.”

“Wow! I didn’t even hear him come in that time! God, what a man.” Antonia sighed and shoveled more eggs in her mouth. “Isn’t that just the sexiest, coolest thing you’ve ever seen?”

“Um. Let me get you a napkin. Possibly five.”

“Bitch.”

The queen laughed at her. “Sez you.”

MaryJanice Davidson is the bestselling author of several books, most recently Undead and Unreturnable and Hello, Gorgeous! With her husband Anthony Alongi, she also writes a series featuring a teen were-dragon named Jennifer Scales, most recently Jennifer Scales and the Messenger of Light. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two children and is currently working on her next book.