"She died in New Orleans?"
"Yes. She was a handmaiden to the queen," he said, as though he were telling me she'd gotten her partnership at a big law firm, or managed to buy her own business.
"The queen ofLouisiana," I said cautiously.
"I knew you would understand," he said, beaming at me." 'This is a woman who knows her vampires,' I said to myself when I met you."
"She knows this vampire," Bill said, appearing at my side in that disconcerting way he had. A flash of displeasure went across Mr.Cataliades's face like quick lightning across the sky.
"And you would be?" he asked with cold courtesy.
"I would be Bill Compton, resident of this parish and friend to Miss Stackhouse," Bill said ominously. "I'm also an employee of the queen, like you."
The queen had hired Bill so the computer database about vampires he was working on would be her property. Somehow, I thought Mr.Cataliades performed more personal services. He looked like he knew where all the bodies were buried, and Waldo looked like he had put them there.
Bubba was right behind Bill, and when he stepped out of Bill's shadow, for the first time I saw the vampire Waldo show an emotion. He was in awe.
"Oh my gracious! Is this El—" Mr.Cataliades blurted.
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