Chapter 12

Because Aunt Holiday is still asleep in the sitting room, and Kel and Magnum Ride are no-shows for dinner, tucked away in the porn star’s heated bedroom on the second floor, obviously banging the evening away, continuing their passion for each other, conversation at dinner is shared among the colonel, Lady Vampe, myself, and our kind host, Bar Moore. Colonel McCarmichael’s pet, Dash Hound, is present, but he doesn’t sit at the table. Instead, the pet contentedly sits at the colonel’s right side, Indian-style, happily eating on the floor, chained to his owner by golden links.