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Tinkerbell

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Daisy rolled her eyes, but Nick looked totally unruffled. “Ah, Linda, my sweet. I was hoping you’d be our waitress tonight. I’ve missed that sunny smile of yours.”

Linda folded her arms across her chest. “Bite me, freak.”

Nick grinned, and for just a second, he looked so much like Archer that I clenched my teeth.

“Who’s to say I won’t, Linda?” Nick asked, raising his eyebrows. Daisy elbowed him in the side. Linda just glared until Nick waved his hands. “Truce, truce,” he said. “All right then, Daisy and I will have our usual.”
 
Thank you, BobK. But still I don't understand. He refers to missing her sunny smile?
 
Tinkerbell said:
Thank you, BobK. But still I don't understand. He refers to missing her sunny smile?
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Answer deleted as it was completely wrong!!!!! ;-)
 
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Actually, I think it refers to whether or not he will actually (literally) bite here.

"Bite me" is a sarcastic thing to say akin to "go screw yourself." Apparently (is this the vampire thing?), he's suggesting that literally biting her is a possibility.
 
Barb, you're so right!!!! I completely and utterly misread the OP and totally missed that. I've deleted the contents of my previous post and will now go away and wake my brain up! :)
 
:up: (I hadn't thought of your vampire idea, but it makes sense.)

Anyway, Tinkerbell, he's saying 'Who's to say I won't bite you?' It's a joke - taking the idiom over-literally. She doesn't laugh at the joke, but continues to glare. That's why he says 'Truce'.

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Could you tell us the name of this book? The excerpts you have posted show that it has a very natural-sounding writing style, so although most vampire books aren't really my thing, I may enjoy this one!

Besides, anyone who includes an homage to The Great Gatsby, unless the naming of the characters was a coincidence, deserves at least a look-through.
 
Sure. Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins. But it will be published in 2011 March. :-?
 
Then I will be patient!
 
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