Who hit you?" "Why, so you can go beat him up?" "One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection." "I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude." "He hurt you." "And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew," I said.
The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel (ed. Penguin, 2002) - ISBN: 9781101146569