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her.  Whether she knew what it meant, he didn’t know, but he’d find out soon enough.
    The door shut as Cella pulled Arissa out of the office and Brone headed for the door, intent on keeping Arissa within view so he could keep her safe.  There were thirty-seven coven members who lived at Fang, not including the family .  Most of them were unmated males, and Brone didn’t want Arissa to be harmed.
    Mishka said, “Temple will go with Cella to keep Arissa safe until we arrive.  I need to speak to you, Brone.”
    Traz reached the office door first and opened it, saying, “Anyone else think it’s not a good idea to make goo-goo eyes at the new girl when Brone’s around?”
    Temple smacked him on the back of the head.  “I wouldn’t even joke about it.”
    The others left and Brone looked at Mishka who said, “Clearly you two are connected.  She completely ignored me and the others.”  He looked thoughtful. “I’ve never met a female that could ignore my persuasion outside of the one that we won’t mention.”
    Brone’s vision hazed red.  “You tried to seduce her?”
    “No, of course not,” Mishka waved absently.  “I was trying to hold her attention so I put persuasion into my voice, and I might as well have been mute for all that it affected her.  Still, I am the leader of this coven and you are accountable to me.  Since I know you will pursue her because she is your mate — and that much is clear to me — promise me that you will keep your wooing to after-work hours.”  Mishka arched a brow.  “You do plan to mate her, yes?  I’ve heard the beloved bond is hard to ignore.”
    “Of course.”
    “Which involves biting.  Do you know if your beloved bond will help her to heal your bite marks?”
    “I don’t know.”
    When beloveds mated, they shared blood during sex.  It was extremely intimate, sharing not only blood but their memories.  She would see everything he had ever done, and he would see what her life had been like.  If she were human, she would be changed into a vampire.  As a natural Wiccan, she would become immortal but not vampire, still retaining her Wiccan powers.  She would live as long as he lived, their immortality forever linked.  Whether she would be able to heal the wounds of his double fangs, though, he couldn’t say.  During feeding, his tongue emitted an essence that numbed the area and slowed the healing.
    “Right,” Mishka said, bringing Brone’s attention back to the matter at hand.  “She just started work today.  I can’t have you put a slow-healing wound in her neck when she has to come to work tomorrow.”
    “I don’t know that we would complete our bond tonight.”  He hadn’t even spoken to her yet.  He couldn’t say for sure what the night would bring.
    “I’m asking you to wait until Sunday.  It will give you time to romance her.  Modern women appreciate that sort of thing.”
    Fantastic.
    “I will wait.”
    As they left to go to the hall where the coven was going to meet Arissa for the first time, Brone thought, Just because she is attracted to me doesn’t mean that she understands what it means.   Which meant that he would still need to take the time to get to know her before they mated.  In the meantime, though, he would make it clear to the rest of the coven that she was off limits. 
     
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    After the meeting with the coven, which went well in his estimation, Cella took Arissa on a tour of the club and Brone had planned to accompany them, but Mishka wanted him to take a team and check out suspicious activities conducted by the First Church of Humanity.  It had taken several hours, but Brone had eventually discovered that the church had installed hidden cameras in the buildings across and alongside the club and were filming the people who were coming and going.  The cameras were destroyed after one of the vampires on the team, who was a tech genius, had been certain that the church was receiving the video