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to finish. He saw the knowledge on his brothers’ faces.
     
    If Kall hadn’t come along, the vamps would have had him, and Em and Drei would have been faced with an impossible decision. Em especially. Betray his brother, or the woman he loved?
     
    The sudden silence in the room was heavy with unspoken emotion. Kall’s husky voice slid softly into the space. “And I know what he’s planning to do to Cat, because he’s done it before. He did it to me. A year ago, I was human. Or, ‘Other’, I guess. Seren attacked me outside of a club. He meant to kill me, but when he tasted my blood...” She shrugged, a smile twitching her lips. “I guess we taste different.”
     
    “That’s when you disappeared. He took you?” Cat’s tone was inquisitive, her face open and guileless, the expression in her eyes warm. Interested, but not pushy. Grig could see why she was such a good reporter. She made you want to tell her things.
     
    Now Kall really did smile. “You don’t even know you’re doing that, do you? And if I wasn’t a vamp, I doubt I could tell. Wow.” She shook her head. Cat frowned.
     
    “What? Doing what?”
     
    “You’re... I don’t know what you’d call it... projecting, maybe? When you ask a question, you send out this little pulse of mental energy. It’s calming, makes the target feel relaxed. Guess that comes in handy at work.”
     
    Cat blinked. Everyone else turned to look at her in surprise. Her cheeks flushed. “No, I didn’t know I was doing that.”
     
    “What about you, Red? Got a little something extra? Are you really good at guessing people’s weights or finding lost things?” Kall’s tone was light, but Grig could tell by the intensity of her dark eyes that she wasn’t joking. They all could.
     
    “It’s Cassandra. And I can read thoughts. Usually. But not yours.”
     
    Kall hopped off the filing cabinet, pacing. Or attempting to pace. In the close confines, she could only take two steps before having to turn back around.
     
    “No, you wouldn’t. That’s my little perk. I guess you could say I’m invisible.”
     
    “I see you just fine.” Grig winked.
     
    Kall snorted. “Not like that, wolfie. Not exactly. It’s like... you see that episode of Buffy where she gets the mind reading abilities and she tries to read Angel’s mind and he says it’s like the mirror thing? They don’t cast a reflection? It’s like that. I’m here, you can see me, but I don’t register on the psychic radar. That’s just the baseline though. I can push it out and...” She trailed off. Her fingers twitched at her sides and her shoulders tightened.
     
    Cat gasped.
     
    Drei barked, “What the hell?”
     
    Em scanned the room, jaw hard as granite. Cassandra just cocked her head to the side.
     
    Grig frowned, glancing from Kall to the others. She looked the same. Tense, a little white around the mouth, but otherwise exactly as she’d looked a moment before. “You’re really obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, aren’t you?”
     
    Everyone’s eyes flew to him, but it was Kall’s that held his gaze. Wide, dark, amazed.
     
    “You see me.”
     
    Cat twitched at Kall’s words. Drei grimaced. “That’s really unsettling.”
     
    Kall relaxed, closing the small distance between them, staring up into Grig’s face. “You saw me.”
     
    “Uh. Yeah. You were standing right there.”
     
    “She was gone, little brother. One second standing there talking, the next...” Cassandra shook her head.
     
    “ That’s why I can’t smell you,” Em said, exhaling what sounded almost like a sigh of relief.
     
    Drei cracked his knuckles. “I just thought it was because she’s covered in Grig’s scent.”
     
    “That’s why you can’t smell me,” Kall confirmed, though her eyes were still on Grig. “Vamps can’t either. When I was human, I just thought I was supremely unremarkable.”
     
    Grig eyed her slender body, the pert curve of her breasts, the exotic beauty of