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opened the wrong door at the wrong time and overheard too much of their unholy meeting.
    Selena took a deep breath before she went on. She was glad that her voice didn't shake when she said, "I waschecking out a lead in a murder investigation. I found — "
    Vampires.
    The voice that uttered the word in her mind was not her own or the woman's. It had been spoken in a deep, masculine growl. The word had been an explanation, but the texture of it had been pure command.
    Selena looked up, freed from the diamond woman's stare, and found herself instantly snared by a gaze as deep as blue velvet night, as wild as an alpha wolf's. A moment before, sh 'd been freezing, cold with fear and fury and stubborn determination. Fire ran through her veins as she looked deep into the newcomer's eyes. Fire ran between them that had nothing to do with fear and that made desire a tame word.
    She didn't know whether the need was her own or his, but for the first time in her life, she suddenly knew what it felt like to be truly hungry. It took more will to break eye contact with him than it had with her captor, but Selena managed it. Not that she looked away; instead, she studied the sharply drawn features that were clear to her despite the shadows around him. Shadows that were somehow of his making and not just an absence of light.
    He was tall and lean. All the creatures were slender, but this one had the presence of a wolf among rangy alley cats. His face was long, sharp, narrow but for the width of high cheekbones and the sensual slash of mouth. It was an ascetic face, cold, hard, but for the mouth. His mouth promised all the pleasure in the world.
    His eyes, however, promised nothing. They were ice blue, sharp as volcanic glass, colder than space. And yet, a moment before…
    "Vampire."
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    Unfortunately.
    "You aren't paying attention to me, darling," the diamond woman said. Nails dug into Selena's shoulders, bringing her attention abruptly back to the immediate danger. "Why is that?"
    "Because you're not the most interesting thing in the room."
    Selena didn't know why she said it; this was not a woman to cross; but the words were snapped out as an almost triumphant snarl. Then it struck her that she had said vampire about the newcomer without a flicker of disbelief. Of course all these monsters were vampires. What else could they be? She'd been told that magic was real often enough, but —
    When they hunt you down and sink their teeth in you, it will be real enough.
    Do you mind? she demanded of the intruding voice. Did I invite you to walk into my head and try to scare the living shit out of me?
    Try?
    Why did he have to sound so amused? I'm scared, she acknowledged. So?
    Her captor shifted her hold and sank her claws deep into the soft flesh of Selena's bare arms.
    Selena's cry of pain blended with the gasp of desire that came from the vampires as blood scented the air.
    "Pay attention, child. 1 am Maria, the mistress here. It is up to me to decide your fate." A few drops of blood from the deep punctures trickled over the diamond woman's fingertips. She stretched a hand out. "Lawrence."
    "You spoil me, Maria."
    "It's because you're so pretty."
    He bent over Maria's hand and swiftly licked theblood from her fingers. Then he planted a soft kiss on her palm in gratitude. "She's delicious."
    From her kneeling position, Selena had a close view of the male vampire and the erection that bulged beneath his tight jeans. The bastard had a hard-on from tasting her blood! Vampires were dead! This guy obviously wasn't.
    "You people have some kind of kinky blood fetish, right?"
    "Exactly," Maria answered. She waved Lawrence off. He took one reluctant step. "Do you want her?"
    He drew his lips back over extended fangs.
    "I see you do."
    A ripple of laughter spread around the room. Selena suppressed a whimper as a hand twisted in her hair and she was pulled to her feet.