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him stir.
    Blane moved to sit beside her, listening to her heart speed up a few beats. “Nervous?”
    She laughed, answering the question by the tremor in her voice.
    He went for her neck. There was no reason to be subtle or coy. She wouldn’t remember it later. If she screamed, it wouldn’t matter. The fetish rooms were full of strange sounds and acts that would have normal people dialing 9-1-1.
    The woman arched toward him and fumbled to grab his sides. She tried to slow him down, but it was too late. Blane’s teeth hit her skin and sank home before she uttered a word.
    The hot liquid filled his mouth with her taste. Everything from the drinks that she’d had earlier to the iron supplements she was taking were in that crimson fluid. But there was

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    something else. Her essence, that part of her that was her life, flowed into him and filled him with a power that made the drink intoxicating.
    How easy it would be to keep drinking, to rob away her life to extend his own.
    Blane pulled hard, taking another long drink of the girl. She squirmed and moaned beneath him, feeling a little too much like Christiana had felt beneath him in the gym.
    He pressed harder into the woman’s body to keep her still and swallowed another gulp of her. He wasn’t going to get lost in thinking about that annoying, snotty vampiress he had been assigned to watch.
    Or how much he wanted her.
    The woman beneath him moaned a little more softly, drawing his attention. Her heart was beating more slowly. He’d taken enough blood. Even if he wanted to keep drinking, to finish her off, he wasn’t a murderer. At least, not when his own life wasn’t at stake, or when he was defending others.
    He pulled his teeth away and closed the wound to stop her from bleeding out. The human’s eyes were closed. The fringe of dark lashes made her look more like a child than she was. Innocent. And he the monster who’d just violated her was staring down at her, filled with the blood she needed to animate her own body.
    Blane swallowed hard and slid off the couch. He’d have to wipe her memory, and then he was out of here. As much of an asshole as he felt when he acted cowardly, he couldn’t stick around for a chat with dinner.

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Chapter Four
    Two Weeks Later
    “Blane.”
    Hearing his name over the music, Blane turned back toward the crimson-and-black booth where Michael and Jonas sat looking up at him. Michael was in a crisp, dark suit and looked like the hard-ass leader he was shaping up to be. Jonas, on the other hand, looked like something out of the movies. He only got away with it in public because it was his club and everyone thought he was in costume, like the rest of the vampire staff.
    The changes in both of them were obviously due to the fratello relaxing with their new mates. It was enough to make Blane wonder what it might be like to have someone like that. A female to come home to, to be his other half.
    But only for a second.
    Blane pulled the toothpick he’d been chewing out of his mouth. “Yeah, Boss?”
    “The plane’s leaving just after sunset tomorrow night. Don’t make me come after you.”
    Jonas’s pasty skin drew up on one side of his mouth, giving him a wicked smirk. “It’s okay. I’ll go after him.”
    Blane laughed. “Man, you need to find a hobby.”
    Yeah. No way in hell was he going to tangle with Jonas. He’d taken on all of Luciano’s traits. Watching him fight the agents had been enough to ensure that none of the cosca crossed him. Things had been quiet because of it. “Why don’t you take up cage fighting? I hear G’s got a great setup just outta town.”
    Jonas let out a laugh that drew a few gazes in their direction. Mostly from other vampires,

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    since they were the only ones who could hear that well over the music.
    “Just be on time, Blane.” Michael took another drink from his glass. “I’m depending on you for this trip.”
    “Sure.”
    Blane popped the toothpick back into his mouth and