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smiled. Seph was her partner in crime and a sweetheart.
    “I’m picking you up, Seph. I’ll be there in five.”
    Miriam and Persephone had been friends since they were kids, but Seph’s family had only just returned to Chicago a couple of months ago after living in Italy for the past ten years.
    “Where are we going?” Seph asked her.
    “The usual.”
    “Thank God. I’m almost out.”
    Out. Out of cobalt. Just like Miriam. And being out was a bad thing. Very bad.
    These little fights she had with her father pushed her to need the blue elixir more and more. Or the blue powder. Either way. That was the nice thing about cobalt. It could be inhaled or injected. She liked options.
    Miriam pulled up the long, turnaround driveway at Persephone’s house. Within seconds, the door opened and Persephone darted out and hopped in.
    “Hurry before Father stops us,” Seph said, throwing a hasty look over her shoulder.
    Miriam was already hitting the gas and speeding back down the driveway.
    After getting back on the road, Miriam glanced over at Seph, who had been through a lot in the last few weeks.
    “How are you coping?” Miriam said. Persephone had been engaged to Arion Savakis for about a minute before finding out that Arion had already taken a mate. A male mate he worked with at AKM, from what she had heard. Talk about a blow to a girl’s confidence. Seph had taken the broken engagement pretty hard, especially since she had been dumped for another male.
    “I’m okay. Easy come, easy go, right?” Seph brushed her lustrous, blond hair off her face, but her easygoing attitude wasn’t fooling Miriam. She knew Seph was devastated at losing her chance to be mated, especially to Ari. Seph had really liked him.
    “Shit sucks,” Miriam said, hitting the highway.
    The two hadn’t talked much since that night. That night being when she had overdosed and Seph had been a happy bride-to-be for all of an hour.
    “Yeah, but what are you gonna do, right?” Seph shrugged and offered a weak smile. “What about you? I heard that tone in your voice when you talked about that guy. Eo, Io, or whatever his name is?” She laughed. “Ee-eye-ee-eye-oh!”
    Seph seemed too pleased with herself. “Or is that ‘heigh-ho, the derry-o’?”
    Miriam laughed. “You goof! Stop playing. That’s not funny.” She smacked Seph’s arm. “And it’s Io.” Her cheeks heated, her breath hitching over his name.
    “A-ha! I heard that. You do like him.”
    “What if I do? He sure beats anything my dad has ever presented me with.” Her father had introduced her to a lot of handsome, worthy young males over the years. Holiday parties and countless political functions had become a cattle parade of males all vying for her hand. She stiffened and scowled. Her father needed to mind his own business and leave finding a mate in her hands.
    He thought that if he introduced her to countless males, the one who would soul-mate her would magically appear, but that wasn’t how it worked. Not for her. She was in charge. She would choose. Her father’s only saving grace was that he didn’t just want to marry her off the way Seph’s parents had tried to do with her. Everyone saw how disastrous that had been. Poor Seph.
    Besides, Miriam wasn’t interested in taking a mate right now. She just wanted to have a little fun. She wanted to experiment, make out, touch and be touched—learn what this thing about the opposite sex was all about without having to worry about anyone getting arrested or killed for touching her. But her father wouldn’t even give her that much. At the times when she was able to break away from the ever-present watch of her father’s guards, it was never long before they eventually caught up to her, such as they had last night. She had been so close to tasting her first real kiss last night, but the guards had busted in and broken up the party before she’d had a chance to sample more than just the human’s blood.
    But the human