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Chapter One

Darius looked around the club, taking in the tee, half-naked bodies on the dance floor Screa leather and rees in violent crime

Darius and his coht in

Except they actually were killers

"So you're really going to do this?" Tohrment asked him

Darius glanced across the shallow table The other vampire's eyes met his own "Yeah I am"

Tohrris showed "You're crazy, D"

"You should know"

Tohr the bar You want to take an innocent girl, who has no idea what the hell she's getting into, and put her transition in the hands of someone like Wrath That's whacked"

"He isn't evil In spite of the way he looks" Darius finished his beer "And show a little respect"

"I respect the hell out of him But it's a bad idea"

"I need him"

"You sure about that?"

A woh boots, and a bustier littered from behind two pounds of mascara, and she worked her walk as if her hips were double-jointed

Darius gave her a pass Sex was not on his ht

"She's hter, Tohr"

"She's a half-breed, D And you kno he feels about hurand that up around him"

Darius lifted his hand to catch their waitress's eye and pointed at his e to let another one of my children die Not if there's a possibility I can save her And anyway, there's no telling whether she'll even go through the change She could end up living a happy life, never knowing about my side It's happened before"

And he hoped his daughter would be spared Because if she went through her transition, if she ca to be hunted as they all were

"Darius, if he does it at all, he'll do it because he owes you Not because he wants to"

"I'll take hiet him"

"But what are you giving her? He's about as nurturing as a sawed-off, and that first tih, even if you've been prepared Which she hasn't"

"I' to talk to her"

"And how's that going to go? You're just going to walk up to her and say, 'Hey, I know you've never seen uess what? You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vao to Disneyland!' "

"I hate you right now"

Tohr under black leather "You know I got your back I' you should reconsider" There was a heavy pause "Maybe I could do it"

Darius shot hiet back into your house after the fact? Wellsie will stake you through the heart and leave you for the sun, my friend"

Tohrment winced "Good point"

"And then she'll co for me"

Both males shuddered

"Besides" Darius leaned back as the waitress put their drinks down He waited until she left, even though hard-core rap was puerous ti happens to me - "

"I'll take care of her"

Darius clapped his friend on the shoulder "I know you will"

"But Wrath is better" There was no jealousy in the remark It was a statement of fact