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Co but dead ends, we left the station with Cedes pro, but I wasn’t holding out too much hope I rarely found my answers by human means

When I walked intoroouilt-stricken to still have Holden with hts Lucas had seen me with the vampire, and I knehat it looked like I didn’t knohat it was, but I knehat it looked like

Lucas appeared a lot better than he had when he barged into Holden’s apart a clean blue polo shirt and stain-free jeans He smelled spicy, like all olves, but different somehow I used to love how unique his smell was Noanted it out ofall polite for into people’s apartular basis now?"

"I had a key"

"Whose key?" I’d given hiot it back

"Desmond’s," he confessed The way he said it made me believe Desmond wasn’t aware his key had been borrowed Lucas tried to look sheepish, but I wasn’t buying it He did all sorts of unacceptable bullshit and tried to act apologetic after, but he never stopped doing the wrong thing He hadn’t learned a single daiveness is easier than asking periveness

"Give me the key"

Lucas didn’t argue and put the key ring intoto hand it over to hiled his chin at Holden

My eyes narrowed, and e was hot and unstoppable when my lips parted "He already has one, and he uses it frequently" If rabbed Holden’s belt and tugged his body close toLucas a glare that invited him to protest

Bless Holden’s perverted soul, he didn’t dispute my territorial claim on him The problem hat I’d done was that Holden was a shark, and I’d just dumped a bucket of chum in front of him He hated Lucas and he wanted iven hi for the ulti

I knew I’d made a mistake theback

"Oh yes," Holden said with a hot, rin that made my heart feel a bit wobbly "Secret loves it when I slip through her back door late at night"

I fought against the snort trying to escapesht to a Ferrari driver With eyes only for Lucas, Holden jerked , he ood use

It wasn’t the first time I’d kissed Holden, and unfortunately it showed

When the vaer, too-showy kiss, I returned the eers in his soft shirt and letting a shunnecessarily theatrical He tangled his fingers init low to cup my bottom When I opened ed his exposed fangs overever so pleased with his at Lucas "I coot you were here"

I looked at uilty about what I’d just done It was a cruel way to stick the point home, but he had to understand I wasn’t his anyain If he had to believe I was screwing around with Holden toshort of letting the vaain

I still felt sleazy

"What do you want?" I asked, when the bristling silence had stretched into the reallared at us, his skin red with bottled frustration, blue eyes shiny

"I’ for Kellen"

"Since yesterday?" It had been only a day since he’d rudely wokenfor a status report

"I wanted to be sure you were taking ht to check"

Noas ain "Thank you," I snapped

He didn’t knohat to do with that "Thank you?"