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I broke into a cold sweat, and nized the change

"Are you okay?" Holden asked

He was a vampire, so small spaces didn’t mean much to him Desmond was the one who understood what the reactiona panic attack"

I sed the knot in my throat but didn’t speak, just kept h more hospital-white roons of the club We’ll be out soon, we’ll be out soon, we’ll be out soon, I chanted My wolf replied with a resounding growl

Holden inched away

Turns out rowl hadn’t been so internal

Deshtly rough palm on the back of my neck The sensation of his skin directly on ree or two He leaned close and whispered in my ear, "It’s fine" Tords, no promise of freedoh

There was no way I was getting through this next fullmy inner olf chained were behindwhat the rest of the building had been, the eleventh floor was a surprise

I was the first off the elevator, practically itching out of e, even after Des an eye on n I was about to slip It wasn’t ie forms Control was harder to ht it off for twenty-three years seemed miraculous and impossible to me now

We waited for Holden as the last off, and then stood shoulder-to-shoulder looking at a boring, typical wooden aparthbors are ho , dio"

Was this club so elite of New York so hard up for new ideas and the out in a crappy one-bedroo past the reale to me

The door for 11B was at the end of the hall, and we passed no other apart the way Where 11A had a nice walnut-colored door, the one for 11B had been painted a lacquered black, and the numbers were red The door had no handle, but there was a place for a key Without being asked to proceed, Holden inserted the key he’d gotten from Kellen’s friend and unlocked the entrance

When the door swung open, all I needed was a glihtclub This place reeked of nize soh the door, Holden reclai it behind us, and the moment it clicked the entire frame vanished Awesome My wolf stirred uneasily, but since ere in a wide-open space she wasn’t in a full panic yet I hoped to keep it that way

The rooer than the whole floor should have been, which was the first sign ic was at work here The walls were painted black with sheer red swags of fabric hanging froht a bloody quality

Incense scented the roorance that n hts our whole house reeked of patchouli while she tried to cover up the stink of whatever potion she was brewing It was hard to tell orse--the rotten-fruit s aroma of rain incense

I shook off the memory of home and took in the rest of the room At least the part I could e sections of the space, but they were nothing cos of teak and black-lacquered wood, they depicted dragons cli ers tossed overboard re, but this rooed the gaps between the sculpted pillars, and in their light I could see people through the gaps in the wood

The sculptures weren’t just pillars, they were the walls to other roo was this place?

A petite woman ide hips and a wider smile appeared in the entrance Where she’d come from I had no idea, because one second ere alone and the next she ith us Her short brown hair was cut in a smooth bob, and I was a bit surprised she was so…Caucasian

"Good evening, pilgririat her

"We haven’t had the pleasure of h-neck Chinese dress rustling as she edged towards us slowly "My name is Carla And now, I must ask… Whose key do you have, and how did you find us?"

Holden stepped forward, flipping the key casually around his index finger "I got--"