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Her eyes glittered with unshed tears "My life’s not very nor in this club or not?"
"We’ll go" Relief swept through him He didn’t have to lose her just yet But relief quicklyA mortal didn’t throay a year so easily She was up to soure it out
She could lose a year of her life? Toni was nulance in his direction Good grief, she’d kissed the man! She’d kissed a vampire And lived to tell about it
He hadn’t even tasted bloody Oh, bloody hell She could lose a year of her life? This was too much to take in all at once How could she have kissed hiht aside and concentrated on the other thing driving her crazy--losing a whole, freaking year of her life!
Dalossed over that part He ured she’d keep the job forever But she and Sabrina had plans Big plans, daht h his little spy camera? No wonder he’d called afterward He’d probably wanted to ht After all, she’d just locked lips with a vampire And what lips The man sure kne to kiss Of course, he’d had several centuries to perfect his technique
He’d been so sweet and apologetic afterward Why couldn’t he be mortal? She could fall for hiain Could she fall for him as a vampire?
He led her into a dark alley "The entrance is hidden, so mortals willna try to enter"
She spotted a red door in the diuard He nodded at Ian, then opened the door
"Wait a minute" The bouncer raised a beefy hand His beady eyes focused on Toni, and his nostrils flared "She can’t coo" Ian looped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her inside the club
Loud hts tehtclub It looked a lot like a mortal one She rotated so the caes back to Carlos’s apartroup of scantily clad ladies pressed close to the stage where a hunky guy gyrated, his sparkly red thong glittering under the lights Well, Carlos would enjoy seeing that Other than the male dancer, most everyone else was female Even the bartender and DJ o at the tables and drinking solasses Blood, no doubt, but would a picture of theht look like a picture of regular people drinking red wine
"Can I get ye so to drink?" Ian smiled when she made a face "They have a few nonbloody drinks"
"A Diet Coke then I have a final tomorrow" And she was on a mission now, so she needed her wits about her "I can’t stay very long I should be home by ten"
"I can teleport ye home whenever ye like" He led her toward the tables
A female suddenly materialized next to the bar with a cell phone by her ear She hung up, then dashed to the stage
"What was that?" Toni turned to follow her ht everything
"Va in for the first time," Ian explained "They use the phone as a sensory beacon to ht place"
"Oh" She wondered if she’d reacted fast enough to catch the Vamp in the act "Is there a ladies’ room?"
"Aye, over there" He touched her shoulder "Be careful"
"I thought all these Vamps were bottle drinkers"
"They are, but after a few Blisskys and Bleers, they could be drunk and not behave thereat" As she strode toward the restroo cast her way, and the slight flaring of nostrils as each Va appetizer
She entered the ladies’ roo in front of the iant flat-screen TV Two cameras on the ere aiy was the only way the Vamps could see themselves
The blonde turned toward her and wrinkled her turned-up nose "Good heavens, how did you get in here?" she asked with a snooty British accent
"It was a I pushed on the door, and it opened"
"I wasn’t referring to this powder rooel," the blonde Vamp continued "I’m one of the owners of this establishment, and we do not welcohness" Toni refrained froht this was a free country"
"What’s going on?" A redhead exited a stall "Hey, Paet in here?"
"That’s what I’d like to know," Pao a million times not to let any lared at the arrogant Vauard, which hed "Ian would never allow a feuard at all"
"Did you say Ian MacPhie?" the redhead asked "Isn’t he that gorgeous guy on Single in the City?"
"Oh my God!" A brunette burst frolanced at Toni
"Can I meet him?"
"I want to meet him, too" The redhead approached Toni "Can you setlike an appetizer to a pie of jealousy jabbed at her, but she steeled herself against it The kiss had been a mistake Ian was not her type She preferred men ere alive, dammit So she had to accept the fact that he would pursue these Va princess One of the him from now on
"I know Ian personally," Pauard anesti’s harem"
The brunette turned to Pamela "Is he really that handsome?"
"And rich?" the redhead added
"Come with me I shall introduce you" Pamela aimed a superior smirk at Toni as she sauntered toward the door "You know I have an interesting theory regarding Ian"
"What is it?" the brunette asked as she trailed behind
"I believe he’s a five-hundred-year-old virgin," Pa," the redhead hter as the three women left the room
"You didn’t wash your hands!" Toni called after theritted her teeth How could Ian prefer them? But at least the room was ee of the cameras and dialed Carlos
She could lose a year of her life The thought kept haunting her It wasn’t fair, dammit! These Vamps lived for centuries, while her life ay too short How could they steal a year froet the shot of a Va here?"
"Menina, you’re at the club?"
"Yes Aren’t you watching?"
"No, I’ll watch the video later Right now I’ to the Proctors’ house?"
"Don’t worry They’ll never know I’ out their financial records Uncle Joe has a bad habit of going to Atlantic City"
"How do you know?"
"Credit cards leave a trail, girlfriend"