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"So," Sid said, taking a sidling step away fro to win this thing?"

"Sure, no question See the big guy over there?"

"I see a lot of big guys, Trav Just point hi adrenaline like prize fighters on cocaine, but I’ll just stick uy in the room for you You can scoop up ivealone over there, no drink in his hand"

Sid scanned the crowd in the direction Travis indicated and huffed an exasperated breath For fuck’s sake,to Travis in his less dra their power, kind of like ani the rut or souys pulled out his dick and start spraying everything in sight The hter died in her throat when her gaze fell on hi alone But his aloneness was more than a physical separation, it was an invisible wall that kept anyone froet the fuck away from me

"What’s his name?" she whispered, afraid he could hear her somehow from across the room

"Aden," Travis supplied, and his voice was quiet and drenched in aweand so else Worship?

"Do you know hi, buthe’s the one"

"I want to ht"

"I’ on his hand "Introduce ed "Introduce yourself, babe Just htened her hold on Travis’s fingers, though whether it was to keep herself fro with, she couldn’t have said Either way, it didn’t matter, because Trav had aanywhere he didn’t want to He shook his fingers free

"You’re on your own for this one," he said, "but take a tip from someone who knowsbe polite"

She scowled "I’ht now? Be honest"

She glanced over at him in surprise This was more serious than she’d ever seen Travis, and it o with the truth instead "My gut’s afraid of hiut Talk to hiut and watch what you say"

Sid flattened her lips in irritation, then quickly rolled the her looks instead of her brain, but first impressions mattered, and she’d use every weapon she had She found herself considering a dash to the restroo it for the act of cowardice it was This hat she’d been waiting for, what she’d spent the last severaltoward, a chance to meet someone who couldto be the next vampire lord, she couldn’t afford to blow it

She sucked in a breath and started across the roo frooers, both hu to join in the conversation, then et, studying hiuys in the roo Professor Dresner had offered the theory that what she called the va that turned an ordinary hues on its host for its own survival The es were the new vaht But there were additional, s that made vampires better hunters, made theested that vaer they were a vampire, the more time the symbiote had to work on them

Sid didn’t know if that was true or not, but she did know that there were a hell of a lot of gorgeous men here Far too many for it to be random

But even in a room filled with handsome men, Aden stood out He was beautiful and wild, an untaht It was a thin veneer of civility, and one that barelywith a predator’s gaze, a single breath away frolanced away, then back, and caught hiaze quickly, but not before she saw that he hadn’t bothered to do the same He stared at her unabashedly, his eyes so dark that at first she’d thought they were black But then the light caught theht, and she realized they were the deepest dark blue, with thick, black lashes that flirted with his sharp cheekbones on every lazy blink His wavy hair was as black as his lashes, a little too long and curling above the stiff white collar of his for, but saved from pure sensuality by a touch of cruelty that tilted his lips into a small smile as he eyed her approach