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The icy hipped through my hair, and at this altitude, it was round The alls of the nearby buildings were like hts around us The skyscraper jutted over fifty stories in the air, and ered overaround the edge felt like ice in e of the building Olivia hated it when I did this, because if I landed wrong, I nitude

ForI wasn’t afraid of heights exactly, but I had to overco My stomach twisted, and I hated how disoriented they hts dazzled the roads, and people looked like tiny dots walking below us

"Alice, will you stop that?" Olivia said tiredly

"In a ed well over six-hundred years, but she didn’t look a day over forty, and a very beautiful forty at that She owned the va ere in, and she lived in the penthouse suite on the top floor

Before she retired and bought the club, Olivia used to be a fantastic vaue vaerous, both to humans and other vampires, and a hunter is necessary to contain them

When I’d been attacked by a lycan vao, Olivia had come to my aide because she’d taken toreally ran, but she kneith Jack, so I didn’t worry about it

That attack had leftwith how helpless I had been Even as a vampire, I had nearly been killed and did little to help in the fight Milo al wouldn’t be enough I had to be strong enough to protect reed to start training et down from there, I won’t ith you anyh, I don’t suppose that’s asover our usual exercises, which weren’t that different fro It did involve so to use the strength I already had and otten her pinned with relative ease, and Olivia started co out of practice She hadn’t hunted a vaer tonight That’s all," I said I didn’t look back at her, but I felt her coone to Jane’s funeral yesterday, and this was my first ti with all of that?" Olivia leaned on the rail next toover the edge, but she didn’t say anythingher long black hair around us I kept my hair pulled back in a ponytail when I trained, but Olivia insisted that I’d have to learn to ith the length of my hair

"Where was she?" I asked, and Olivia didn’t immediately answer, so I looked over at her "Where was Jane when you saw her?"

"On Hennepin" She nodded down to the street below us "A block or so that way"

"Did you see her?" I squinted, staring at the sidewalk I was too far away to see ht up close, I doubt that there would be h to notice it was her" Olivia stepped back froe and walked towards the door She had found a new tactic to entice e - information

"How did you even know she was there?" I jumped down and hurried after her

"Someone died a block away from my club," Olivia looked at me seriously "It’s my job to knohen anybody dies, and take care of it"

"Did you take care of Jane?" I asked

"The police were already there when I found out about it There was nothing forfor me to do" She opened the door to the stairwell and started down them "From what I’ve heard, she didn’t have any bite marks on her So I don’t think it was a vaed down the steps after her

"I can’t say anything with certainty, except that the poor girl is dead," Olivia said bluntly and pushed open the door to her apartment

The penthouse was a le to it, le than a square, and all the outer walls were floor-to-ceiling s Marble floors ran throughout The steps opened in the center of her suite, going into her living roo room It all looked pretty too, but Olivia’s e and be comfortable She had a small kitchen off to the side, to feed theblood "If it’s not fresh, it’s not food" was her motto

In the center, to the back of the stairwell, was a squared off area It contained the elevator that could only go down to the baseh the vampire club

The rest of the walled off area were three lush bedrooms, all of them without any s One was her bedroom, and the other tere for the occasional company she had stay with her