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Chapter One

Boredoreatest hits as it went Or was that Hell? Saint would have to ask next ti incubus he liked to call Dad

The penthouse apart him with a silence that jarred his spine and set his teeth on edge No thoughts but his own No co a conversationalist as he could be, it was saying so that he was at loose ends But there it was

It had been like this ever since Tho to set new records for howup for air And Mac? He’d o on one of his I-live-for-eternity-and-I’m-so-alone walkabouts to God knehere before he had to deal with the repercussions of his decision

The filreed to do it It was his gift to Thoo, he knew But Saint had to wonder about the fallout for Mac with the elder vampires No one loved to keep a secret more than an old, thin-skinned blood sucker

Saint sighed Putting off Margo’s boss, the conniving Darcy Finch, and the producers anted to start filood at reedy people But without any new distractions, he was having a harder ti his dark side, the part that was restless The part that wanted to create the kind of havoc his hu to keep him from

He walked to the s, looking down at the city below Hollywood A deet into an endless amount of mischief in this town Even a half demon A man with his talents could own it all

But then, that sounded boring too He chuckled His desires didn’t lean toward consu usually satisfied by the RPG ga him to what it meant to be hu but His creation had taken on a life of its own, but it was a life he had total access to, and total control over It here he got to play

If only it were still enough

He should go search out Mac and find a way to fuck with hiht turn out the sa a woman to do more than nibble on Then neither of them would have any time for their roommate And there would be no one to keep Saint out of the dark

Despite that possibility, Saint wasn’t sorry Not that he’d gotten Tho, not that his roommate had decided to tell the world about hih the online weblog, Shifting Reality Daht it was a show An act The saame, instead of a piece of him

His own global therapy session That fact tickled him to no end

His online world was, for the most part, a recreation of one of the darker ti froround where ti, and only sin remained De school And it had not been pleasant Luckily the huh their experiences, he’d made a modicum of peace with it as ith a little help

If he hadn’t coo?—then he may have been lost to temptation It was Mac who showed him he didn’t have to fall prey to either side of his family tree He had a choice He could take his own path