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.As I told you before, it’s a mixed club, which means plenty of lowbloods looking for a good time and a handful of highbloods slumming it and looking for women, trouble, or both.Don’t act shocked by anything, and for God’s sake, don’t stare.I don’t want the wrong vamps taking notice of you.Anura was never one to hide in the shadows, so let’s hope we find her quickly.”She did hope.If she was risking her life by heading into a place full of people who might want to eat her, it would be nice if it weren’t for nothing.And anything that delayed her meeting with Arsinöe the vampire queen was welcome, since that was an event in her life she still hadn’t really wrapped her mind around.Still, this concubine business…“So I’m supposed to, what, make goo-goo eyes at you and walk around like I’ve been partially lobotomized?”He looked irritated.“That’s what a good thrall looks like, yeah.And if I could get one to work on you, believe me, I would.But as it is, you’re stuck acting.Think you can manage it?”If he could get one to work on me… Lily remembered that intense pull she’d felt toward Ty that first night, the fuzzy-brained compulsion to throw herself into his arms that had taken her completely by surprise.She guessed that was what he was talking about, along with the fact that she seemed able to throw it off, though barely, where he was concerned.Damien had tried and she’d felt nothing.What he’d done to her this morning probably counted as some sort of mild thrall, but he’d needed her full cooperation, and it had hardly been mind control.Still, she’d need to be on her guard.Just in case.“If there’s one thing I can manage,” Lily said, “it’s acting.” It might not have been in her blood, but it had been a big part of her life for a lot of years.And not in a good way.But though she would never admit it, a night spent fawning over Ty wouldn’t be much of a chore to manage.At all.She might even get to paw at him a little.Oh, she was a sick, sick girl.Lily hunched her shoulders a little and sighed, which Ty seemed to take for resignation.That was fine with her.“Come on, then,” he said.“It’s the next alley over.”She started to follow.“Don’t worry about me,” she said.“I’m not that noticeable.I’ll blend.”Ty didn’t look at her, but his voice was grim.“The hell you will.”chapter NINEMABON WAS HIDDEN out of necessity, and it was cheap because its patrons insisted it be and grungy because it always had been.The club’s only entrance was down a small alley, through a nondescript door.A flight of stairs led down to what had once been the basement of a sprawling old building from the turn of the century, and despite its questionable reputation, the place was always packed with vampires looking for one of two things: blood or trouble.Often, the unwary found both.Lily was plenty wary by the time she and Ty pushed open a heavy metal door and entered the cavernous, dimly lit club.He’d told her not to stare, but it was hard not to be a little shocked at first glance.No wonder he’d chuckled over the human wannabes up above.Because it looked to her like vampires, real ones, were far more apt to make wardrobe choices as unobtrusive as her own.There was only one noticeable difference between them and the rest of humanity: these people were freaking gorgeous.Eyes that shimmered and glowed faintly in the half-light turned toward them as they walked in, full of little more than polite curiosity.Two bouncers, muscular and intimidating, lounged just inside the entrance.One wore a sleeveless T-shirt, and a tribal tattoo, intricate and beautiful, coiled all the way down his arm.His eyes, a luminous blue, flickered over Lily with interest, and she saw him take note of the ribbon around her neck.“Evening, beautiful,” he said with a lazy half smile.“Welcome to Mabon.”“She’s mine,” Ty growled beside her, drawing the bouncer’s attention away from her.Lily flushed at the hot possession she heard in those words
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