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  You only told stuff like that to strangers when you wanted a friend. “Yeah.” I leaned back, feeling the running washer churn against me. “It’s even worse to be lonely when it seems like everyone else is having fun.”

  “Exactly,” he said, nodding hard. He looked at me a moment too long, and then nervously looked away. He was interested. I was interested. Under his attention my hunger had perked up its ears and trotted over. But this was my own apartment complex – and I could make it a day without sex.

  I rocked forward. “Try Bastille. Or the Phoenix. You’ll make friends in no time.”

  His face flushed a little and he looked down. “Thanks.”

  “You’re welcome,” I said, and tried not to graze him as I left, which was hard when the room was so small, but I managed, walking back to my apartment with an inconvenient hard on.

  * * *

  I did more research on the Pack on my own, and tried to figure out tonight’s plan. I’d seen what Wade looked like last night – I’d cruise through the bar, make sure he was there, and then stalk him. Once I got him alone, I’d make him fess up, and then the punishing would begin. I stretched out the fingers of my right hand then pulled them into a fist, making a satisfying crunch.

  The timer I’d set on my phone rang and I walked back down the hall. Just thinking about drinking blood again made me hungry. Paco’s blood was excellent, but there was something to be said for the blood of a complete stranger, with their frightened adrenaline still singing inside.

  Then I turned the corner into the laundry and found Florida standing there.

  “Hey,” he said, looking sheepish.

  “Hey,” I responded. He wanted my attention – now he had it.

  “I, uh, saw the setting on your washer. I knew when you’d be back.”

  I tilted my head to hide a smirk. “You lay in wait for guys often?”

  “Only when they look like you.” He dared to meet my gaze. I stood still, considering. I’d been thinking about blood all the long walk down here and I’d had to fight down my earlier hard on. But this place was where I slept – where I died. I needed to keep it safe. Even if I could scent the sharp hopeful smell of precum in the air – and knew that he’d been thinking about me for the past hour, too. “I’m sorry,” he began, taking my silence the wrong way. “I shouldn’t have –“

  “I don’t mind,” I said quickly. I didn’t want my reluctance to possibly chase him back into a closet. “But –“

  “You have a boyfriend.”

  “No.” It wasn’t too late – and everything about him reminded me of the sun that I’d lost, the way his skin shone, the blonde streaks in his hair. It made me want to do things to him, mad things, wild things, to see if I could take the sun from him and pull it into me. And as if sensing my wavering resolve, he stepped closer. “I have plans,” I said.

  “I could be fast,” he promised.

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  Table of Contents

  Dark Ink Tattoo

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

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