The smell in the room was horrendous, but that wasn't why I felt a headache coming on. What did any of it matter when I was planning to trade my life for Tige's?

We stayed like that for ten minutes with Marcus being as quiet as anyone could with a melting hand.

Tyler came back into the room. Alone.

She looked at me. Marcus had enslaved all of his employees. The other vamp was no angel, but he hadn't enslaved anyone. Mandy wanted to go to the safe house, and she ...