Matias POV

“How much for the girl?” I asked Rochelle, the woman in charge of the coat check.

I’d seen this girl walking all the way across the room. I should have been enthralled with the shifting show going on in front of me, but I wasn’t. I wasn’t even here to buy one of these shifter puppets that humans found pleasure in collecting. In fact, this whole trafficking ring repulsed me, as a shifter myself.

But, this girl, ...