“Do you know those guys?” The bartender cleaned a glass in front of me then he pushed his wireframe glasses up his nose. He was a cute little thing. His dark hair flopped over his forehead in a charming kind of way. His body was long and thin. He wasn’t the typical bartender but he had his own charm.
I nodded. “Yeah, they’re staying near our beach house. We have seen them a few times when we have gone out.” I didn’t know if it was smart to give up the part that we were traveling together. I didn’t know how different we actually looked to the rest of the world. I couldn’t risk it.
“Good, I didn’t want to have to call security on them. One of them is staring at you like you’re his next meal.” The bartender’s cheek turned pink as he realized what he had said.
Rafe’s eyes were glowing gold now and I wondered what had happened to make him act this way. Maybe he had scented the vampire too.
Oh, he definitely did.Nalia purred with approval in my head.
Mav shimmied his way to me at the bar and held his hands out to me. I put my little hands in his much bigger ones and he pulled me from the stool. He spun me around on the floor before he pulled me to his chest. The song was a slower one and I was surprised he had beat Rafe to me. My heart sank slightly. Except, Rafe wasn’t a dancer. It made sense that Mav had beaten him because he had probably never planned to sweep me off of my feet. Which was fine, I didn’t want him to be something that he wasn’t but I did like to dance. I didn’t know why I hadn’t gotten on the floor before then. My body moved to the slow beat and I sighed.
“They’re all pissed at Tracey, by the way.” He dipped me back briefly before he pulled me back up.
“Because she took a vampire home?” I didn’t understand the animosity toward the other creature.
He sucked his cheek in. “Yeah, we tend to stay away from their kind.”
This was news to me. “Okay?”
“Our races went to war a couple hundred years ago. Some of the vampires and wolves still haven’t gotten over it. I don’t know why but they refuse to play nice still to this day. Bars and clubs are usually neutral ground for all races to intermingle. Rafe is just angry that she chose a vampire to get back at Knox with.”
“Wait, what?”
Mav puffed his cheeks out. “After you and Tracey got into it today and we were talking…” He paused and pinched his lips together. “Tracey went after Knox and they got into a massive fight. She told him that she didn’t know why he came back at all and he should have stayed gone. I don’t know what happened between them but she just screamed in his face that she wished he would disappear. We all know she was speaking out of her anger but all it made Knox do was retaliate back. He smiled at her and told her that he would love nothing more than to eat her heart.”
A snort escaped me. “Oh, I’m sure that went well.”
Mav grimaced. “She threw sand in his eyes like a damn child.”
I pulled my hand out of his to run it down my face in horror. “You’re lying. No wonder he avoided her for the rest of the day. But why would she still be trying to get back at him? She’s the one that threw sand in his face.”
Mav shrugged. “It’s only a theory. She turned down every single guy in here until Knox got on the floor to dance.”
He was right. I knew that was her angle. I had seen it on her face. She hated how much fun he was having. I hoped she got what she was looking for.
