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“What?” she questions with her eyebrows raised.

“Not, sir. I’m Noab.” I stand too. I can’t help it. The last thing I want her to do is leave. Her breath hitches again and her heart beats even faster. “Stay, please. Don’t let me run you away.”

Hearing myself beg a woman shocks me but also confirms why my blood is heating like I just consumed fire and my fangs keep threatening to appear. She’s the one, my mate, mine. My draw to her is instinctive, like nothing I’ve ever experienced.

“Um…Y-y-you’re not,” she stammers breathlessly. “We’re just going to a table.” She steps back then turns to her friend. “Let’s go, Shae.”

“Why?” Shae sighs.

“Be…cause. Let’s go. I see an empty table.”

Enani practically drags her friend off the stool and rushes away from me. I don’t follow. My entire being wants to, badly, but I don’t. If she’s turned off or scared of me in any way, I’ll never get her and that’s not a fuckin’ option if she is, in fact, my mate. I fall back and just watch them journey to a table furthest from the bar.

“Bitch, why would you leave that fine ass man?” her friend asks incredulously once they sit.

“Vampire, not a man,” she utters, then takes a huge gulp of her drink. “But God, he is gorgeous,” she adds and I smile.

I grab my drink from the bar, finish it, then close my tab. I leave a few bills to cover Enani and her friend’s next round of drinks then leave Blood Lust. I didn’t feed here tonight but I’m good because I met her, my mate. I’ll definitely find her again because we are destined to meet. Besides, her scent and smile are etched in my mind.

Chapter

Five

Oh my God.

Shit!

My heart was going to burst out of my chest next to him… the sexy ass vampire. I had to get away, and fast.

His massive frame towered over my five foot-six inches and I forgot how to breathe every time my eyes met his dark orbs rimmed in red. Noab is gorgeous. There’s no other word to describe him. Deep chocolate skin, muscular inked arms, tall, sculpted frame, and a too handsome face with a perfectly trimmed beard.

As soon as he leaves the club, I finish my drink and wave a server over. I need another.

Laughing, Shae says, “And you thought my shot was too much. That man has your ass flustered. Take a deep breath.”

“Bitch, I’m trying,” I admit, then exhale. “What the hell was happening? My whole body was going crazy. My heart was beating fast as hell and I truly couldn’t catch my breath. Plus, my damn clit was throbbing.” I laugh at my last words because really what the fuck was that?

My body has never responded so carnally and visibly around any man, human or supernatural. He’s not the first vampire or supernatural I’ve encountered. Hollow Grove is populated with them, werewolves, and witches. We all coexist but this, him, was different, really different. I don’t know what the hell just happened.

“I understand. Trust me. I saw him coming over to us and damn near slid off my stool but he was on you. His eyes never left you.” She downs her shot then fixates her eyes on me, glaring. “So why the hell did we leave the bar? You see he left after we did.”

“I just told you why. My body was acting the fuck up.”

“In a good fucking way though. You don’t run from that. You jump on that; climb his fine ass. Shit, he might just be what you need to stop Langston’s roots on you.”

“Stop saying that shit. Roots are serious and scary. I don’t even want to think about nothing like that,” I say seriously. The whole point of agreeing to come out with her tonight was for us to move past her crazy ass theory.

“Alright,” she concedes. “I’ll let it go. Tonight is all about us and these sexy ass vampires because I’m loving everything about this club.”

“It’s a vibe for sure. The black and red, the black light, all of it is so sexy. But baby, I’m not fucking in public with no one, not even a fine as hell vampire. That’s a hard no for me.”

Blood Lust is exactly what I’ve heard about it. It’s a whole ass experience and I definitely see why we had to wait in that long ass line for almost an hour and pay a hundred dollars just to get in here. The theme is sexy and alluring and the entire space exudes it.

The floors are blood red and glass, the lighting is dark and sensual, and the walls are black, giving the feel of a private room. Even though at least a hundred people occupy every inch of the space on this level, it still feels intimate. The bar has to be my favorite though. It’s made of tinted glass, crescent-shaped, and surrounded by black, comfortable, leather stools. The postcard menus are matte black with a deep red and embossed script detailing all the vampire themed drinks.

“Well, I can’t lie. It’s fun watching them though.” Shae nods toward the couple fucking just two tables over with a big ass smile on her face. “I may not be brave enough to do that but I’m definitely going to let one of them feed on me. I just have to try it, at least once.”

“Are you sure?” I ask.