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Mr Rain let himself out and rounded the town car to stand next to me He didn’t have the saainst the sling ertips, even through the leather ofthrill up roin

The unexpected intensity of the lust brought on by such a small touch terrified me Certainly this wasn’t nor out of control in any way

Sandwiched between Des at our rear, there was no easy way out We walked towards the building that Donized its high-gloss black exterior and the cascading wall fountains on either side of the twelve-foot glass doors The building had been featured in both Architectural Digest and an episode of Lifestyles of the Fabulously Wealthy I had only seen it in passing, on

Rain Rain was the name of this six-star beast of a hotel, where rooht and only went higher froan to dawn on ether I knew enough to know that when I fit in the last few bits, I wasn’t going to like the big picture

A door unfazed to see one s flanked by a pack of , Mr Rain Will you be needing the car again tonight?"

"That remains to be seen, Carl Please have it at the ready," Rain instructed The dooruts "Tell Melvin to ensure that no phone calls are forwarded to the apartment until further notice"

We crossed the massive lobby in a few quick strides It didn’t allow me much time to marvel at the slick black and silver details, but I did notice that the interior walls, much like those outside, were made of black marble waterfalls The polished elevator doors slid open, and I was ushered inside the mirrored box

Elevators were a conundru encased in a tight space, as the undead are prograh I had never been inside a coffin ht, dark areas The oft-overlooked olf part of ed to claw at the doors until I was allowed out

It felt like we rose for an eternity Mr Rain’s hand slid under the base of razed my bare skin I wanted to slap him for his forwardness until I realized that the tension had completely drained from me just at the thrill of direct content His faintest touch had soothed the beast within My as no longer panicked

Boy did I ever have questions for this guy

I’d met olves in the past and had killed two out of necessity, but none of them had created this surreal wave of tranquility in me

"Who are you, anyway?" The words slipped froe lifted frolance

"I am Lucas Rain," he said, as if it were just any nor hiht inhis true identity How stupid could I have been toThis was the Lucas Rain, an intensely private billionaire real-estate ht the Boston Red Sox as a twenty-first birthday gift to hie Six only published blurry photos of him in baseball caps or hooded coats

Models constantly insisted on having bedded hih to establish where he kept his perree on was he was a vigorous and gifted lover, and never asked for second dates

Conjecture andabout the Rain family Lucas’s father, Jeremiah, and his father before him, had each been just as secretive and shut-in as Lucas noas The only Rain descendant who relished the spotlight was Lucas’s sister, Kellen, who put the Hilton sisters to shahost, nothing known about hi side by side with him, and if his touch was any indication, he was host I’d ever encountered

I also knew the reason he cherished his secrecy as deeply as I didthat Lucas had kept hidden fro eyes of humankind for his whole life, and I was already in on the secret

For a olf native to New York state and specifically New York City proper, the name of Lucas Rain was held in reverence for a completely different reason, one that would never be published in the tabloid colu of the East

Chapter Seven

The elevator doors opened with a sigh, and I stumbled out away fro to see as about to unfold I had not previously been afraid forto me that if anyone wanted to make me disappear with no questions asked, it was Lucas Rain He had the wealth and the power to o unnoticed

"Why are you afraid? That’s not the reaction I’ to wrong me I don’t even know you, so I don’t think you have a reason to fear enuinely puzzled

The doors had opened onto a private floor, and I was all alone with these un offeredheadshots would kill olves But thehow easy it had been for hiainst three creatures whose individual skills nearly equaled e olf, but I wasn’t stronger than three male wolves in their prime I reached down into the depths of my psyche and tried to yank ray hues of the warning daere painting the sky, and the vampire part of me, for all intents and purposes, was dead to the world Fuck That left iven me