the trade. And if a rogue vampire tried to kill her, she wasn’t going to let him just because she didn’t have a list of rogues she was allowed to eliminate!
She was halfway surprised a bouncer in the club hadn’t tossed her out on her ear already. But she suspected they were dying to know why she was here. Like…to take down one of them? That would be suicide.
“Huntress,” a vampiress hissed at her through clenched teeth, her vampire canines fully extended.
Selena pitched a perfectly fake smile at the woman whose red curls were stacked high on her head, her green eyes crystalline daggers. Selena brushed past the vamp, bumping her aside, which prompted another hiss. Selena wasn’t going to be intimidated.
Selena continued walking toward the bar with purpose and an air of ease, even though deep inside, her heart beat way too fast, while she continued to look for any sign that one of the blood bonds watching her might be Twilight.
If Selena located her sister, Rosa—who could do no wrong when it came to hunting renegade vampires—maybe, Selena wouldn’t be so ostracized by her family. But Selena wasn’t certain whether Rosa was in harm’s way or if she was just being her usual inconsiderate self, letting everyone think she’d disappeared without a trace, not of her own free will. Since her sister had vanished three times in the past two months, then sheepishly returned home after a hunter tryst didn’t work out, Selena shouldn’t have been worried this time either.
But she was. The fact that Twilight, whoever or whatever she was, had passed on the note to Selena’s friend that she knew something about Rosa’s disappearance set Selena’s nerves on edge. No one else bothered to look for her sister this time. Not her friends, family, associates, no one, because they all assumed Rosa was missing on purpose once again. Don’t cry wolf came to mind.
“Huntress,” another vampiress hissed, stepping in front of her, blocking her path. This one’s hair was black as a darkened well, and her ebony eyes flickered with flame.
Thank God the males didn’t seem to be annoyed with Selena’s presence like the females did, but instead seemed highly intrigued. Which, come to think of it, could be a bad thing.
With determination, Selena steeled her back. She was here now, and she wasn’t running away. How would that look? Like she was afraid of vampires. Which she was not.
She sidestepped the vampiress and was sure if she looked behind her, the woman’s gaze would be boring into the back of Selena’s head. The rest of the vampires moved out of her path as if she were the queen walking down the red carpet to her throne.
Sighing heavily, she was sure her human friend, Tara Green, had gotten her information wrong. Selena glanced around the crowd, looking at individual female faces, all eyes on her, no one saying a word, though they might have been telepathically communicating up a storm with one another. One of the women watching might be this Twilight person. Everyone seemed unduly interested in Selena, blood bonds and vampires alike, so she couldn’t tell if any of them might be the woman. What if she had changed her mind and decided it was too dangerous to tell Selena the truth? At least, while she was among the vamps?
Tara probably hadn’t even known this place was a vampire dance club. Then again, maybe a vampire had brainwashed her into luring Selena here. Which sent a trickle of dread down her spine. Was she being led into the vampire’s lair for some dark purpose and this had nothing to do with locating her sister?
It wouldn’t be the first time. And she was certain it wouldn’t be the last. Vampires lived so long, they often needed a diversion in their lives to break up the monotony. Any huntress who hunted alone and by her own rules was fair game. Was that what she was? A mouse for the long-fanged cats to play with?
Glancing around the large building that seemed small because so many people were crammed in here, the fragrance of perfumes and colognes wafting in the air, she kept a watchful eye out for both someone who might be Twilight and any vampire threat that might occur. She wasn’t sure what she would do if a vampire decided to attack her. Not when she was without weapons. She couldn’t hope for anyone to come to her rescue if she began to fight one of