Have a snippet. No, I'm not setting it up, you know the drill by now. Yes, it's out of order. Most of them are these days.
"What the hell were you doing in my apartment, and how did you disappear from it like that?"
"Hey, I've never been in your damn apartment. Are you kidding?" The Janni lookalike crossed her arms. "That'd be way too risky."
"Oh, good, that one was a hallucination," Ben muttered. "Nice to know."
"The others haven't been, though." Angeline poked the other vampire in the chest with her forefinger. "So tell me who asked you to stalk him, and I won't stake you and feed your bones to my wolf."
"No skin off my nose." She shrugged and pointed. "Those guys over there paid me to do it."
Ben's entire body stiffened when he saw who it was, and Angeline sucked in a breath. West, with two friends. Oh, god. That idiot probably had no idea that his game of Taunt the Wolf had suddenly become deadly serious. Hair sprouted on Ben's shoulders and his eyes turned amber. He reached up and snapped the silver lock off the collar, ignoring the scent of burning flesh, and then methodically unbuckled it. Bar patrons began backing away as the collar swung back and forth from the end of the leash Angeline still held in her hand.
"Ben, no!" She missed her grab at his arm. "There's no way you come back from this--"
"Don't care," was his unruffled rejoinder.
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