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Because Andrew’s mind, no, his world, had been blown wide open. Now he wasn’t sure if he even wanted the job, but Felix was right. The money was too damn good to pass up.

Felix handed him a scrap of paper. “Here’s my phone number. Call me if you have any more questions or you get yourself into trouble in that house. Eleazar was telling you the truth, Andrew. Don’t stray from your room.”

After Andrew took the paper and shoved it into his pocket, Felix and Mr. Badass walked away, leaving Andrew standing there reeling. He slipped into the driver’s seat and just sat there, staring past the windshield, though his mind was too preoccupied to see anything.

He was too busy wigging out. Vampires. Holy fuck! Vampires. That word wouldn’t stop circling around his brain. “Get it together,” he told himself after blowing out a few breaths. “You need this job, even if it’s gotten a hundred times more dangerous.”

Even after Felix telling him so much, Andrew was still attracted to Eleazar. He needed his head examined after what he’d just learned, but there was no denying what he felt. But was his attraction and the pay worth it?

Yes, it was. Andrew would get out from under his debt, and then maybe, after all his bills were paid off and he had a nice nest egg, he would quit. A few months at most, right? Andrew could handle a few months, just as long as Maximus left him alone and no one tried to snack on him.

He laughed, though it lacked humor. “Now what Eleazar said makes sense. I really am going to need a straitjacket after this. If I’m still alive…”

Andrew just had to make sure he followed Eleazar’s rule of staying in his room unless called upon. Human servants—how he wished he could give Eleazar an earful for making him think he was his personal assistant instead of a fucking servant—weren’t supposed to be fed from.

And he was going to make sure that rule stuck. Andrew wasn’t anyone’s feeding tube, and he’d be damn if he opened a vein for anyone, including the oldest, most powerful vampire in Ridgeway.

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“Do you think I did the right thing?” Felix asked Rayne. “Maybe I shouldn’t have told him everything.”

Rayne disagreed. “Andrew needed to know what he was getting himself into,” he said. “He’s human, and he’s stepping into a coven filled with vampires. It’s only fair that he knows the truth and the dangers that come with it.”

Rayne thought about exploiting the human since Andrew had just started this job but decided against the idea. Andrew was deep in vampire territory, and if he was found to be a spy, that would get him killed. Rayne couldn’t do that. He was a hunter, someone who protected human life.

He may hate Eleazar with a passion, and he wished all the vampires in Ridgeway would walk into the sun, but Rayne knew not all vampires were bad. Some just wanted to live their lives, not associate with any coven. It just didn’t sit well with him that Andrew had gone blindly into the job.

Why couldn’t Eleazar have hired someone who’d already known about their world? And Maximus? Rayne wasn’t familiar with that vampire, but Felix clearly knew who the guy was. If he harmed Andrew, Rayne was going to hunt him down and rip out his heart.

Not that he held any love for the human. Rayne just hadn’t liked the fact that Andrew had seemed so…innocent. So naïve.

He just hoped that Andrew was smart enough to keep his wits about him and get out of any dangerous situation he might find himself in.

He and Felix had warned him. That was all they could do for now.

Chapter Three

“Is something the matter?” Eleazar asked when he noticed how badly Andrew was squirming in his chair.

“No, nothing at all,” Andrew said a little too quickly.

Eleazar could smell the lie pouring off the human. Something had happened today. Eleazar just knew it. Although Andrew had been nervous last night when he’d interviewed him, this was different.

Eleazar curled his lip. “I will not stand for lies, Andrew.”

The guy swallowed. “I wasn’t going to say anything. Okay, so I was going to tell Shayde when I saw him, but I haven’t seen him yet, but Maximus came to my room and he was pretty aggressive.”

Eleazar sat forward. “Did he touch you?”

“No, but he made it clear that he wasn’t going to be ignored, like he was Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. He kind of wigged me out.”

Eleazar was going to kill Maximus. His coven member had always been a little loose with the rules, but this was going too far. “I apologize for his actions. He will be dealt with, severely.”

Especially if Eleazar found out that Andrew was his mate.

“Oh god, no.” Andrew paled. “The last thing I want is to be hated here. I don’t want him to know that I snitched on him to the boss.”

“I promise you that he won’t know it was you,” Eleazar said firmly. “He will be taken care of, but I need you to understand something, Andrew.”

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