Alex DeMarco
**ROMANY**
What th fuck? Isn't anyone going to answer?
*Ping* Ruby-
Just come in bitch. It's unlocked.
Oh. Fuck. Okay.
I lifted my hand up to the gleaming gold handle and turned. The moment I stepped past the door, the damn thing swung shut with an automatic grace and a definitive click. The black of the open hallway and the floor to ceiling macabre marble seemed to swallow every ounce of light in the space. Shuttering me in complete darkness.
"Hello?" I called out. I couldn't see a damned thing. Nothing.
"Ro!" Ruby's voice sounded on my left, down a short lonely hallway. I instinctively turned that direction, taking a small step and triggering the sensored track lighting along the floor. *Well, thank fuck.*
long marble lobby leading to another room on the
of Ruby's voice, I rounded the corner to find her lounging along a large half
hidden behind a heavy mahogany desk. He wore the look of someone who is *never* kept waiting. Full lips in a half frown, he lifted his chin in my direction.
gaze
glowered at him, turning my attention toward Ruby
cousin," Ruby said. "Long
out, noting the narrowing of DeMarco's gaze at the
looked exactly the same. Gorgeous and deadly. Her short cap
leapt from the couch to gather me in a tight welcoming hug and led me further into the
four horse carriage. I have *never* been this
to glare at her employer. "Somebody needed a
to a blush. Convincing? Really? I'm not a damn beggar!
my cousin. "Oh, well... I already told you I'm not comfortable becoming a
from behind the desk to stand. *Jesus, he's tall. Six feet easy.*
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