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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