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fight to block the intrusion. It didn’t even
have an effect on him.”
    “Hmm,” Lucan said. “That is peculiar.”
    “What do you think caused this?” Matthias asked.
    “I don’t know.” I shook my head. “I tried to ascertain what
he was and there’s definitely something different about him.”
    “Gargoyle magic wouldn’t work on a vampire,” Lucan said. “Or
a shapeshifter for that matter.”
    “I don’t think that’s what he is,” I said. “I believe he’s
human, but there’s something more there.”
    “Any idea what?” Mattias asked.
    I shook my head. “I want you both to keep an eye on him
too.”
    Mattias nodded. “Describe what he looks like.”
    “He’s easy to spot,” I said. “The guitarist for the Velvet
Cocks.”
    “The rock band Maya books to play here often?”
    Maya, girlfriend of the club owner Tristan Stone, booked
many of the acts and by the number of times she had the Velvet Cocks and danced
near the front of the stage, she was a fan. “Yes.”
    Lucan’s mouth twitched into a smirk. “Is he the one who
wears the crazy outfits? Like he’s from the Middle Ages?”
    “That would be the one,” I agreed. Chee Keydood was as
recognizable for his outfits as for his antics onstage.
    “What shall we look for in particular?” Mattias asked.
    “Anything at all,” I answered. “I think there’s more to him
than even he’s aware of.”
     
    Ally
    “Check you out at the gym on a Sunday,” Lily said the next
morning after I taught a yoga class. “Miracles do happen.”
    “Don’t remind me,” I said as we walked the paths through the
pine trees near the gym. They filled the air with their scent, reminding me
that Christmas was coming soon. Snow still clung to the ground and the air was
cool, but it felt soothing after working our muscles with yoga. “I’m doing a
favor for the instructor. She had a wedding last night and begged me to cover
for her. I have half an hour until I teach Pilates.”
    “Sooo,” she began in a singsong voice. “How did you end up
with Mike last night?”
    “We didn’t really end up together,” I protested. “We just
ran into each other and he wanted to make sure I got home okay.”
    “Aww,” Lily said. “Sounds sweet.”
    “Ugh, no,” I clarified. “He didn’t even remember me at
first. What an ass.” The sting was still fresh.
    “So was he trying to sleep with you again? Is that why he
went home with you?” Lily took a swig from her water bottle.
    I chewed my bottom lip, trying to make sense of everything.
“Probably. He’s a guy. And his reputation as a womanizer is well-known. He’s
not like Nico at all.”
    Lily began seeing Nico several months ago. And they moved in
together rather quickly if you ask me. She quit her job to start consulting,
sold her sweet condo, and they bought a townhouse.
    “He’s not so bad, Ally,” Lily said. “I thought he was a jerk
at first, I really didn’t like him. But he’s just wary of new people, I think.”
    I snorted to show my skepticism.
    Lily gave me a sympathetic look. “I think he inflates the
bad boy image to fit the role of a rock guitarist.”
    “What makes you say that?”
    “Because he’s different when he’s hanging out with Nico and
John. Nico told me how smart he is. No matter how much they dig each other, the
guys respect him. Apparently, he’s a brilliant software engineer at work.
Skipped a couple of grades at school and went to MIT.”
    “That’s kind of cool,” I admitted.
    “You know how some guys like that can be,” she continued.
“Super smart, but lacking in social skills.”
    A pang of empathy hit me. It must have been tough to not
only go to a super selective and competitive school like MIT, but to be two
years younger than everyone else. As a fan of the Velvet Cocks, I knew they
were a bunch of self-proclaimed computer geeks who made a rock band for fun.
Starting out as a parody at first, they created an outrageous band name and
stage names and