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crossed him. That thought made her stop. He turned to look
at her when she did. She didn’t move when he stood up and started toward her.
    He didn’t say
anything as they stared at each other. His name tag over his heart said he was
the manager, Kyle Dixon. She looked back up at his face and wasn’t surprised to
see the tip of his fangs as he smiled. Megan looked at the woman, the one in
the nice suit who came to stand next to him. She spoke first.
    “Hello. Can we
help you?”
    Megan didn’t
answer at first. Waves of nausea hit her hard and she staggered slightly. The
man started to reach for her, but Megan took a step back and into someone
behind her. Before she could turn he grabbed her around the waist and she felt
the first grip of terror.
    “Let me go.” Megan
knew it was the man from the other night. She could smell him. She tried to
turn, but he simply held her tighter and told her to behave.
    “We’re not going
to hurt you. Your hunger is beating against us and we’re trying to keep you
from attacking anyone in here. Why the fuck didn’t you feed before coming
here?”
    “I don’t attack
people. Let me go, you overgrown ox.” She brought her foot down hard on his
instep and moved out of his arms when he jerked back. “I want to go. I made a
mistake coming here. Move.”
    He stood in front
of the door and the man and woman flanked her right and left sides. Megan
didn’t have to turn to know that there were others behind her. She knew that
she couldn’t win against those odds.
    “Tell me why you
came here and I’ll think about letting you go. You are in my realm, young lady,
and I run the show, not you.”
    She must have
looked confused because he cocked a brow at her. “I’m the master, Aaron MacManus.
You are in my realm and, being so, I am your master. You must obey me above—”
    “I obey no one,
least of all a self-proclaimed master.” There was enough scorn in that last
word to tell him what she thought of him.
    The man behind
her, Kyle, laughed, but a quick look from the man in front of her had him
turning it into a cough. The woman had no such problems and kept her laughter
going until Aaron cleared his throat.
    “Oh, Aaron, you
know as well as I do that you are as impressed as we are. Not many would stand
up to someone of your power or badassness. Let the girl speak and we’ll get to
the bottom of this. Come on, Miss…”
    Megan looked at
the woman and realized she was powerful. Not like Aaron, but no less powerful. Megan
turned with the woman, but kept an eye on the Master Dingdong or whatever he
said he was.
    “Megan, Megan
Reed. I came…I need a job. But I can only work nights, no daylight at all.
I’m…I have a problem with the sun.”
    Megan didn’t know
what others knew about her. She could tell when someone was different, most of
the time she could even tell if they were vampires or werewolves, but nothing
much more than that. Some had a certain scent about them, but it wasn’t
anything she knew to associate with any one type of paranormal.
    “Yes, so does my
mate. I’m Madison Dixon, by the way. Come on, let’s get you something to eat
then we’ll talk. You need a job, you say? What can you do?”
    “Tend bar, but I
don’t eat. I don’t…I’m not hungry.” Not for food at any rate, she thought. “If
you could tell me whether or not you have an opening I can be on my way.”
    Megan walked with the woman. It
occurred to her that she seemed to have little to no choice in the matter. Before
she knew it she was in an office and the door was closed behind them. They were
seated on the big couch and Megan had a glass of blood when Miss Dixion started
to talk.
    “I’ve not seen you here before. Tell
me about yourself. How did you hear about Blood Moon?”
    Megan looked in the glass in her
hand and shuddered. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust the woman who gave it to
her—she didn’t actually—but it was the fact that she had to drink it to
survive. Miss Dixon