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name-dropping her mom. I hear it for the first time as if I’m Kaidan, and it makes me wince at how desperate it sounds. Char’s mom, Diane Lamb, is a very famous, very eccentric actress who was already fifty when she adopted Char from Japan. She’s in her seventies now and never leaves her mansion for anything.
    Kaidan gives a slight nod of his head and glances off into the crowd like he wants to get away from my friends.
    “Great meeting you, man,” Levi says. He needs a lesson in cool, for real.
    Kaidan nods again, and his eyes narrow at Levi. Totally awkward.
    “I’m headed for the VIP room.” Kaidan hands me my drink, and all I feel from him is a chill, his friendliness gone. It’s like he didn’t just have his hands and lips all over me five minutes ago.
    He starts off, just abandoning me, and I hurry after him with my friends, feeling like a puppy dog fool. What the hell? Did I just imagine what happened in the Velvet Room? My cheeks warm at the thought of our time on the couch. I want more of that. Badly.
    Char and Levi grab me by both arms.
    “Well?” Char asks.
    “You two need to chill out. Act cool.”
    “I don’t need a lesson,” Char snaps. She looks truly offended and points to Levi. “She’s talking about you .”
    Levi rolls his eyes. “Whatever.”
    “Where were you guys?” Char asks.
    “I promise I’ll give you all the details later, kay?” I’m nauseous for some reason now, watching Kaidan push through the crowd ahead of us to the VIP room.
    “V. I. P.” Levi says, in a singsong way.
    I elbow him. “Behave.”
    I think I can believe the V.I.P. rumors, but I’m not about to tell Levi that.
    Kaidan reaches the room first, says something to the bouncer at the door while pointing at me, Char, and Levi. And then we’re in.

The bouncer lets us through the doors to the VIP room, and we walk into a mini version of the main club. There are probably two-dozen people in here. There’s different music, not quite as loud as the other room, a bar along one wall, and leather couches along the others, with modern metal tables in between them. My eyes jump from person to person, trying to take stock of who these people are.
    Kaidan walks over to the Cylon Smash guys. They’re spread out on one of the couches, and a few drop-dead gorgeous women are hanging out with them. Their tattooed, long-haired lead singer, Ender Varrone, has the prettiest one in his lap. He wraps his hand around one of her barely covered breasts and pulls her close. She twists in his lap to make out with him. And now I’m staring, the space between my legs heating up at the thought of what I just did with Kaidan… and how much I want to do it again.
    Char nudges me, bringing me back to a reality where Kaidan has walked off and is apparently ignoring me now.
    “To the left,” Char says, excited, “Bia and her manager.”
    Bia’s even more famous than Serena Lynn right now. She looks just as gorgeous as she does in her pictures, all perfect, deep brown skin, long legs, and stylish short hair. She’s hanging on an old guy that reminds me of my lawyer. Her manager, I guess. There’s a few people crowded around her, and they strike me as dancers, or back-up singers. They aren’t all beautiful, but they’re all in amazing shape.
    “I read Bia’s dating her manager. That’s the rumor, anyway,” Levi says, keeping his voice low. “Ohhh, shit. Look who else is hanging with Bia. Half the main cast of The Werewolf Chronicles.”
    “Uh-oh,” Char says. “Is Peyton here?”
    I hold my breath and dart a glance at the cast. I don’t see her.
    “Nope. Not here,” Levi says, too loud.
    “But… Ooo,” Char gushes, “Liam Hart and Cole Hudson are.”
    “Yum,” Levi says.
    I glance where they’re both looking. “I don’t know who—”
    “Werewolf Chronicles!” Levi says. “They co-star.”
    “I take it they play werewolves?”
    “You seriously don’t know?”
    “Should I?”
    “Liam and Cole play two