Thief: Shadows and Death Saga

Chapter 2 🌶

We pulled up to club Sanctum and I couldn't help but roll my eyes at the name of Danni's favorite haunt. Seriously, who names these places? I set the final touch of my glamour, changing my scent to a more artificial smell of white musk and honeysuckle to blend more seamlessly with the humans, masking the perfumed notes that would easily identify me as fae and then exited the car. Danni tossed the keys to the valet then smoothed any wrinkles from her forest green club dress before linking arms with me. A smirked rested on my burgundy stained lips as she led me up the walk bypassing the waiting crowd, she blew a kiss to the surly looking bouncer who grinned at her as he opened the doors to the club, "Save me a dance Dannika?" He murmured as we strode past, she nodded at him with a smile and a wink.

My skin tingled with the influx of emotions and noise, it was past midnight on a Friday night and the place was a writhing sea of bodies and energy. I found a coveted spot at a standing table while Danni chatted with a waitress who soon returned with a glass of honey mead for me and a shot of what smelled like tequila for my friend. I glanced wearily at the glass, "are you trying to get me drunk?" I yelled over the din of the place. "Um yeah duh how else am I going to get a glimpse of those pretty wings later? now down it and let's dance!" She replied with a grin as I shook my head then downed the only liquid in the club guaranteed to get me tipsy.

Danni and I had been roommates and friends for over 5 years and while she knew what I was, she was determined to see my true form by hook or by crook. Her desire to sneak a peek at my hidden goodies as she called them had become a running joke between us and she never missed an opportunity to ask me to acquiesce to her demands. Having finished my drink I was promptly dragged to the middle of a sea of bodies on the dance floor.

I shivered for a moment, the lingering gaze of something or someone putting me on edge. I looked around to find no one obviously staring aside from some drunken human males who regarded Danni and I as fresh prey. If they only knew, I thought to myself as the warmth of my drink started to spread pleasantly through my body. Song after song reverberated through me as I lost myself within the crush of a writhing wriggling mass of bodies pushing against me. I breathed deeply feeling the ambient energy of those around me absorb into my tired center.

Hands occasionally would drift my slim curves but were quickly and sharply smacked when they would get a little too bold. Danni at some point left to get more drinks which I gratefully gulped down upon her return, the wine cooling my throat before it spread in warm tingles throughout my limbs. More time, more dancing, I was deep within my feeding haze, Danni had abandoned the dance floor to makeout with the bald headed tattooed bouncer from earlier. I felt cool fingers slide over the bare skin of my lower back, a sharp contrast to the clammy hamfisted gropes I had thus far experienced. I shivered involuntarily as those soothing digits soon gripped my waist and I was pulled flush to a body behind me gooseflesh racing down my limbs.

Drunk on the lust of the room and drinks I arched my back while my arm extended up and back to caress the face of the man behind me. A strong jaw, shaved impossibly smooth, greeted my finger tips, sparks and tingles rippling through my body everywhere bare flesh made contact. We danced, if you could call the grinding against each other we were doing dancing, my ass pressed snugly against the impressively large bulge forming in the man's pants. He groaned softly in my ear as I continued to move against him, soft feathery kisses trailing down the column of my neck. His teeth lightly grazed the tender flesh of my throat igniting my own lust and a deeper need to feed more directly.

I pulled away quickly, despite those fingers clutching desperately to keep me rooted in place. I spun to face him, gazing up into shockingly blue eyes before I leaned up whispering "you won't remember me after I walk away" I pushed the suggestion deep into his mind and was satisfied when his eyes became hooded. I ran my finger down the length of his jaw as I observed the man in front of me. His features were hard to determine in the strobing lights, he was handsome for sure but the finer details would remain a mystery in the constantly shifting light source of the dance floor. I felt his arms loop my waist and his knee slid between my thighs as we continued to dance. I moaned at the friction and leaned up pressing my lips to his.

The energy he gave off was intoxicating, our mouths moved in a slow sensual dance as our tongues swirled for dominance. I let him win as he pulled me more firmly against his hard body, and I practically pulsed with tingles and desire at the friction of his thigh pressing against my groin. He was one singular word… delicious. His taste, his energy, the feel of his body, everything pushed me to want to disrobe him right here on the dance floor. He moaned into the kiss, and I broke it to look up into his half closed electric blue eyes. He was in a stunned haze from the direct feeding I hadn't actually planned to do.

I felt Danni slide her hand into mine as she pulled me away from his slackening grip and I couldn't help the whimper that escaped my mouth as she whispered in my ear, "I agreed we wouldn't stay until close which means we have 30 minutes until I'm a liar, lights will be on soon sweet'ums so unless you plan on seeing him again, let's go before he can ID you." I let her pull me from the club into the sticky heat of the pre-dawn summer morning, the flux in temperatures helping to sober me. Danni's coup was waiting for us and we were in and gone within moments.

I watched in the side mirror as my dancing partner burst through the club doors looking around frantically for the girl that got away, his confusion was palpable as he struggled to remember me, his mind was stronger than expected if he knew to even be looking for me. My breath hitched and I spun to get a better look as we got further and further from the club, I still couldn't see the finer details from our distance but the ones I could make out made the blood drain from my face. He stared after our retreating vehicle, a deep sense of unexplainable loss sweeping over me as we turned a corner and I righted myself in my seat… the man was devastatingly handsome even at a distance and in that moment I was reasonably sure I had been making out with a vampire.