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me handle this—it’s what I’m supposed to do.”
    Alex suddenly looked horrified. “I’m not going to let you go off alone with him.” He got up and pulled me up with him.
    He took me over to the corner of the living room and lowered his voice, his eyes pressing. “Don’t forget what he did to you, just because you erased it.”
    “I understand where you’re coming from—I really do, but you’ve got to stop worry about me all the time. I’m not a girl who needs to be protected by you because she has a star’s energy that will save the world. I’m a girl, with a very unique Foreseer’s gift, who needs to save the world from the star’s energy.”
    Alex ran his fingers though his hair as he stared off into empty space. “How am I supposed to just stop doing something, when it’s all I want to do?”
    My heart thumped insanely in my chest and, when he looked at me, I just about stopped breathing.
    “Yeah, I give you two like a day before you end up killing one another,” Nicholas’ laughter-filled voice intruded our moment.
    I scowled at Nicholas. “Thanks for your opinion,” I said sarcastically. “But we’ll be fine.” Although, I wasn’t sure I believed my own words.
    “Sure you will,” Nicholas’ grin was mocking.
    “We have a problem,” Aislin announced as she entered the room.
    “Of course we do,” Alex said with an eye roll. “The world is going to end unless we fix it.”
    She shook her head quickly. “No, not that problem…
    You’re mom just called from a payphone and told me Laylen’s in trouble.”
    “What kind of trouble?” The pitch of my voice was startlingly high.
    “He’s…” She trailed off, giving a wary glance at Nicholas.
    “Maybe we should discuss this in private.”
    “Why, he can’t go anywhere,” I pointed out, but she was still hesitant, and I found myself bursting with aggravation.
    “Just say whatever it is.”
    “He’s at…” She lowered her voice. “He was at the Red Dragon.”
    “Please don’t tell me that’s another club,” I grimaced.
    Silence and my heart sank,
    “Oh, it’s a club,” Alex said. “An exclusive club for anyone and anything that has a thirst for the evil side.”
    “Like the Black Dungeon?” I asked.
    He shook his head. “It’s much worse.”
    Oh my God, I couldn’t breathe. “But if there are vampires at this club, they might kill him because he killed Vladislav.”
    “Would you two shut up!” Aislin cried, practically spitting in our faces. “I said he was at the Red Dragon, but someone we know picked him up from there.”
    “Who?” I asked at the same time Alex said, “Great. Just what we need.”
    I gave him a funny look. “Do you know who picked him up?”
    Alex squirmed uncomfortably and tucked his hands into his pockets. “Yeah, I think might.”
    “I mean, I know she lives close by here and everything,” Aislin said, looking hurt. “But I just never thought Laylen would contact her.”
    “Who the heck is this ‘her’?” I wanted to know.
    Aislin glanced at Alex, her eyes pushing for him to explain, but he stayed mute, as he stared down at the floor.
    “It’s Stasha.” Aislin sighed. “She used to be a Keeper—
    well I guess she technically still is, but she…decided she didn’t want to be part of the circle anymore.”
    “Sounds like a smart girl to me,” I remarked.
    “Yeah…” Her gaze flicked in Alex’s direction. “She kind of left because of him.”
    “Why would she leave because of him?” I asked, noticing how much more uncomfortable Alex was getting.
    Nicholas stood up and suddenly he was right next to me.
    “Because she and Alex use to be lovers , but since he’s emotionally dead inside, he broke her heart,” he teased, pouting out his bottom lip.
    I almost slapped him. I don’t know why, though. He was just telling me the truth. But the truth hurt in a way I had never felt before—the prickle was confirming it. Really, it shouldn’t bother me that Alex once