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table, poker chips spread out everywhere.
“What the fuck?” one of the vampires snapped as he stood. “You’re not supposed to be in here.”
Rowan waved the man off as he sat in an empty seat. The vampire next to him scooted his chair away from Rowan. He knew no one was supposed to touch him, but he didn’t fucking stink.
“Deal me in,” Rowan said as he ignored the stares all around him. Hell if he was going back to just sitting on a pillow and looking pretty.
“Are you—”
“Look, deal me in or I touch every last damn one of you.” He raised a finely arched brow, sticking his hand out to the man who had moved away, his finger slowly inching toward the guy.
“Deal him in!” the man shouted as he swallowed and scooted his chair over another inch.
Rowan beamed at the others in the room as the cards flew in his direction. What he had failed to tell anyone was that he knew absolutely nothing about playing poker. He’d never played it in his life, but he could fake it. Rowan fiddled with his cards until he got them into an order that he liked then glanced at the man next to him.
“Do you have a king?”
The vampire gaped at him as his fingers trembled, handing Rowan a king.
“That’s not how poker is played,” the vampire across the table shouted. It was the same one who told Rowan he couldn’t be here. “This is not Go Fish.”
Rowan shrugged as he set his three kings down on the table. “It is now.”
“But—”
“Either play Go Fish or…” Rowan trailed off as he began to poke the air in front of the loudmouth.
“Fine!” the man snapped. “Go Fish it is,” he grumbled as the entire table groaned.
Rowan really wasn’t trying to be a prick, but these men needed to loosen up. They were so uptight that they were shitting large diamonds out of their asses. It was clear to Rowan that he would have to liven things up a bit.
Rowan grinned at the petrified vampires. “Whose deal is it?”
Chapter 6
    Luca was furious as he searched the top two floors of the hotel. How the hell had his mate disappeared and not a single person saw what happened? Rowan wasn’t answering him through their bond, which made Luca fear the worst.
    “Find him!” he snarled at Manu as he went from room to room, searching for his mate. His heart felt like it was being torn out of his chest the longer he searched and came up empty handed. If anyone had harmed his mate, Luca was going to wipe out their entire species.
    It was that damn serious.
He shot down the hallway when Manu waved to him. Rowan had been in the room down the hall all this time? Luca’s muscles coiled with tension the closer he approached, fearing the worst until he heard laughter coming from the room.
His mate’s beautiful voice made his heart beat once again.
“Do you have an eight?”
What the hell?
Luca gaped as he stood in the doorway and watched his anamchara play cards with other vampires of his tribe, looking as though he was having the time of his life. Luca didn’t make a move to enter the room. He was enjoying the pure joy on Rowan’s face.
“You’re cheating!” Jackson yelled at his mate.
Luca let off a low growl, and he stepped into the room. No one talked to his mate that way. No one.
“Oh shit,” Jackson shouted as he jumped from his chair. “I told him he shouldn’t be in here, Electus. He insisted on playing.”
Somehow Luca knew that his mate would do just that. But that still didn’t excuse the way Jackson had spoken to Rowan. “You will meet me in my office.”
Jackson swallowed as he nodded, quickly dropping his eyes in submission. “Yes, Electus.”
“As for you,” he said as Rowan stood to face him. The smile was gone on his mate’s face. The trepidation in Rowan’s beautiful green eyes tugged at Luca but not enough to let him off the hook. “Follow me.”
Luca stormed out of the small room and headed down the hallway toward the stairs leading to the penthouse. He knew Manu would escort Rowan, so he didn’t even wait