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Claimed at Midnight Chapter 1 : Welcome to Nine Lives
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Creatures of THE Night Chapter 2 : Knock First
In the back of Nine Lives—past the Ready Room, the small kitchen, coat check, and the bathroom—are four VIP Rooms for specific clientele who request a private dance. They're organized from worst to best, with the most premium of the rooms—The Rose Continental—only given to clients who had Hermès originals or could afford them.To put it bluntly, Jévon and I were not the types of people who usually frequented its rose marble splendor. Well, scratch that, I knew I wasn't."This is…" Jévon picked up a faceted crystal goblet reminiscent of those old-school Tiffany's perfumes from the '30s. An amber liquid too thick to be scotch swirled in its depths, almost metallic in its sheen. "Do you have any idea what this even is?""No, why? Should I?"It came out sharper than I'd meant to, bitterness creeping up and replacing any charm I'd mustered.I was already feeling…less than stellar being in the opulent decadence of this room. Satin champagne drapes with buttery smooth
Creatures of THE Night Chapter 3 : Enjoy Your Stay At The Rose Continental
He'd flipped our positions somehow, and I bounced on the thousand-dollar springs of the bed. He'd folded me neatly in half, knees touching either side of my head, pussy exposed to his gaze with only a lace strip of red and hose preventing me from being fully naked. Jévon put his whole weight on my legs, looming over me enough that I lost details of his face in the shadow of him.All except those odd bright aqua eyes."Hold them," he growled, and it didn't take a genius to understand what Jévon was implying, "Or, I'll solve that for you."Jévon had never frightened me, and he didn't scare me now even with myself completely at his mercy.But, Jévon did sound…dangerous…and in a way, I'd only heard once before.It was a tone that meant he was serious and I wasn't to argue. Commanding.My pussy clenched around nothing as I thought of how that might translate to taking me. He'd be rough when I expected him to be tender, and the thought of his mild-mannered nature givi
Creatures of THE Night Chapter 4 : Good Morning
I woke up to the dulcet tones of Earth, Wind, and Fire asking if I wanted to groove tonight.And to an empty bed."Jévon?"I opened my eyes, confused by the figures of Snoopy and Woodstock dancing around the sheets. A heavily worn and dog-eared copy of an old Agatha Christie novel lay to my left instead of the six-foot-four juggernaut of a man next to me. I lifted the sheet, expecting him to be underneath like a common bugbear. The disappointment to follow felt almost too childish to have.I laid back on my bed, wearing my hammy-down Bugs Bunny T-shirt and the ratty basketball shorts I'd stolen from a college roommate.Okay, what the actual fuck?Ignoring the possibility that maybe the stressors of life had finally made me crack, I was pretty damn sure I wasn't the type of girl to hallucinate.I didn't drink any of the offers men had tried to give me before my last set, and I was laying off smoking Irrwurz because it was just too expensive a habit of kee
Creatures of THE Night Chapter 5 : Trouble Man
"Did you hear about the Midnight Cowboy!?""I heard that he—""—my cousin Delores said—""—he's SO dreamy, like—""—I heard he kills people—""—pero, better than—" "Veronica…Veronica…? HEY Ronnie!""I'm awake!"My eyes are blurry, tracking the streaming neon lights of Nines.I must have fallen asleep after my shift at Open Palms Retirement Home.Half of the reason why Nana Bet could stay was based on my continuing employment there, it helped to clear away a good portion of her housing cost. However, good was still "too much" with my student loans, my apartment, and any debt my parents still had. Which was…a lot.I wasn't treading water so much, as I was trying to fight the currents so I wouldn't drown. I yawned, stretching to crack my back, dressed in my own pair of scrubs shaded a nice berry magenta, my favorite color. Shit, I was never going to make it through my sets for tonight if I kept nodding off."Sorry," I covered my mouth in fear
Creatures of THE Night Chapter 6 : Beware the Midnight Cowboy
"That's okay," I still had my hand on the door handle, waiting to push it in when the moment was right. I felt like a deer caught in the scope of a hunter. One false move and I'd be dead. "I, uh, gotta leave because—""Bitch, it wasn't a request." He patted his thigh like one does when calling a particularly stubborn dog. "Get over here Venus, come along now."My hand gripped the door—last chance.Q's eyes hardened, and when he opened his mouth again he was half shifted, a towering snarling beast threatening to rip out of the human skin it wore to conceal itself: "I SAID NOW BITCH!"His power washed over me, the heat of a budding alpha, a type of dominance that crushed the willpower of weaker monsters and humans. My knees buckled, bloodlust riding his magical current, and in my mind, I was assaulted with visions of what he wanted to do to me. My vision blurred, adrenaline making me practically vibrate out of my skin.If I didn't act as he wanted me to, I'd neve
Creatures of THE Night Chapter 7 : Let's Have a Kiki
"And!?""And what?"Noelle and I were taking our break outside Open Palms, near the decrepit picnic table hidden behind a blown generator sanitation refused to get. Noelle pressed her Black Magic Woman clove cigarettes to pine green lips, blowing to the side so the smoke would remain downwind of me."Come on, Ronnie. Don't play me like that. You met Cibola royalty last night! Like an actual goddamn vigilante as cryptid as cryptids get! And you're not going to tell me what the favor was? I thought we were friends!""We are!" I said putting down my chicken salad sandwich, "remember Angela Ravencroft?""Why one of the coolest names to ever be created had to land on such a dick, I will never know. This is why I don't believe in gods…And she was a descendant from the Salem coven! Salem!""But she wasn't nearly half the spellsmith you are!" I bumped my shoulder into Noelle's hip making her grin. "Remember when she turned her tits blue?""She was trying to m
Creatures of THE Night Chapter 8 : About Last Night
***Ten Hours Ago*** "Hear me out," I had my hands up, trying to placate the dullahan in front of me. His flames had rocketed once he heard my request, a jet of fire about two meters high wavering in the night sky like the world's tallest torch. "Like I know this is a little unusual for a request and is probably not something asked of you by innocent bystanders. But, maybe it is? You are really popular after all."The flames became a teal inferno."Sorry, not trying to embarrass you! Gods, this is so hard to explain…" We were still outside the school, the werewolf bodies burning so there would be no evidence by the time the kids woke up. Ah, so that explained the mysterious disappearances for ne'er-do-wells. Not his usual MO from what I'd seen, normally he left his victims hogged-tied for CCPD. Unless they were really bad.Considering what they were about to do to me, and whom they worked for, I could believe it.Which is why I wanted to test my hypothesis.I
Creatures of THE Night Chapter 9 : Consequences
Tomorrow was actually not better; it was infinitely worse.For starters, Erika was not having an allergic reaction to a customer's cologne like I was led to believe, which meant stealing this life-saving and expensive Epinephrine was not only pointless but was another mark to get me fired if Noelle didn't turn the cameras off in the drug room. Which, she might not have, because she was magical and technology never worked like how it was supposed to for her unless she magically hexed it herself.It's one of the many reasons why she'd hidden being magically inclined from her mother for the rest of their relationship and just labeled herself "technologically impaired"No, Erika was not in trouble, and normally that would be something to rejoice about because I derived zero pleasure from people getting hurt unless they were a nemesis, i.e. like Bianca. I wasn't a saint; I could admit that.But, I mentioned how today was not so great, right?That's because if I had
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