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same. They recognised the qualities Thayne held and our need for him. Now all we had to do was convince Gideon.
    “You know who he is, right?” Gideon raged, glaring at the men.
    “Of course we know who he is. That is the exact reason that he would be perfect. And weren’t you saying just last night that we needed to find someone with more experience to help retain order in this place? He’s the one.”
    Was Thayne someone special? Someone important? Surely if he were, Gideon wouldn’t have denied permission. Would he?
    It was evident that Gideon wasn’t going to cave easily. What was his problem? “What’s a matter? Why don’t you want him around here?”
    When he ignored my question, refusing to give me an answer, Trent piped up. “Is he on a job? That’s the only thing I can think of that would make you turn him away. Is he after one of our own?”
    “He says he is between jobs,” Gideon admitted, his reluctance to answer the question obvious.
    “Then what the fuck is the problem?” Reese yelled.
    “He’s a fucking assassin! That’s the fucking problem!”
    An assassin? Now I wasn’t so sure if I wanted him to stick around or not.

 
     
    Thayne
    Things had taken a sudden change in the right direction. Thank fuck!
    I’d been sat at the bar talking to Dean, the barman, who had warmed up to me since I’d broken up the large fight that had been getting closer and closer to his bar by the second. Apparently he’d only just had the top replaced after the last big fight cracked it, and he didn’t want the new one to get even a scratch on it. We’d been deep in conversation, a young familiar named Pippa snuggled in his arms smiling up at him lovingly when Gideon approached me, his hair in disarray as if he’d been pulling at it, his fists clenched at his sides.
    Pippa took one look at the Master vampire’s face and departed quickly. I didn’t blame her. He didn’t seem euphoric. What had I done now to piss him off now?
    Coming up beside me, he mumbled something that I didn’t quite catch. “What?”
    Taking a deep breath and slowly releasing it, he repeated, “Do you still want that job?”
    “What?” I laughed. “Just a few hours ago you were giving me my marching orders.”
    “Yes, well, things changed.”
    Yep, like my saving his club from destruction.
    I was just wondering why he’d changed his mind, what could have happened to make his stubborn ass offer me a job when the three vampires from his security team pushed their way over.
    “Well?”
    “Is he taking the job?”
    “Have you stopped being a fucking ass yet?”
    I had to try seriously hard to keep my face straight with that last one.
    Face flushing with anger and frustration, he reluctantly asked, “So do you still want the job or not?”
    “You haven’t told me what the job is yet?” I smiled. I shouldn’t really tease him, but it was just so much fun.
    “Security… and training this bunch.”
    I could have refused. Could have made him stew and beg. But I needed the job, and they really did need the help. Not that I was going to tell him that. With employment in this place, I’d have the perfect opportunity to get to know all his staff and customers, both human and vampire alike. Someone was bound to know something; it was obvious to me already that something was going on around here. Gideon had tried to get rid of me for a reason. The question was why?
    “I’ll take the job. But there’s one problem,” I added seeing an opportunity and taking it.
    “What’s that?”
    “The sun will be rising soon, and I don’t have any place arranged to stay for the day.”
    “I thought you said you would sort that yourself?” he asked, remembering my earlier words.
    Back then I hadn’t known he was going to be such a bastard about me being here. If I were going to get any chance of looking around this place when it was empty, I’d need to be here during the day when he wasn’t. “That was before you refused me, and I