with the broody face?” Declan asked as he took his seat in the booth across from Mason.

     Mason lifted his eyes to his friend and shrugged. “I have a new neighbor.”

     Declan nodded in understanding. “Noisy? Keeping you awake during the day when all good vampires should be sleeping?”

     “Ha ha fucking ha,” Mason retorted. “And no, she seems to be a bit of a nocturnalist like me.”

     “Yeah, I don’t think that’s a word.”

     “It’s a hell of a lot better than referring to myself as a fucking vampire.”

     “That would be a sucking vampire and what are we talking about?” Brian slid into the booth beside Mason and...