I couldn’t feel the cold anymore.Maybe it was the fear. Maybe it was the bitter stone floor under my knees, numbing me until I couldn’t tell the difference between being alive and simply waiting to be owned.The underground auction was everything I imagined hell would be. Lavish, loud, and lit with too much gold. Not warmth. Not kindness. Just excess. Vampires lounged like kings on velvet-draped balconies, shadows of other creatures snarling beneath their masks. Some humanoid, others... less so. All of them hungry.And I was tonight’s delicacy.A spotlight burned down on me like a curse. I kept my eyes lowered, but I could feel the tension in the air. The way voices rose, deeper and louder. Bids were being shouted, argued, fought over.Fought over me.I shouldn’t have stood out. Not when others were auctioned before me, some even more beautiful, more trained. But maybe that was the problem. I wasn’t trained. I was untouched. A virgin in every way they wanted. And worse, I was human.
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