Chapters 8-16 Summary

Jean-Claude takes Anita to meet his master, Nikolaos, who is Master of the City and the most powerful vampire Anita has ever met. Along the way, Anita must act as a Jean-Claude's lover in order to fool patrolling police. Anita resists as Jean-Claude embraces her on the street and immediately feels a shock of excitement and undeniable chemistry. The initial connection between Anita and Jean-Claude is made and proves to be an almost irresistible attraction. This exhilarates and frightens both Anita and Jean-Claude.

Anita and Jean-Claude enter into an unnamed hotel and wend their way to a room where Aubrey and a woman wait. The woman is classic vamp and tells Anita that she is Nikolaos, Master of the City. Anita tells the woman that it is apparent she is much too young and not powerful enough to be Nikolaos. Jean-Claude...