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Teeth gritted, jaw clenched, Lex considered making a scene over the ridiculous nickname, but that would only be rising to the bait and, happily, two more bids interrupted the possibility and brought things back to the much more sensible topic of business and money.

"Thirty."

Katya winked at both, watching the way Lex's jaw tensed, but only just. Still, the blonde was always the sort to poke the bear.

"Did I touch a nerve, Alexei? I can make it all better, if you'll come up here and let me show off some of my nastier tricks. How do you feel about corpses, or summoned fadebeasties? Hmmm?" Her slow, predatory smile could go either way - was she serious, or still working to get a rise out of him?

"Sounds a bit too much like getting my hands dirty, doll. There's a reason I ain't up on the block beside you," he countered with a wink and a grin. He might be a walking corpse, but he was a pretty walking corpse and wasn't about to become anything less than that.

"Thirty five."

"Tsk. Take away all my fun, why don't you..."

"Maybe one of your other admirers will volunteer for a demonstration, doll. I already know what I'm buyin', but they might not."

"Forty."

"Ohh, someone's getting serious," the blonde snickered softly. "Something you want to say, Lex?"

"Serious, doll? Me? You oughta know better than that," he countered with a wink, waiting to see if he would be outbid again.