<a class="link link--external" href="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Karinina/normal_03.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Shelly Vesper</a>entered the room with a smile on her face.  Marz and Alec with both her bestfriends.  That's why she'd told her friends and her boyfriend,<a class="link link--external" href="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Karinina/images-109.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Maize Coreman</a>to not make a big deal out of today being her 21st birthday.  She said that it was just another birthday, and besides, today was Marz's 200th birthday, so she wanted him to be the focus.  Maize came in shortly after her with his manager following closely behind him.  Shelly kept teasing him about losing to her friend Amber, until she saw Marz.  She ran up and waited for Alec to let him go before hugging him.  "Happy Birthday Marz."  She said with a smile.  Her voice was melodic as always.<br/><br/>"Yeah, happy birthday man."  Maize said as he came over to them after saying hi to a couple other people.  He even smiled and hugged Amber, but he was gritting his teeth which made it pretty obvious that his pride still stung a bit from being beaten by a girl.  "Hey Alec, you do realize that<a class="link link--external" href="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Karinina/images-185.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Blake</a>will give you hell about dressing her the way you dressed Maria, right?"  Maize said as he arched an eyebrow.  Maria had been the name of Alec's last slave.  Blake was a very good friend of Alec and Marz.  She was also the daughter-in-law and mortal enemy of Monica LaCroix.  She was also the owner, and creator of Multi-Cultural Magazine.<br/><br/>Blake had married Monica's son<a class="link link--external" href="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Karinina/images-110.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank"> Christopher LaBlanche</a>who had taken his father's name after his mother made him leave Alec.  Monica had a very big issue because Blake was a 500 year old British witch known as The Devil's Wife, while her son was a 250 year old werewolf.  Blake put an end to Monica's bitching when she held a gun loaded with silver buck shots at her and told her to either eat her pride or eat a silver bullet, Monica chose to eat her pride since she valued her life.<br/><br/>Blake had three young Italian girls that were always helping her make sure everything looked perfect for the cover shots of the magazine.  She did not run a trashy tabloid, she ran a high-class magazine, and when she walked through the door she had only two stories that she wanted to cover.  The 200th birthday of Marz Harmor, and Alec Maqce and his new slave, Lady Greyback, the best human underground fighter that had been seen in quite sometime.  One thing that Blake was anal about was making sure that Alec's slaves looked good, since he had a tendency to dress them in what he liked and not what looked best on them.<br/><br/>Blake and Christopher both hugged Marz and wished him a happy birthday along with<a class="link link--external" href="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Karinina/images-129.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Angelic</a>,<a class="link link--external" href="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Karinina/images-213.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Mara</a>, and<a class="link link--external" href="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Karinina/images-118.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Nicole</a>.  Mara had a dress bag in her hand, while Nicole had a make up bag (or duffel bag) and Angelic was carrying a camera.  Blake held out her hand for the camera and immediately snapped a shot of Marz and Alec together.  It would be a nice cover picture.  "Alec my girls are going to borrow Amber for a bit, she needs to look perfect for her picture in my magazine."  She said and the next thing she did was snap her fingers and Angelic grabbed Amber and drug her off to the bathroom.  The other two witches followed in order to work their magic, figuratively.<a class="link link--external" href="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Karinina/images-209.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Monica LaCroix</a>was the next person to enter, and finally there was Martha Monahan, and Shelly's friend,<a class="link link--external" href="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Karinina/023.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Adelinda Mace</a>.  Shelly immediately ran over to Adelinda and took her over to say hello to the large group of friends just as Martha had finished telling Marz happy birthday.