i take a deep breath and head back out into the club . someone 's bought up all the spare timber . `` the invitation is yours if you want it , '' he told her in a cold voice . `` maybe not , but that 's what he told me . '' i thought about arguing with the direction he was taking , but i thought better of it . i was pretty sure it was a defense mechanism to keep the real her hidden , but i still had n't figured out what she was hiding from . 