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"Got you sorimaced I’d found a new level of hatred for ice, but if it kept me from the doctor’s it would be worth the discoo to bed Rest for a few hours"

"Soon I just need to relax for a while first" Preferably not alone, but I didn’t dare say that

I sat in a corner of the couch and propped ently placed my foot on his lap and then carefully wrapped it with the ice pack The whole situation was co roo into my skin Warmly decorated, but with no pets or other people, the house felt awfully lonely

"Looking for souy"

"Suits me fine"

"I’m sure it does, but still strikes me as kind of lonely"

"I’rowled

I raisedme to be polite and leave it alone "Oh, did I touch a nerve?"

"No"

I tugged on a chunk of my hair and finally blurted out exactly as on ainst me forever?"

"Sive ht But it was obvious that you weren’t going to take it"

"Was it? Well a lie is still a lie"

"I’m not the only one who hasn’t been entirely honest" I pulled ht on the couch, balancing so the ice pack stayed on as I set my foot on the floor I didn’t quite have it indown either

"Why did you kisscouldn’t have possibly been worse After I’d lied to him and he’d been forced to takewith thoughts of Mason troubling my mind, I wouldn’t have sensed that vampire and who knoould have happened? And for soue

He drew back as if I’d struck him, then his face hardened even further "Because I wanted to"

At least he hadn’t said because he had drunk too much "Always honest, huh? You kiss me, then you call it a mistake You act like you care about me one minute, then like you couldn’t care less the next You say things like…like what you said earlier tonight, and then you act like a stranger"

"I’ve never lied to you"

"Didn’t you?" My voice raised and for once I didn’t try to stifle er I’d lost too many hours of sleep over the man "You lied when you said that kiss was a mistake and then followed me with your eyes for months after You lied when you just said you kissed me because you felt like it in the moment" I leaned closer to him with every word until ere only inches apart "Why?"

I had only a split second of warning before hisany recourse, his lips pressed against ht have been h ue stroked rowled low in his throat

The constant worry about round There was only hi with that of his soap and aftershave Thear

A swirl of eh rip of his hands holdingfeeling of belonging Finally belonging

Mason broke the kiss and the spell too, and I collapsed back into the corner of the couch,htly swollen from our kiss, his hair was mussed, and his expression fiercely open

"Now tell me that you didn’t lie to me too," I said softly

He rubbed his face with his hands, and when he looked back at me, a deep frown creased his mouth "It would never work between us"

"Why not?" The question was too honest, left me open to too much hurt But it fell from my lips before I could stop it And it was a reasonable question, if too revealing We were both cops Both otherworlders--well, mostly Sure, I wasn’t a lycan, but I didn’t think tradition alone would keep Mason Sanderson fro he really wanted