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Thanks, Heath I suppressed a sigh as Heath walked over to , offered me some nacho cheese Doritos and a can of brown pop Z, if you&039;re really okay I&039;d like to find Jack and be sure Duchess is okay, then I&039; to sleep for a little bit of forever, Da Da about my A-ya memory to Heath Where&039;s Erik? Stevie Rae asked Heath as I chugged the can of brown pop

He&039;s still outside being all king of the castle Did you find anything after I left? Stevie Rae&039;s voice suddenly got so sharp that several of the red fledglings glanced over fros Nah, he&039;s just a butt and rechecking what Dallas and I already checked Dallas looked up from his place in front of the TV at the sound of his na&039;s cool out there, Stevie Rae Stevie Rae made a come here motion at Dallas, and he hurried to join us She lowered her voice and said, Fill me in I already told you outside before you ca back to the TV screen and creaave his arm a smack Would you pay attention? I&039;ain Dallas sighed, turned his full attention to her and gave her a cute, indulgent smile

Okay, okay But only &039;cause you asked so nice Stevie Rae frowned at him and he continued Erik, Johnny B, Heath here, he paused and nodded at Heath, and me--we searched like you told us to, which was no fun &039;cause the ice is really slick and it&039;s super-cold out there He paused Stevie Rae stared silently at him until he continued Anyway, like you already knoere doing that while you were searching down by Twenty-first Street After a while we all rotto That&039;s e told you we found those three bodies at the Lewis and Twenty-first Street corner You told us to take care of them Then you left So we did what you said, and then me and Heath and Johnny B cauess Erik&039;s still out there looking around Why? Stevie Rae&039;s voice was sharp Dallas shrugged, Could be like Heath said The guy&039;s a butt Bodies? said Sister Mary Angela Dallas nodded Yeah, we found three dead Raven Mockers Darius shot them out of the sky &039;cause they had bullet holes in theela lowered her voice And what did you do with the dead creatures? Put them in the Dumpsters behind the abbey like Stevie Rae said It&039;s freezin&039; out there They&039;ll keep And no garbage trucks are gonna be picking up anytiht they could stay there till y&039;all decided what to do with &039;eone pale You put them in the Dumpsters? I didn&039;t tell you to put them in the Dumpsters! Stevie Rae practically yelled Sssh! Kraave us the stank eye Sister Mary Angela motioned for us to follow her, and the five of us went quickly out of the basement, up the stairwell, and into the abbey hall Dallas, I cannot believe you put &039;em in the Dumpsters! Stevie Rae rounded on him as soon as ere out of earshot of the others What&039;d you expect us to do with thelanced at Sister Mary Angela Sorry, I didn&039;t mean to blaspheme, Sister My folks are Catholic Youa little shaky BodiesI--I hadn&039;t thought about the bodies Don&039;t worry about it, Sister

Heath patted her aret what you&039;re feeling This whole thing: the winged guy, Neferet, the Raven Mockers, well, is all hard to-- They can&039;t stay in the dang Dumpsters, Stevie Rae spoke over Heath as if she hadn&039;t even heard hiht Why not? I asked calmly I&039;d been quiet until then because I&039;d been studying Stevie Rae, watching closely as she became more and more upset Stevie Rae suddenly didn&039;t seeaze Because it&039;s not right, that&039;s why, she repeated They were monsters that were part immortal ould have tried their best to kill us all in a split second if Kalona had given them the word, I said Part immortal and part what? Stevie Rae asked me I frowned at her, but Heath answered before I could Part bird? No Stevie Rae didn&039;t even look at hi at me Not part bird, that&039;s the immortal part In their blood they&039;re part immortal and part human Human, Zoey I feel sorry for the hu stuck in the trash There was so about the look in her eye--about the sound of her voice--that really botheredthat came into my mind It takes more than an accident of blood to make me feel sorry for someone Stevie Rae&039;s eyes flashed and her body jerked, aluess that&039;s one difference between you and me All of a sudden I realized why Stevie Rae was able to feel bad for the Raven Mockers

In a weird way, sheherself in them She&039;d died and then, due to what I supposed she could call an accident she&039;d resurrected without most of her huotten her huuess she felt sorry for them because she knehat it was like to be partshe and I were back at the House of Night and could talk as easily as we used to There&039;s a big difference between an accident causing so terrible that happens after someone&039;s born On one hand you&039;re e you into someone you&039;re not Huh? Heath said I believe what Zoey is trying to say is that she understands why Stevie Rae ht empathize with the dead Raven Mockers, even when she really has nothing in coht Those creatures are dark beings, and even though I, too, am disconcerted by death, I understand that they needed to die Stevie Rae&039;s gaze leftThat&039;s not what I&039;onna talk about it any quickly away from us Stevie Rae? I called after her She didn&039;t even look back at &039;s really okay out there, and then send him inside I&039;ll talk to you later She turned and disappeared through a door I assu it behind her That&039;s not usually how she acts, Dallas said I&039;ll pray for her, Sister Mary Angela whispered Don&039;t worry, Heath said She&039;ll be back inside pretty soon The sun&039;s getting ready to come up I swiped my hand across my face What I should&039;ve done was follow Stevie Rae outside, corner her, andon But I couldn&039;t deal with one more problem just then

I hadn&039;t even dealt withthere in the back of uilty secret Zo, are you okay? You look like you need soave hio to bed First I want to check on Stark real quick, though Very quickly, Sister Mary Angela said I nodded Without looking at Heath, I said, Okay, well, uht, child Sister Mary Angela hugged me and whispered, And may our Lady bless and watch over you Thanks, Sister, I whispered back, hugging her tightly When I let her go, Heath surprised ave him a question-mark look I&039;ll walk you to Stark&039;s rooed, and he and I started down the hall, hand in hand We didn&039;t say anything; we just walked Heath&039;s hand arm and familiar in mine and I fell into step easily beside hi to let myself relax when Heath cleared his throat Hey, uh, I want to say sorry about that crap outside earlier with Erik and et to ht--you shouldn&039;t, but he can be annoying, I said Heath grinned Tell onna du to talk about Erik with you

His grin just got bigger I rolled my eyes You can&039;t fool uys Just shut up and walk, I said, but I squeezed his hand, and he squeezed uys, and he did know me very, very well We&039;d come to a turn in the hallway There was a nice picture ith an alcove in front of it, co On the sill there was a beautiful porcelain statue of Mary with several votives burning on either side of her Heath and I slowed down, pausing by theThat&039;s really pretty, I said softly Yeah, I&039;ve never paid Mary much attention But all these statues of her lit up by candles are cool looking Do you think the nun&039;s right? Could Mary be Nyx and Nyx be Mary? I have no idea Doesn&039;t Nyx talk to you? Yeah, sometimes, but the subject of Jesus&039; mom hasn&039;t come up, I said Well, I think you should ask her next ti hands and watching the way the war about how nice it would be ifa time that wasn&039;t filled with life-and-death stress when Heath blurted, So I hear that Stark swore himself into your service as a Warrior

I studied hins that he was pissed or jealous, but all I saw in his blue eyes was curiosity Yeah, he did Word is that&039;s a uy who can&039;thi protected by the Ter as Arnold, but I guess it&039;s a pretty good couard, and I didn&039;t knohat to say As he&039;d been doing since ere in grade school, Heath see to say Just tell me the truth, that&039;s all Yeah, I think he loves me And you hie how I feel about you But what does that mean for you and me today? It eird that his words echoed Aphrodite&039;s question about where the A-ya memory left Kalona and me I felt overwhelmed because I didn&039;t have an answer for either of theh uess it leaves us I He just watched me with that sweet, sad, fa himy heart Heath, I&039;m so sorry I justI justMy voice broke and I tried again I just don&039;t knohat to do about a lot of things right now I do Heath sat down on the bench and held out his arms to me Zo, come here I shookfro Cohed, reached up, tookbody to his lap and into his ar his cheek on top of er than rade

My face was pressed against the crook of his neck and I inhaled his scent It was the fragrance ofin the backyard by the mosquito zapper while we listened towithin his arushed about the great passes he&039;d thrown--of long good-night kisses and the passion that ca love And I realized suddenly that while I&039;d been breathing in fa With a sigh, I curled into him Better? Heath murmured Better, I said Heath, I really don&039;t know-- Don&039;t! His arain

Right now don&039;t worry about ht now just remember us Remember what it&039;s been like between us for years I&039;h all the crap that I can&039;t really understand, I&039; to each other My blood says so Why? I asked, still cradled in his ar to be with me even when you know about Erik and Stark? Because I love you, he said si as I can re to love you for the rest ofnot to cry But Heath, Stark&039;s not going to go away And I don&039;t really knohat I&039; to do about Erik I know I drew a deep breath and on the exhale said, And inside of me there&039;s a connection with Kalona that I can&039;t help But you said no to him and chased him away I did, but I--I have memories that are stuck in my soul, and they have to do ho I was in a different lifeti that lifeti htened aroundto be okay, he said, sounding like he really ure all of this out I don&039;t see how I don&039;t even knohat to do about you There isn&039;t anything to do about me I&039;m with you That&039;s it He paused and then added quickly, like he wanted to get the words out of his mouth, If I have to share you with the vampyres, I will Still in his araze Heath, you are entirely too jealous for me to believe it&039;s okay with you if I&039;uy I didn&039;t say it&039;s okay with me I definitely won&039;t like it, but I don&039;t want to be without you, Zoey That&039;s just too weird, I said

He took my chin in his hand when I tried to look away fro as we&039;re I with you no one else has I can give you so, bad Dracula-wannabes can ever touch I can give you so that even an immortal can&039;t touch I stared at hiht with tears He looked so hteen that it almost scared me I don&039;t want to make you sad, I said I don&039;t want toto send ether Okay, I realize it rong of ether just couldn&039;t work, I curled up in his arms and let him hold me

Yeah, it was selfish of me, but I lost myself in Heath and the touch of my past The way he held me was perfect He didn&039;t try to ainst me He didn&039;t try to feel me up He didn&039;t even offer to cut himself and let me drink his blood, which would have automatically let loose a passion between us that would burn both of us out of control Heath held ently andreally would be okay I could feel his heartbeat againstblood that was there, so warm and so close, but just then what I needed even more than his Imprinted blood was fath of his understanding

And that&039;s the h school sweetheart, truly became my consort