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Marcy turned five shades of red, a bashful srin grew even wider; he folded his arhtly on his heels Melissa rolled her eyes, shoving at him as she pushed him forward a step "You can flirt soh so that Marcy couldn’t hear

"Tolanced briefly back at the aze still focused intently upon her She thought that she should be unnerved, or even a little frightened by his intense scrutiny of her, she wasn’t In fact, she was still thoroughly excited and entranced by it She found herself unable, and unwilling to ed her sharply forward, his displeasure with her still apparent The man quirked a dark eyebrow at her, but other than that he remained completely still

She allowed herself to be pulled away, not because she wanted to leave, or flee froer anymore No, she allowed herself to be pulled forward simply because she didn’t knohat else to do And no aping at the stranger like a complete idiot Which is exactly what she looked like

Cassie shook her head, tearing her gaze away from the man The odd sense of loss enco this tilance back at him, not surprised to find that he had turned to watch theleam in his emerald eyes that sent a shiver of fear and desire down her spine He looked like he wanted to devour her, and she found that she didn’t ht like being devoured by him

That fact just confused and flustered her even more She shouldn’t want this, but she did

Cassie slid theopen and leaned on the sill as she aze "Why don’t you just use the door?"

He shrugged as he heaved hi and raceful It hy he was the star of the football teaave hie "The ’s more fun"

Cassie shook her head as she closed theagain, leaving it slightly cracked to allow the cool Septeh Chris moved swiftly around the roos before hi his elbow on his knee, he snatched the reh the channels, his easy de through hi softly, she walked over to sit beside hi she kneas his ain If he wished to talk about it, he would If not, they would sit silently until he was ready to go to sleep on the air randaze was focused on the TV, but most of his attention was on her "No, she went to the church social tonight There’s left over lasagna in the fridge for you if you want so the reame "Someone did take rin as she shoved lightly on his arm "There were only a few left"

"The last ones are always the best"

Laughing softly, she pushed hiain "Do you want h she knew that was exactly what he was trying to guilt her into doing

He turned to her, s softly as he nodded "Think you oweher head at hirin with the easy charirls couldn’t resist "You’d better!"

Cassie was still shaking her head as she made her way downstairs She may have been born an only child, but she still had an annoying, teek older brother Finding her way easily through the darkened halls she entered the kitchen She didn’t bother with the lights, she could see alhts off as she could with thee open and rerand it, she tossed it into the ainst the sink, she stared out at the dark night, her ebut think about hiht, her every et hie electricity he had created in her

Her body huain, to touch hih her Instinctively she knew that if she could just see his would be better She could not shake the feeling of rightness that had filled her from the moment she laid eyes upon him It was as if she knew hiht filled her with excitement, but also with a level of fear that she couldn’t shake She shouldn’t feel this way about someone she didn’t know It made no sense to feel this intense of a connection with a coical, she could not shake the certainty that what she felt was right and good

She hated it when Chris carateful for the distraction he now offered frohts and eer was back on her mind, back in her systeain until she touched hih she already kneould feel exquisite

If she saw hiain sent her heart racing in fear

Cassie shook her head fiercely, desperately trying to rid herself of her strange, irrational thoughts She was acting crazy, she was feeling crazy Maybe everything that had happened to her over the past four years had finally caused her to lose her mind ‘How many people could actually know of the existence of vao a little crazy?’ she wondered absently

Not aze sharply back to the street The shadows shifted again,down once more Cassie focused intently upon theed froe of the yard

The sudden beep of theher toward the ravated with herself for allowing soer no less She didn’t know him, what she felt for hi her this way Hell, she didn’t even know his nana frolance out theNothing st the shadows, but Chris’s mom had coarette in the other, as she stared into space A htly around her waist Cassie had never seen him before, but then, she rarely saw any of Mary’s men twice in a row

Theher head, she hurried back upstairs, eager to get the food to Chris She was also eager to help ease soer to try and bury so into her room, not at all surprised to find the air mattress already set up "Thanks," he muttered as he took the plate from her

Cassie nodded and plopped herself onto the bed beside hihts that Chris didn’t want to speak; one of the nights when he had no words to convey his unhappiness That was just fine by her, she wasn’tthat she had to know