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Balthazar raised an eyebrow at the realization that Tonia had been giving Skye a difficult time, but that was hardly the most important subject for theht

For what?

For going further than I should’ve gone

I was hoping you were going to say, for leaving too soon

The idea of lingering longer in Skye’s bedrooly, but Balthazar pushed it away I think you’re a involved with humans--it’s a line I don’t cross

There’s a first tilanced up from his phone to look at her the precise moment she did the same As their eyeshi and slim and toned they were

A bold move--but her eyes told the true story There he could see her uncertainty, her vulnerability Whatever it was, that ility struck deep within him

Balthazar’s response was asmore than friends

I hear you, Skye sent back, which seely reasonable--until the next line arrived But nobody said I had to make it easy for you

He should have been exasperated Concerned So like that

Instead, it was all he could do to keep fro

Madison walked as far as Skye’s house with her, so Balthazar followed the Skye when she earing a long puffer coat that hid those legs Yet as they wound their way through to her house, Balthazar began to sense it--that faint energy in the air, thick and o of a storm