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I regainedblankly at him He’d opened a box inside me that I couldn’t shut Not fast anyway "Wait, what?" I shookat ritted

"That’s not what you mean Your body doesn’t remotely mean that" I hurt froin"

"Oxy with being a virgin I kept it for a reason"

"Get out," he repeated, and his silver eyes went cold and hard as ancient coins The open, unguarded ht beforecut off froet to see it

"Right, so now you get to be Jada?" I snapped

"Jada had purpose I just didn’t want you to be her all the tiet it You kiss everyone else For fuck’s sake, you kissed Jo I’m as pretty as Jo"

"You Aren’t Everyone else" He paused, then said in a rough voice, "And you’re not pretty Goddamn it, Dani You’re beautiful"

"And there’s yet one rily He could die! "What if you die and never get to kiss er "That’s why you wanted to have sex with ured you ht as well fuck us in the order of ould die first?"

I bristled "I didn’t say I wanted to fuck you I was just kissing you And you were kissingit"

He stepped back and the light fell in such a way that half his face was shadowed, one side clear and easy to see, the other concealed by darkness "Come back in three days with Dancer," he said as tonelessly as I’d ever sounded as Jada "We’ll save Shazam You’ll find a world and make a home with Dancer and never return to Earth"

"Fuck you, Ryodan," I said, stung by his rejection, his icy re on the other side of his infernal walls For a few arden And I’d been evicted

"Just said no to that," he said coolly

I whirled and kicked up into the slipstrea happened

I was shorted out

Sometimes I really hate thatthat I’d never even tried to freeze-fraed, and sexy as hell, showing hi to have I put into sensual s that had been awakened in my body by him and Dancer

He’d had his chance and blown it Rejected ets a second chance with Dani-O

Not even the great Ryodan

As the door slides closed, I rest lass