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"Absolutely sure"

With a growl, his fangs fully descended, the bright white tips peeking out between his parted lips, his body seeer over her as his ani her hands on his, she helped hiain, the ringing sound cutting through the sizzle, halting the pants-off process before it even got started

"Do you want to get that?" he said in a guttural voice

"No, I--" She cursed "It’s ht"

He’d probably called while she’d been in the shower And knowing hi until he reat

"Are you sure you don’t want to answer that?" Silas pro noise

"Gi her shirt, she held it to her bare breasts and slid out fro around because the straps were still up on her shoulders With her damp hair, and her all-undone, and a bitch of an ache in her lower body, she reached for the phone just as the call went into voice off the bra, she pulled the shirt over her head and took a deep breath Then she called her dad back

As she waited for the male to pick up, she had to face away fro back on the sofa cushions with his own version of --not the kind of sexy display you wanted to be staring at when your father--

"Hi, Dad! Oh, yeah, no, I’ht into the shower, and then I was fixing so to eat and left my phone in my purse What? I know Uh-huh Yup Of course She is? Oh, that’s--what? Ah…sure I’d love to Looking forward to it No, it’ll just be ht--look, Dad, I’ cold I love you, too Yes, I paid the cable No, I have plenty of rown up now Okay Love--love you Yup…okay Bye"

As she tried to get off, she leaned down closer and closer to the coffee table, like she was on an old-fashioned phone that had a receiver you could hang up

And then she was free and turning back around

Silas was indeed in lounging recline on the couch, one ar on a throw pillow he’d put on his lap for a good reason But it looked like "dinner" had absolutely cooled His face was reh not, she sensed, because he was ready to jump her anymore

"That was my dad," she said Duh

"There’s a lot of love there I can tell" He so I drove here, and I need to leave now before it gets too light"

Ivie crossed her arms over her chest "Okay"

After a ot to his feet "Can I coet off work?"

Her brows lifted "Yes Please That would be great"

"All right I’ave her was a shadow of the ones that stretched his cheeks and flashed his teeth, and it was hard not to ask hi But come on, she told herself They had both been into it And then her father had called And then thethe sa up, she went to hied, she closed her eyes and laid her head on his pecs "I’lad you came over"

I’m also confused And stupidly worried And really disappointed we stopped

Ivie kept all that to herself It was so close to dawn and she didn’t want hi into an accident, just because she started a conversation that was possibly a big one Besides, what she was really doing was grasping around for so he illing to articulate what had changed for hiive her what she was really after

Which was soet hurt Let down Disappointed

Silas was the one who pulled away, but he stopped at her door "I’m so sorry"

His voice was strained, and for a second, she weakened and wanted to beg hiure stuff out

"Don’t be" She ood"

"I’ht, right? So it’ll be fine"