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"Ashley"

"You, uh, wanna dance?"

"Nah I' How about a walk?"

She hesitated

"Public place so you know I'm not a creeper," he added

If she could handle a va It wasn't the potential for a physical confrontation she feared but the knowledge she knew nothing about the boy before her, like if he were secretly a god ould put her faer

Four years later, and Jonny is still in my head She hated the reminder This ends now

"Yes," she decided "Let's go for a walk"

He stretched back to reach the bar and placed his drink on the counter then held out his hand for hers She returned it to hi bar and into the street, where the ocean breeze began cooling her at once "What year are you?" she asked and looked up at the stranger beside her

"Masters prograain, she added silently School wasn't her favorite thing "Finally picked a h "I don't think I can do a Masters Undergrad is hard enough"

"Just depends on what you want to do in life" His gaze was on their path "You wanna see the new fountain?"

"What new fountain?"

"They put in a new naval memorial at the end of the strip"

"I'ht She'd been completely obsessed with vamps the past fewelse like the new memorial or Brandon's new electronics until she stuo see it"

Shane pointed in the direction of the memorial and they crossed the street He was funny and easy to talk to, and she found herself enjoying the walk e of the busy section and continued onward Her senses were alert to their surroundings

The crowds had petered out by the time they reached the area where the new memorial was supposed to be Ashley looked around without spotting it, though her instincts were picking up on so else People in the shadows followed the to do with her were va they'd finally found her somehow The predators were known to stalk huht they could find her

Had she done so to tip them off? She'd been chased by several and always led thee to check all her clothing for GPS markers, the kind Xander used to use on her and Brandon when they first left the house