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Finishing off the last of the vamps, Jonny rose and snatched Ashley's arain, this tiic to leak into her She was too fast to stop, but he could slow her down, and he did just that, forcing her muscles to relax the way he often did the woht back either

He Traveled with her out of the restaurant and to the beach nearby

She wrenched free the moment their shoes touched the sand "Get the hell away from me!" she hissed

Jonny was about to read her the riot act for taking on valared up at hiray eyes that bordered on silver at night Her cheeks were flushed, her y for a god Until this moment, he had remembered her only as the delicate, almost too thin seventeen-year-old who tried to kill herself

She'd grown into a woman in the past four years Her body was shapely, her hips flared and breasts large enough to fill his hand Training to fight rendered her toned, and she'd lost what reh cheekbones with natural hollows beneath the in a way feomen were, from the contrast of her dark hair and pale cohs and calves outlined by her snug leggings

What shocked him more? The unfamiliar fire in her eyes or the fact she wasn't the vulnerable girl he left?

"You have a lot of nerve!" She spoke before he could recover froetting near me!"

"Because you'll run and hide behind Xander"

"I won't run and hide," she snapped "I've been waiting for this day for years" She stepped back and shifted the knife he had given her froht hand

He studied her, realization dawning "You're going to fighton vamps but this is insanity," he said, unable to help his amusement "You can't kill me, Ash"

"You destroyed my life and almost killed my cousin I want to repay you for that"

He crossed his ar Ashley to be furious at him four years later "I'ures"

"All right then Come on" He dropped his arms "I'll let you hit od"