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"Just breathe," he said quietly The cool ocean breeze swept by both of theer before it reached the stabilize and sensed her testing her balance

"What did you … do?" she whispered finally "I'll killa vamp!"

"I didn't vamp you," he replied "I stopped the seizure"

"How?"

"Manipulating sohting back"

Her breath hitched Ashley tried to pull away Still weak from her seizure, she was easy to subdue, and Jonny nuzzled her neck once ripped his ar with my vamps?" he replied

Ashley said nothing

"I take it that's a no," he said, not surprised "I' every confrontation you have with them a personal invitation to pay you a visit"

"Xander -"

"Xander doesn't knohat you're doing If you want to tell hiht" Jonny kept his tone even, his voice calm and firm He wasn't about to let her know just how much he didn't want to have that conversation with Xander

"Let o," she said quietly

"Do you understandanswer" Jonny bit her again, this ti her feel what it was like to have three inch incisors slicing into her neck

Ashley gasped and clawed at his arm He dwelt on her flavor As usual, he mentally deciphered the complex taste unique to each person he'd drunk from Ashley eet, heady, aof an unknown spice It was addicting and ensnared every one of his senses She was co er, especially when coupled with her shapely body squirh to prove his point she wasn't going to escape if he didn't want her to then lifted his head His tongue flickered over the puncture wounds to heal theain

"Yes," she ed

Jonny released her Ashley hurried away and faced him, paler than usual after her seizure She didn't try to retrieve the knife she'd dropped when her episode hit and instead, glared up at hiaze, uncertain why the ocean breeze felt so one from him

"You killed your vamps to save me Why?" she asked suspiciously

"They weren't mine," he replied

She lifted an eyebrow