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By the intensity of his look, he was assessing her as she neared His unnerving way of reading her condition left her a little more uncertain than she'd been with him The distance between them seemed to be both too far and too close, and she stopped several feet away

"How are you feeling?" he asked quietly

"Good enough," she replied

The quiet between them ard

He cleared his throat "I'm happy you called"

"Well, I kind of needed a ride," she said, starting to smile "I feel like I need a vacation"

"To where?"

"Some place warleaht need my own room," she mused mischievously

"Fuck no"

Her body flushed ariddiness soaring through her Unable to take the distance between the her arhed into her hair "Are you ready to come home?"

"You're, like, four years late to the party"

"I'll make it up to you I promise," he whispered

"You're sure this time?" she asked and leaned her head back to see his face

Jonny cupped the side of her face "Are you sure you want the Black God in your life?"

"This may cohed, a pleasantly warured that out," he teased "I' trying not to love you I want to spend the rest of our lives showing you how much I care about you"

Speechless at the senti her eyes

He rested his forehead against hers, and she breathed his scent in deeply "Thank you," he h to love ht for soh "I love you, too, Jonny Freaky Black God powers, fangs and all" She winked "Like I said The va her head aside, he nipped at her neck before sinking his fangs into her He sipped rather than drank before withdrawing from her neck "Just had to make sure you're up for what I have in rinned wickedly "Why don't we go find out?"

Ashley laughed, unable to recall when she'd last been this happy