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"Oh rave robber" Raven sla wheel as it clicks "We so have to go over there"

"Don’t even think about," I hiss, but she’s already turning the steering wheel "You just said it yourself--he’s a grave robber"

Her eyes sparkle mischievously and I slouch in the chair as she drives toward his house

"What’s your proble down the radio as she pulls up to the curb "Don’t you want to find out who he is? And why he was digging up a grave in the ht Ion and now he could explain it to you"

I shakemy hair fall forward "Why? So you can date him?"

"Or maybe you could?" She parks in front of the Jeep "You really need to get over this fear of o to bars with fake IDs, get laid whenever ant to; yet, you’re so God dauy"

"Because I can’t Not because I don’t want to" I’ annoyed with her "Do you knohat it would be like to kiss a guy… and feel his death course through you at the same time?" I shake my head when she rolls her eyes atto "

"You are so freaking weird so the button on the door, she rolls down theand waves hier to his hips, his legs taking long strides, and there’s cockiness in the way he moves Each step states self-assurance and sex pretty much drips off him as he bends down and rests his ar us in leisurely

"Hi there, gorgeous," Raven purrs in a seductive tone as she slides her finger up his ar into Old Man Carey’s house and we thought we’d come over and introduce ourselves"

"Old Man Carey’s?" He cocks his head, auish "I assurandfather"

"Oh, he was your grandfather?" Raven presses her hand to her heart "I was so sorry to hear that he died"

"You knew hier asks with doubt "Really?"

"Oh yeah, I used to bring him soup all the time when he was sick" She licks her lips slowly "I was very heartbroken when he died"

"I bet you were" His eyes focus on et your notebook back, Eether, shocked I thought he’d deny he knewthe circuhten up in the seat and tuckit off at my house"

"I could tell it was iaze penetrates under et e?"

"You ot it… It was sad and beautiful"

"But did you get it, get it?" His voice hauntingly floats out like the night I first saw hi for my response

"I’m not sure…" I can’t takeinside my body like liquid fire in e of a cliff, preparing to base jump, but I’m not sure if the parachute will open

"Read it closer" His eyes sasp escapes et it eventually"

I’d blush if I wasn’t so sexually riled up on the inside "I’m sure I will"

Raven clears her throat and her tone is snippy "Sorry to break up your guys’ little mo each other" She rolls her eyes "But we gotta get going"

I blink at the sound of her voice I’d forgot she was there "Yeah, we should get going"

"Right…" He pats the car door as he ducks his head and steps away "Maybe I’ll see you around later tonight, Ember" He winks at me "At the cemetery"

My stomach flutters with fear and exhilaration "Yeah, maybe"

Raven rolls the car forward and he starts to walk away

"Wait," I call out and he stops "You never toldeyebrow at me "Don’t you rin "Ca up to thethe back of the U-Haul

Raven rolls up herand turns the car around, heading for the main road "Okay, what the fuck was that about? Since when are you such a little slut?"

"I wasn’t being a slut," I protest, not taking it personally, because Raven calls just about anyone a slut "I was being friendly"

"You never talk to guys like that," she accuses, flooring the car to the end of our street, and then she veers to the right and speeds off onto the highway "And how did he know your name? And where you live?"