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He chuckled "No, I’m not Just come here"

My heart tripped up in ood idea"

"Really?" he ood answer, because what I was thinking was really presumptuous of me When I didn’t answer, he rolled onto his side and extended his arain

Digging in, I shook my head "Why?"

"Because it’ll h reason"

He chuckled again "That wasn’t very nice, Joe"

"I don’t like you," I whispered

His grin spread until it transfore off his beauty "Look I’ers while I dealt with a really weird and really disturbing sense of disappointet some sleep, so I can be alert later on, but it’s hard to do that when you look like you’re seconds away fro toward the door All I want you to do is sit here You can even watch TV I’ll sleep through it, but I need you here, beside me"

I need you

I nibbled on my lower lip Of course, he hadn’t erous coiling low in et control of uy I didn’t even know hty needed to be the furthest things froe I could easily sit on one side while he slept on the other His reasoning sounded logical, and I wasn’t going to be stupid andas he played nice I kneouldn’t be able to defendmy hand on fire

I needed hie, I didn’t take his hand as I put one knee on the bed while still holding the edges of my robe I teetered there for a moment

Seth was onthere, all lazy-like, and the next I was flat onthrown overme in place

With shallow, uneven breaths, I turned rin full ofblack and slender in et the re and practically tackling me?

The fucker was a ninja!

"Want to watch TV?" he asked