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She shot me a dirty look over her shoulder as she rounded the side of the SUV, heading toward the passenger side

This was going to be one long-ass trip

Three hours in and it was already feeling like a long-ass trip We’d spent tooaround and now there was no e’d reach Osborn by nightfall We’d have to stop so straight through was stupid when the potential for facing anything was high

Josie had been playing the quiet galued to her Nook from the moment I’d climbed behind the wheel and started the SUV, which had been fine withProbably romance Or Harry Potter She see boy wizards But it was around the tiinia and hit Kentucky that she powered the thing off and started staring out the

My fingers tapped on the steering wheel A lot of stuff had been dumped on her in such a short period of tiether like a champ, like…

Like Alex

Fuck

If I could carve out all thoseattached to Alex, I could look at this objectively I could see that Josie had soth Obviously not the physical kind, but strength… It went beyond ht Josie had the irit Mostout they weren’t exactly mortal, that spirits and Titans were after theod of dickdom, would’ve flipped their shit by this point

But she was just staring out the , her profile thoughtful, a little distant Maybe I should have said so--positive reinforceood stuff But the words weren’t there, and every tied

As the tires smoothly ate away the miles, my mind wandered to those moainstthat I was physically attracted to her, and while she was a different type of girl than I noret in her pants and between her legs

It just wasn’t so too good It had only been a handful of days since I’d first seen her and not nearly asrip on restraint slip I wasn’t known forI wanted

And yeah, I wanted her Wanted her in a way that was purely physical and inherent to who I was And it was official Apollo was a bigger idiot than I realized for putting his daughter under hed out loud at that

"What?" Josie asked, looking at "

She was quiet for a ave Erin"

The stateain She was staring at me, the hollows of her cheeks pink "Okay"

"Do you think that ?"