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Della stopped, her gaze zipping around to locate the screamer Steve jerked her into the dark shadows A wo like the devil was chasing her And he ht on her heels
Aso close she could feel his words against her cheek
They were too far away to note the pattern in their foreheads whichall supernaturals could see-but Steve obviously trusted her sense of smell She inhaled and tried to find the scents in the air besides the spicy male soap that filled her nose "Huirl screa in tow, beat Steve to the scuffle Thethe woed the creep off the obvious victih to kill hih to hurt when he came down
Blood oozed from the woman&039;s nose and mouth "You okay?" Della asked and crouched beside her When the scent of blood filled her nose, Della had to work at not letting her eyes start to glow froer
"Yeah" The woman sobbed out the word "He&039;s my husband, but he&039;s drunk" She wiped blood froets mean when he drinks"
But he wasn&039;t the only one drinking Della could smell booze on the woman&039;s breath
"This wasn&039;t your problem," a deep voice seethed from behind Della If she hadn&039;t been so intent on the wolanced up Loo over them stood the drunk husband, who she obviously hadn&039;t thrown nearly hard enough Of course, that could be fixed
He reached for Della, fury in his eyes and alcohol on his breath "But you made it your probleht theDella heard what sounded like a few punches hitting bone She could swear the jerk got a punch in on Steve Bolting to her feet with plans to end the fight, Steve ended it first He threw a hard right The woht directly to the face and fell over cold
It would have been nice to savor the hts appeared at the end of the alley Steve turned to Della "We need to get the hell out of here"
Della grabbed her bag and they took off at a sprint In the distance she heard the cops yelling for everyone to stop They didn&039;t They couldn&039;t
Burnett hadn&039;t been specific about the he&039;d frown upon it
"Police! I said stop," the police their way down the alley
They cut the corner into a side alley, and Della didn&039;t know if they had ti their escape
The refrigerator at the cabin didn&039;t have an ice lad it had one ice tray with five pieces of ice in it She emptied the five tiny cubes into a new pillowcase and handed it to Steve His eye was alainst your eye," she said
They&039;d gotten away from the police, but barely She stared at Steve&039;s injury
"Why didn&039;t you change into so and maul his ass?" she bit out
"You don&039;t transform in front of hu rule"
"I&039;d think the number one rule would be to protect yourself"
"You&039;d think wrong," Steve said
She shook her head "They were both drunk, ould&039;ve believed them?"
He cut his eyes up to her "What about when the cops showed up?"
She frowned, seeing his point, but still not liking it "Put the ice on your eye" After a second she said, "So you&039;re supposed to let the?"
Steve dropped the ice froround e left?"
Della groaned "You should have let nored her and reached up to touch his eye "Heythis will look good for toht"
Della rolled her eyes at him the way Miranda rolled hers at everyone "But you just broke one of Burnett&039;s rules You&039;re gonna corinned "I&039;ll tell him you did it"
Della plopped down on the old pine chest that served as a coffee table "He&039;d know that wasn&039;t true, even if he couldn&039;t hear your heart lie If you pissed me off, I wouldn&039;t have stopped at a black eye You&039;d be black-and-blue all over"
"Now that&039;s just an outright lie I don&039;t think you&039;d hurt ain
"And you&039;d be wrong" She paused "Where are you from?"
"Where do you think I&039;m from?" He smiled as if her question pleased him
And she knehy She&039;d shown some personal interest in hiht think she actually liked hi
"I think you&039;re from somewhere where they talk funny," she serator She found a cup, rinsed it out-twice-poured her dinner into it, and sat down at the kitchen table
He dropped into the second chair at the table "I&039;o"
"You don&039;t like Texas?" she asked and frohen she realized she&039;d done it again, shown a personal interest Then again, ive herself a break, they were on a irlfriend If so, she should be able to answer it
"Since I went to camp this last summer, I do Before thatnot really The school in Dallas was some fancy prep school-not even for supernaturals That school fitand life, but I don&039;t do fancy schools very well"
She couldn&039;t see him in one, either Not that he didn&039;t see than someone anted to put on airs
A few more questions popped into her mind, but she hesitated to ask She turned her cup in her hands
The silence must have felt aard to him as well, because he continued "My dad&039;s a CEO for an oil company, Mom&039;s a doctor And I&039;m an only child who&039;s not supposed to care what I want but to just grow up, becoood in the huht?" she asked
"Yeah, but you&039;d hardly know it I don&039;t think my mom has shifted in a couple of years Dad does it just to relieve stress, but they like living in the hu about how often she wished she could go back to the human world and be one of the she could kick ass But she wished that gaining these powers hadn&039;tso much of her life Or rather the people ere in her life
"I don&039;t want to run off and join a da, but I&039; myself in front of humans I don&039;t have a problem with rules, but I don&039;t want to hide from this part of myself"
"I don&039;t blame you" She didn&039;t think she could hide, either Not now
"I&039; about the as we don&039;t have to see each other very often we forget that we&039;re all disappointed in each other"
She knew all about the feeling of disappointing your parents Exhaling, she looked at the pillowcase, which was bunched up at the end and held the five pieces of ice He&039;d brought it with hi it "You should use that That&039;s all the ice we have"
He put it against his eye and stared at her with the other "What&039;s your story?"