Page 104 of Volik

I smile down at her. “You are so pretty.”

She narrows her eyes even more. “I’m not quitting my job.”

I grunt. “You do not need to work. But if it makes you happy, I will not interfere.”

Nix opens her mouth, then loses her words to a yawn.

“Also.” I decide to carry on. “You can move in with me, when you are ready. Tonight. Ideally.”

Wide eyes look up at me. “Tonight?”

I nod. “Ideally.”

“Volik—”

“I have a lot of money.”

Nix lets out an adorable snort, then drops her forehead to my chest.

“What?”

She shakes her head against me.

“Was that too formal?” I clear my throat. “I’ve got lots of money.”

Nix is still shaking her head, but she’s smiling when she looks back up at me. “You are absurd.” She enunciates the words.

She’s teasing me.

I grin.

Her eyes drop to my mouth. And her lust shoves my pulse higher.

“We can do that too. Instead of going to work.”

Nix blinks. “What time is it?”

I shrug. “Dawn is rising.”

“Shit.” Palms press against my chest, and Nix pushes herself up until she’s sitting on my stomach. Knees on either side of me.

She rubs her eyes and looks at the clock. Then looks down at me.

My head is on her pillow, and my feet are hanging off the end of the mattress, my heels on the floor.

Her fingers trace absently against my skin. “Did we sleep like this all night?”

I grip her hips and hold her in place. “Yes. Though, I did not sleep.”

Her brows furrow. “At all?”

“Most nights I do not.”

Nix opens her mouth, then shakes her head. “Is that because you can’t sleep or because you don’t need to?”

“Do not need to.” I lift a shoulder. “Vampires sleep an hour, maybe two, a month. More if there is a large shift in our power. Either using it or getting it. As I learned the night before last.”

“You slept that first night?”