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“So, you don’t mind if I stay like this… a little while longer?” she sniffs, clearly surprised at my words.
“I want you, vampire or not. You needed time to come to terms with your feelings for me. Obviously, you’ll need time to decide on what comes next. But I’ll still be here, waiting. You’ll just be older than me, though.”
She pulls her head away and her eyes narrow with offense.
“Excuse me? Older than you? You were alive during the peak of dysentery!” she exclaims, and it makes me chuckle and hold her closer.
“Yeah, but you look older than me. What are you now, 28? I literally died at 21, babe. You’re a cougar in my eyes.”
Her mouth drops open. “Oh my god, you’re asking to be punched in the face!” she exclaims, trying to wrestle out of my grasp, but I stop her wriggling by kissing her lips.
She reciprocates by relaxing in my hold and breathing out a content sigh, her lips feeling soft against mine. To say this was unexpected is an understatement; I’m not used to this soft, tame Xenia who doesn’t argue or fight to get her point across.
When I first met her, she tried to stake Pres with a withered plank and headbutt me. There’s a fucking reason I named her hellcat and how she’s a purring kitten in my arms.
“For months I’ve dreamed of this,” I whisper against her lips. “Having you close to me, kissing me, saying you want this… I never thought it would happen.”
She chuckles and lays her head on my chest. “It was always going to happen, Beast. We were both too fucking stubborn to give in first.”
“Not to cause a fight or anything, but you gave in first,” she’s about to argue when I put two fingers to her lips. “However, you got me to go on my knees first. I’d say we’re equal.”
This seems to calm her down, and she relaxes in my arms again. I meant what I said earlier; I want her to be sure about this, so for now we’ll be ‘dating’ so to speak, before we move on to the next step.
If she decides to Entwine now and turn later, I’ll happily do that too. As long as she’s mine and no one else gets to fucking touch her.
My cell phone rings on my nightstand at that moment and we break off the embrace. “I’ll go check on Kat,” she says, giving me some privacy because we both know that it can only be Pres calling.
I pick up the phone and see his name on the Caller ID and answer just as I sit down on the bed.
“Pres,”
“Church. You didn’t check in with me when you arrived yesterday, everything okay?” Oh, fuck me! I was so pissed off about being here that I didn’t even fill him in about things here!
“Fuck, Pres! I’m sorry about that. Things got a little… heated in the wrong way with Xenia. Kat is here, she’s safe, and she’s fed,”
He sighs. “Thank fuck. How does she look? Did she mention who is feeding her?”
Fuck - all these questions.
“She looks exhausted but healthy, and no, I didn’t think to ask where she got the blood bags from, sorry Pres,” I can’t lie to him anymore, not after what happened. “When will you be here?”
He breathes out, and I hear him sitting down on a leather chair. “Probably within a week or so. I just wanted to know if she’s okay or not. Are you sure there’s nothing else? Nothing amiss?”
If I had a beating heart, it would give me away right fucking now. There’s no way I’m telling him about Kat’s pregnancy since it’s not my secret to tell. But I can make him hurry the fuck up and get here.
Sighing, I lean forward and pinch the bridge of my nose. “There is something… but I can’t tell you what it is, Pres—”
“What the fuck do you mean you can’t tell me?” he shouts and I have to hold the cell phone away from my ear before I fucking turn deaf. “Tell me right now what it is.”
“Pres, I really can’t tell you—”
“Why the fuck not?!”
“Because it’s for Kat to tell you, not me,” I huff out an annoyed breath. “Trust me on this, okay? I can’t tell you, you need to come here and see for yourself.”
A five-second silence before he says, “I’ll be there tomorrow,” and kills the call.
I blink and stare at nothing when I realize what he’s just said; he’s coming here tomorrow. Thank fuck, maybe now things can go back to normal!
