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“I don’t lie, babe.”

“Please, that is all your kind does.”

“My kind?” I scoffed at that. “We’re cut from the same patch.”

“Why are you here, Kade? Instead of over there?” She nodded her head in the direction of the party.

“The question is why are you not over there. It’s your party, remember?”

Her face slowly fell to the ground, and she stared down at her feet. Guilt crept through my stomach.Shit, did I say something wrong?

“I don’t have any friends over there. The two friends I do have wouldn’t come because, well...” She looked up. “Kim’s a bitch.”

“So you’re hiding out in there then?” I dipped my head at her bedroom.

“Not much else to do.”

“Fuck that; get dressed.”

Once again those opal blue eyes of hers widened. “What? Why?”

Those scared kitten eyes did something for me. I don’t know if it was healthy or right, but fuck it felt good, and I didn’t want to stop looking into them.

“I’m taking you out, sweetheart.” I leaned forward. Towering over her, I dipped my head to her ear. “You’re legal now, remember? Go get dressed.”

I heard her gulp, and she didn’t pull away from me. Instead, she turned her head and her dangerous eyes locked with mine.

“Give me ten minutes.” She put a hand on my chest and pushed me out the door, shutting it in my face hard. It didn’t even anger me a bit cause I knew she was getting ready to leave with me.

Chapter 6

Reaper

It had seemed like a good idea at the time but by the look on her face, I doubted myself. We were at a party, and she wasn’t into it at all, so taking her to a pub or a club had been scratched out. This seemed like the right idea.

“Seriously?” Abby’s crystal eyes looked up at me, her perfect red lips curved into a smile. “You’re actually going to come in here with me?

“What, babe, don’t want me to?” I faked confidence and pretended that her baby doll face wasn’t causing my stomach to flip around like a bloody teenager who was seeing a girl for the first time.

She chewed that juicy bottom lip before looking up at me again. “I just didn’t think you were the late night shopping kind of guy.”

“I haven’t gotten you a birthday present; seems only right to get you one now.”

I needed her to stop looking at me like that. I needed her to stop batting those long lashes.Come on, baby girl; you’re killing me.

She ran her dainty fingers through her long blonde hair and looked across at the shopping mall. “I’ve never been shopping with a guy before.”

I liked that. Why the fuck did I like that? It was as if a part of me liked being her one and only even if it was just the first guy to take her shopping.

“Well, babe, it’s going to be an experience.” I winked at her and reached out for her hand. Was she going to take it or not? Why the fuck did I reach out for her hand in the first place? All the questions melted away when she did take it. Darn, her hand was cold.

We left the bike in the car park and walked towards the huge shopping mall, which before now, I had no intention of ever entering.

The things you do for a woman.

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I had never seen so much junk and clothes in my life, and we had only been in two stores. I couldn’t understand; it was after one o’clock in the morning, and there were still crowds of shoppers around. I guess that is December for you.