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“Oh!” A perfect excuse for some distance. I owed Tess flowers. “No, thanks. I’ll get it.”

I clutched the blanket to my naked body as I climbed off the bed, then moved through to my suite.

“Tess, hey. Give me one second,” I said, placing the phone on the counter, and rushing into the bathroom to clean up.

It was a moment when anyone else would be panicking—not using protection and all that. But vampires’ cold bodies made it impossible for them to carry any diseases, and they weren’t able to reproduce.

“Okay. Sorry. I’m back.” I took her with me into the bathroom for privacy, sitting on the edge of the tub.

“Um, I know a post-coital clean-up rush when I hear one.”

How did she do that?

“Oh, my God. You’re not denying it. Did it finally happen? Did you two do it? How was it? Were fangs involved? Was his junk cold? Did that make it hotter?”

“Yes. Yes. Amazing. No. Yes. And yes.”

“Hells above. I can’t believe it! I mean, I can. You two have totally been sparking. But I can’t believe you let go enough to actually hook up with him. Good for you.”

“Thanks. I think.”

“Uh-oh, you sound conflicted.”

“I am.”

“Because you work with him?”

Among other things.

“Yes.”

“I mean, I think if anyone is not going to make a big deal about a simple hook-up, it’s going to be the immortal who has already seen and done it all.”

“I guess.”

“You’re getting in your head about it. Stop that. Just enjoy it. You’ve been so tense lately. You deserve to just… enjoy this.” There was a pause. “Okay. I know you. I know that’s probably asking for too much. How about this: you enjoy it until you get back to Seattle.”

I knew it was my own selfishness that had me suddenly agreeing with Tess.

Why couldn’t we just enjoy it for the next few days?

Then, as soon as we got back home, I would go to his place, sit him down, and spill everything.

Or, at least, that was the plan…

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

[ “THE REAL PHENOMENON isn’t that you changed. It’s that you let yourself.”

— Shifting for Beginners - Episode 22]

Silas

I’d been around a long time.

And while language and customs changed over time, humans had been refreshingly similar throughout history.

Until her.