Page 23 of Enzo

The voices in her head were jumbled, but they asked good questions. What was she thinking? She didn't want to let Ven go after two days. Well, technically it was three days now, and she sure as hell didn't want to let Enzo go. Maybe she was justclinging on because she had lost everything. If that was the case, maybe she needed to lose everything more often.

She looked at Ven, leaning over she took his hands and looked into his blue eyes that were beginning to glow.

"Okay?"

"You want me to stay?"

"I do, and so does Enzo. He went through a lot of trouble getting that room set up for you. I think he planned this before I was even here; my coming just helped move things along."

"Boss?" Ven turned to look at him. His eyes slid half closed, but there was a hopeful sound in his voice that he couldn't totally hide.

"I've been working on this place for a while. You needed a place to go; I have the room." Enzo shrugged, but his voice was low, and Deja could hear how much he cared about Ven.

"We'll never get away with anything now," Ven whispered/screamed. "The boss lives right there."

He took her hand and led her to the window. Sure enough, there was a large house not that far away. That's also when she realized she was in a garage apartment, which meant his garage was huge.

"I'm going to go now," his eyes swept over Deja. "I just wanted to check on you. I'll be back."

"Okay, stay out of trouble." He turned and left after a comment to Enzo.

We're going to have to teach him to talk to girls.

We're gonna have so much fun.

We'll teach him how to protect his heart.Love spoke, they noticed she was still in a dark corner, but now she was facing the world. All the voices in her head gave her a nod. It was a sign of respect.

"Camire." She walked over to Enzo and let him wrap his arms around her as they stood there and swayed just a little.

He took her hand and led her to the couch.

"Are you scared of me?" He asked as he drew her down, so her body was snuggled up against him.

She didn't need the voices in her head to help her out with this one. There was no fear inside of her. None for him or Ven. For the others, well, that was up in the air, but she knew these two would never hurt her.

"No. You don't scare me."

"Maybe I should." He looked at her, green eyes glowing. "I want more from you than to be the bartender at the club. I have since the moment I saw you standing out front with your big brown eyes so wide as you gathered your confidence around you to walk up those steps."

"I was a little nervous," She gave him a teasing smile. "Seeing you and Declyn together is enough to make any female nervous."

"No need to be nervous." He placed his hands in her short hair and tugged gently. "I like your hair, the texture of it and how it curls in between my fingers."

She reached up and touched his hair; it was medium length and softer than silk. "Does your fur feel this way?"

"Our coats? Yeah, they feel like the hair on my head." His finger trailed down her neck; little sparks of pleasure went through her at his touch. "I should have asked, but I didn't. Do you have a mate?"

She shook her head. There was no way she'd be lying here if someone else held her heart.

"There's no one."

"Could there be me?" His voice was low and raspy as he asked in her ear.

How did she answer that? It's not like she just looked at a man, pointed, and said you're the one. On the other hand, her body was going up in flames every time he was around. She wasfeeling the need to do things she wouldn't normally do. It was always important to her to date first.

She knew plenty of females who thought nothing of going to bed with someone on the first or second date. She always envied them. For her, she needed to wait to make sure the reason a man wanted to sleep with her wasn't so that he could say he banged a plus-size female. Over the years she'd learned to be super careful.

For once she didn't want to be careful. "Guard your heart" was a motto she lived by because she knew what happened when you didn't. But guarding her heart didn't stop it from being broken and her ability to love from shutting itself down and saying never again. Her hand went up and caressed Enzo's face.

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