Page 134 of Bitten By Desire
“You can’t have someone else do something to him either. Like…poison or something.”
Bennett finally smiled. “We’re not going to hurt him or have anyone else hurt him.”
Okay. That was good enough for me. “And in return, I’ll get Callum to let you keep the pocket watch. Deal?” I put my hand out for Bennett to shake.
Bennett didn’t move.
“Do we have to do another blood oath or something?” I asked.
Titan laughed. “That won’t be necessary. We trust you. And I hope you trust us too.” He shook my hand. “I’ll give you two a minute.” He left Bennett and I alone in the kitchen.
“Deal?” I said again, this time holding my hand out to Bennett.
“Are you sure? That you love him?” His eyes searched mine.
“I’m sure. I’ve been sure for years.” I knew how pathetic that sounded. That after just one night I’d given my heart to someone. But it was the truth.
“Promise you’ll be careful?”
I smiled. “I promise.”
“Put that away,” he said and swatted my hand down, before pulling me into a hug. He rested his chin on the top of my head. “I thought you were the one, Emma.”
I started blinking fast. I wished I could be his person. But…I wasn’t. I really wanted him to be happy though. He wasn’t a monster. And he deserved the whole world. “You’ll find someone.” I hugged him back. “I feel like Zoey has a thing for you.”
He laughed and pulled back. “Yeah, but she has a thing for everyone else in town too. I can’t really picture her settling down.”
I shrugged. “Maybe in a few years.”
He reached out and tucked a loose strand of hair behind my ear. His eyes trailed down the side of my neck. “Don’t let him change you, Emma. You’re perfect just the way you are.”
“Thank you.” I didn’t know if he meant change my personality somehow. Or…change me. As in, change me into a vampire. I tried not to shudder. I had no idea what that entailed. But now that he’d said it, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
“See you around town, Emma,” Bennett said. He gave me one last smile and walked out of the kitchen.
I knew I was making the right choice. But my heart hurt knowing that I’d hurt Bennett. I really hoped that one day we could be just friends. Although…it was going to take me a while to be comfortable with the whole werecat thing. I wanted to believe that they had it under control. But I’d seen Bennett out of control. And one of them had freaking killed someone in the hay maze.
But maybe that wouldn’t have happened if Bennett hadn’t been preoccupied with me on the Ferris wheel. It was just as much my fault as it was anyone else’s. And the least I could do was make sure it didn’t happen again. Bennett and his friends needed that pocket watch. And Callum didn’t. I just had to prove to Callum that they weren’t using it in bad ways. The ways Callum admitted to using it. Callum and I still had a lot to talk about.
I walked out of the kitchen to see Zoey still on her knees licking the side of the banana really slowly. All the guys were staring at her.
Oh God.It looked like something X-rated was about to go down. And even though it wasn’t my house…I still felt like it shouldn’t be happening in the middle of the family room.
I cleared my throat.
Ace and Huxley tore their eyes away from Zoey at the same time.
“Uh…we should be going,” Ace said.
Otto shrugged. “I mean, I’m not busy.” He winked at Zoey.
And then she deepthroated the whole banana. All the way.
How the hell was she doing that?!
“Nope. We’re going. Now,” Titan said.
They turned to leave.
