Page 124 of Bitten By Desire
“I really think you should just talk to Bennett,” Callum said. “It’s not my secret to share. But be careful okay?”
“That is not very reassuring.” Zoey put her hands on her hips. “I don’t know what the two of you are up to but I’m totally freaked out. You had me running all over the place in a panic. Seriously, what is going on?”
This maybe didn’t seem like a great time to tell Zoey that Callum was actually a vampire. I wasn’t even sure he wanted anyone to know. Except for me. I leaned closer to him.
Callum Walsh was a vampire. A part of me felt like any second now I’d wake up from a weird dream.
Callum cleared his throat. “Well, Emma’s staying in town.”
Zoey stared at me. “For like…another week? Or…”
“I was kind of hoping I could live here permanently,” I said. There was no way I was leaving now. “If you don’t mind having a roommate.”
Zoey squealed.
“Um…we can talk about that,” Callum said.
I smiled up at him. He hadn’t actually asked…but it kind of seemed like he wanted me to live with him instead.
“So does this mean that the two of you are actually together now? Finally?” Zoey asked.
Callum looked down at me. “Yes.”
The way he stared at me when he said it made me want to kiss every inch of his face. A thousand times yes.
“I think I have a lot to be caught up on,” Zoey said as we reached the gate of her white picket fence. “Callum, would you mind giving us a girls’ night so I can hear all the deets?”
“I guess I can manage one more night without her by my side. But just one more.”
Seriously. Swoon.
“If you could just give us one minute,” I said to Zoey.
“Exactly one. I’m counting.” Zoey opened the gate and hurried inside.
That was weird…I turned to Callum. “Just one more night?”
“It’s been torture being apart from you. I think one more night is all I can bear.”
“Me too.” I pressed my lips together as I stared into his golden eyes. “I’m really tired of all the secrets. Is it maybe okay if I tell Zoey that you’re a vampire?”
He nodded. “If that’s what you want. If you trust her, I trust her. Just swear her to secrecy. I’m not ready to move again so soon.”
“I can do that.” I liked this town too. Well, minus the werecat issue. Fuck, I still had to deal with Bennett. I had a million questions for him and his friends. But I had a million more for Callum. “I still have so many questions for you.”
Zoey’s front door opened. “It’s been a minute! I need you, Emma!” She violently bit into the cucumber she was holding in her hand.
Why was she acting so strange? I was glad I’d asked Callum about her, because the way she’d bit that would have had me very worried that she was a werecat.
“I guess your questions will have to wait until tomorrow,” Callum said. He leaned down and gently pressed his lips against mine.
“Now!” Zoey yelled.
Oh my God.Whatever she wanted must have been an emergency. Because Zoey was a big believer in not interrupting sexy moments. I pulled away from Callum. “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
He nodded. “Sweet dreams, baby.”
I wanted to squeal and skip and dance under the moonlight. But when I walked up to Zoey’s house, all my happiness evaporated when I saw the worry on her face.
