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“I really don’t feel comfortable with that,” he said. “It’s not my secret to share.”
“Cut it out with the gentleman’s honor thing. We both know you’re not always a gentleman,Theo.” I emphasized his fake name that he’d tormented me with.
He smiled. “I was trying to protect you.”
“Fine, but you’re not a gentleman in the bedroom.”
“Hmm.” His hands slid to my ass.
I swatted them away. “I’m serious, Callum. I need you to tell Zoey the truth. Because I physically can’t. You didn’t want me to date Bennett because he was dangerous. And I don’t want Zoey to date Otto because he’s dangerous. Every time I warn her that Otto is a bad, dangerous boy, it just makes her want him even more. I’m at a loss. Please.”
“How exactly do you want me to present the news that she’s falling for an immature supernatural creature?”
“I don’t know…just tell her the way you told me about yourself?”
“You want me to fuck her at the train station?”
I laughed and pushed his arm. “No. I just want you to tell her the truth. We’ll console her together. We’ll do it tonight. After dinner.”
He sighed. “Okay. You know I’d do anything for you, Emma.”
I knew. He’d given up what he craved most for me. I wished Otto could do that for Zoey. But I wasn’t exactly sure what Otto craved most. It seemed like he just loved blood and carnage.
Chapter 10
Thursday
Zoey
The moon disappeared behind a cloud for a moment and I shivered. I pulled my jacket tighter around myself as I walked toward Otto’s house.
I couldn’t believe that Emma was worried about me.Me.When she was the one dating a vampire who was fond of biting her neck. I was pretty sure I’d aged five years overnight worrying about her.
And I couldn’t get King’s warning out of my head. He’d asked me if I’d seen anything peculiar in town recently. I’d said no. But I had forgotten about something very important.The freaking hay maze massacre!
What if King was right and vampires made other supernatural creatures show up. And…what if they were already here?
Callum claimed he hadn’t killed those people at the Fall Festival last weekend. I wanted to believe him. I really, really wanted to believe him. But at the same time, if it wasn’t him who’d killed those people…who was it?
Vampires bit your neck and drained the life out of you. They didn’t leave disembodied hands in a family hay maze. That was something else. Something even more horrifying then a vampire. I’d originally thought itwas a serial killer. But I was worried this screamed more supernatural than normal psychopath.
I shivered again. I should have told Otto to pick me up. Before Emma had come to visit, I thought I was living in the safest town ever. Now I was scared to walk down the street.
I sighed. This wasn’t me. I wasn’t scared of the tiniest thing.Gah!But vampires and other supernatural creatures weren’t just a tiny thing. Maybe I should have let King send me his bodyguards. But there was no reason that two strangers would be better at protecting me from vampires than someone already here.
Otto didn’t want to date me. He’d made that clear. Kind of. Either way, tonight wasn’t about that. For the first time ever, I wasn’t propositioning a hot guy for sex. I was propositioning him to protect me.
I turned off Main Street and past a few houses until I was standing outside Otto’s house. Hishugehouse.
As a thief, I knew he was probably wealthy. But damn, this was nice. It looked a lot like my house only twice as big. Why did one person need this much space?
I opened the white picket fence and walked up the sidewalk, past the manicured hedges. Everything about this house screamed family man. And I wondered if that was just for show. A thief hiding in plain sight among us. Or maybe he truly wanted to be a family man soon. His friend, Bennett, had told me that Otto was looking for something serious. He probably wanted to fill this whole house with kids. Not my kids though. Because I was the undatable one.Asshole.
Before I was able to knock, Otto opened the door. His hair was wet and he was wearing a pair of grey sweatpants and a fitted t-shirt.
Why did he have to look so yummy?
“Hey.” He gave me that smile that made my heart beat funny in my chest. And then he looked both ways, like he was worried someone would see me. He grabbed my arm and pulled me inside.
