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When I get her to the car, I set her down next to it.She smiles up at me, her pink lips stretching.

I have to kiss her.I lean in.Press my lips to hers.Her answering sigh is music.I stroke my tongue against hers, she responds in kind.Tangling my fingers in her ponytail, I tilt her head back.Kiss along her throat.Blow gently beneath her ear, watch her skin pucker with goosebumps.She whimpers, presses against me.

“More,” she says, rubbing her chest against me, trying to hook her leg around mine.

“In you go.”I open the door and step back, even though it’s painful.“If you don’t get in this car, I’ll fuck you right here in the parking lot.”

“That could be fun,” she says, but she turns to get inside the car.

“You’re a little temptress,” I say, smacking her ass as she climbs in.

I go around the car and get behind the wheel.She looks so soft and young perched in her seat.She fumbles with the seatbelt, so I take over, buckling her in.Safe.I need to keep her safe.

But even now, as I’m leaning across her, she lifts her chin, exposing her neck.

Unable to resist, I press a kiss there, right at the center of her throat.I stop there, though, breathing in and out slowly, trying to calm myself.

“You breathe,” she says, holding her hand in front of my mouth.

“Yes.”

She moves her hand down, hovering it over my chest, then places it firmly against my heart.“You have a heartbeat.”

“Yes.”

“You’re…alive?”

“Undead,” I correct.

Wrinkling her nose in confusion, she says, “That doesn’t make any sense.”

“It doesn’t have to.”I lean over farther so I can run my nose along her cheek, kiss her temple.“We aren’t natural; we’resupernatural.Normal rules, common sense, laws of nature—they don’t apply to people like us.”

“So I have to make my peace with not really knowing?”

“Pretty much.Can you do that, little one?”

“Yes, Sir.”

“Good.Let’s go home and I’ll give you a reward.”

She squirms in her seat.Excited.Good.My dick is hard and I’m ready.I’m always ready for her.

The drive to The Corbin is short.I pull into my reserved parking spot.Xander’s place is still empty.Asshole.His loss.

I open Autumn’s door before she has a chance to.She glances up in surprise.“You’re fast.”

“When I need to be.I try not to scare you.”Leaning in as I help her from the car, I say, “Do I scare you?”

She shakes her head.“No.I feel safe with you.”

Her words pierce me.I need to live up to them.

As we’re making our way inside, my phone sounds with Xander’s ringtone.I pull the device from my pocket.“Yes?”

“Look, Gaius is in California.”

“Yeah,” I say.“We expected that.”