Page 46 of Suck This

I gritted my teeth.

“Because you don’t belong in this world,” I told her bluntly. “You’re everything that I’m not. You thrive during the day, while I live in the night. You have a job with the police department, while I do everything in my power to stay away from anything that is law enforcement. And to top it all off, you’re not what I want.”

She stared at me like a deer caught in the headlights.

“Not what you want.”

That was said with such a deathly quiet tone that I nearly winced.

Nearly.

“You don’t want to be in my world, princess,” I told her. “I was a Viking. I’m a man that is used to having everything he wants, and not taking no for an answer. Is that what you want to live with the rest of your life? Are you willing to become a vampire? You would be saying goodbye to your world as you know it.”

Her eyes had gone wide, and I saw instantly that she hadn’t thought much past the present.

“Go home,” I ordered. “And stop coming around here.”

She got up, her face as white as a sheet, and walked out. Not once looking back.

I got up, too, following her out.

She didn’t look back at me, but she knew I was there.

And as she hailed a cab and got in, sparing me once last glance, I realized two things.

One, I was further gone than I thought.

And two, I sure as hell hoped I had it in me to let her stay gone.

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