Page 82 of Pretty Little Shadow
"So if I picked this one, you wouldn't have an issue with it? "
"Nope. But if you'd rather live in the Shadow District, I can find a new place there. It's not a big deal."
"Your job is here," she pointed out. "And mine is all over the city."
She still wasn't ready to accept that I'd be dropping the café job as soon as she was comfortable with it. There was enough shit for me to do for the Cabinet and some of my family's businesses to stay busy.
"So, I'll live here." She pointed to the mansion on fae row.
She'd dropped thewe.
I tried not to care. Really did. Didn't really succeed.
"I'll have someone get it ready. It'll probably take a few days."
"A few days isn't too bad."
"Nope." I kissed her forehead. Couldn't seem to stop myself. "You seemed to like Kat."
"I do," Rae admitted. "Do you think it's weird that I wasn't socially and emotionally drained after hanging out with her? I usually need like a week off from life after I do things like that."
"You only get emotionally and socially drained after talking to Grayson and the lamia royals," I pointed out.
She made a face. "Yeah."
"Some part of you probably associates all of them with the hell you went through."
"They were the ones who got me out, though." She stared at the ceiling, her eyes darker than usual despite the specks of blue in her eyes that seemed to be spreading. There were definitely more of them than before. The more she drank my blood, the better off she was.
"Maybe you just need more people in your life. If you like Kat, you should hang out with her more. I know she doesn't have many friends. Jonah was the only person she was close to, and he's with Gwen now."
Rae changed the subject. "Would your magic be easier to deal with if you spent your nights with me?"
"It would be, but I’m managing it fine as it is.”
She dropped the binder on the mattress and slid a little closer, so more of her body was on top of mine. "Okay. Stay the night with me. If you want to, obviously."
I dragged her into my arms. "I want to. But I want you to bite me, first."
The smile she gave me was followed by her teeth in my throat.
And my hand in her shorts.
And her mouth on my cock.
She was fucking perfect.
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I wentto Kat's house to watch more of the security footage the next day.
And the next.
And the next.
We graduated from talking about our mates and stalking, to talking about our childhoods. Kat was bizarrely good at getting information out of me.
