Phoenix Dead (New Adult Dark Romance) (The Vampire Years) by Vremont Ann

Author:Vremont, Ann [Vremont, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: New Adult Vampire Erotic Romance
Publisher: Ann Vremont
Published: 2013-08-18T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

It's hard to be simultaneously happy and miserable, but I did a fair job of being both in the days that followed. At school, I thought almost exclusively of Chris.

He made it easy, always being ready with a smile, never hiding in his office reading gruesome reports about hits ordered by Mexican cartels, never once suggesting I let someone else take me to the Leavers' Ball.

There were no more trips to the greenhouse, but wherever we walked together, we held hands or had an arm around the other's waist. At lunch, we'd pick a distant table, me half on his lap sometimes or my legs draped over him.

Our public displays of affection were so bad the lunch monitor would come by several times each day, rap the table and tell us "Six inches. Remember to leave room for God."

Every third or fourth time, Chris would rap the table back and say something outrageous like, "Only six inches? No wonder he got pissed and flooded the earth."

And then the school day would end, Chris would walk me to the front of the school, no longer letting go of my hand as we left the building. Danny would be standing at his car and it was like a knife in the heart - mine, Danny's and Chris's.

On Thursday, with six days of school left, we were leaving the building and Chris looked from Danny to me and then squeezed my hand. "You still have a thing for him."

I stopped walking, looked at Chris and squeezed his hand back. "I have a thing for you."

"But for him, too." The dark circles were back under his eyes. Not because of Danny but for reasons he wouldn't tell me. He had offered me lies about some more tests and interviews to ensure his scholarship. I knew they were lies by the change in his voice and all the subtle body responses that it would take a heart monitor and blood pressure cuff for anyone else to detect.

But I didn't press him because he didn't press me on my secrets and it all felt like it was going to work out in the end - at least until seventh period was done and the three of us were within a hundred yards of one another.

I gave his hand a little tug. "Look, he's booting me when school is up."

Chris looked over at Danny, studying him intently for a second, and then looked back at me. "No, he's not. He just wants to think he is."

Right now I wasn't worried about Danny or if seeing me standing there holding Chris's hand was hurting him. I was worried about those circles under Chris's eyes, and a dozen other little signs I could catalog but find no explanation for why they worried me.

I caught his free hand and stood facing him. Standing on tiptoe, I kissed him. It was short, but it brought a smile to his face.

My hair was falling over one shoulder. He pushed it to

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