Jeri Smith-Ready - WVMP Radio 1 - Wicked Game.wps by Crystal; Billy

Author:Crystal; Billy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-12-09T19:13:40.432374+00:00

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"But you didn't recognize him."

"Why would I?" He props his arms on the roof and peers in at me. "Could be one of your old boyfriends."

"I'd never date a smoker. Especially not menthols, yuck."

He chuckles. "Hypocrite. You had a cigarette with Deirdre."

"Who?"

"My donor, the one we visited."

"Great. Now I know her name. Now if I see her in the produce aisle, I can say, 'Hi Deirdre, how's your torso? Any new holes?'"

"You sound jealous." Shane sits in the passenger's seat and tugs me into his lap without a struggle. "You sound like a girlfriend." He strokes my cheek with the back of his hand.

"I'd like you to be my girlfriend."

My stomach flips, but I remember Regina's warning about hurting him. "That's sweet, Shane, but can't we just enjoy each other? Going steady is so old-fashioned."

He sighs. "1 hate the new millennium."

"Now who's the hypocrite? You put your hands all over those women you bice, yet you expect me to sit at home in a sackcloth."

"It's different. I have to drink, you don't have to see other guys." He runs a finger down the side seam of my camisole, "Besides, you'd look damn sexy in a sackcloth."

I push him away, a few inches. "It's not different. You would have slept with Deirdre that night if I weren't there. In fact, drinking blood is probably a great excuse to get laid, not the other way around."

"What if I stopped drinking women? I could make some trades with the other vampires.

Would that change your mind?"

"You'd do that for me?"

"I already did." He brushes the hair out of my eyes. "The last woman was Deirdre, the night you came with me to visit her."

My chest constricts, and I wipe my hand over my forehead. "Shane, I can't be your girlfriend."

His face falls. "Why not? I thought we were over the whole Beauty and the Beast issue."

"Not when I'm still a beast."

"I don't get it."

"You want the truth? It's not pretty."

"It usually isn't."

I move clumsily out of his embrace, back into the driver's seat. "You remember that guy, the one David told you about? The one who wouldn't press charges after I conned him?"

"Mark, right?"

"That wasn't his name. That was his function."

"Whatever."

"It's not whatever." I take a deep breath. "He was my boyfriend."

He blinks hard. "You conned your last boyfriend? Out of how much?"

"He only thought he was my boyfriend." I run my hands over the steering wheel. "Okay, rewind. I've always scraped by on short cons, the kind that take a few minutes or a couple hours. Bar bets, card tricks, pool hustling. Sometimes I'd join up with another con to do pigeon drops or the badger game." I pause, waiting for him to ask what those are. He

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