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“Why?”
    Pressing his forehead against hers, he answered honestly. “Because I care about you.”
    His words barely registered in her already overloaded and tired brain. She was dealing with too much as it was.
    The look in his eyes caught her attention, though. She saw desire in their blue depths and suddenly she knew that he'd help her forget.
    Forget about the vampire downstairs.
    About her family's murder.
    Her pain.
    For one night.
    Placing her palms on either side of his face, she brought his mouth back to hers and kissed him hard. His fingers tightened on her waist and the ones in her hair readjusted to get a better grip and he angled her head up so he could deepen the kiss. Moaning into his mouth she shifted one of her hands up into his black hair and tangled it in his inky locks.
    “ Charlie,” he breathed.
    Fisting his shirt in her hand, she slipped the key-card in the slot again and opened her door. As she crossed the threshold, she was met with resistance and looked up at him with heavy-lidded eyes questioningly.
    His eyes met hers and he shook his head slowly, “Not like this.”
    “ Like what?”
    “ Like this!” He growled, indicating her, “When you're that emotionally out of it that anyone will do. I don’t want to be just anyone, Charlie. I want it to matter between us.”
    Charlotte took in his strained face and suddenly felt terrible. It wasn’t fair of her to do that to him. Dropping her gaze from his blue ones, she stared at her scuffed boots. “I'm sorry.”
    Sebastian let out a puff of air, “Don't be. I just wish you'd trust me enough to tell me what's going on with you right now; between you and that vampire downstairs that's causing you to act like this.”
    She swallowed hard and shook her head. “I'm not ready yet.”
    “Well, I'll be around when you are.”
     

Chapter Seven
     
    Charlotte was awoken early the following morning by her alarm and groaned. Cracking her eyes open, she squinted at the red numbers and groaned again before burying her face in her pillow.
    She'd had about three hours sleep. Not nearly enough for her to function properly.
    The alarm continued to beep noisily but she left it, knowing that if she turned it off too early—like before she got out of bed—that she'd fall back to sleep and be late for duty.
    As she lay in the dark her thoughts drifted to last night and a certain vampire. How stupid could she be? Covering her face with her hands, she shook her head.
    Sitting up, finally, she reached across and hit the snooze button on the alarm. The sudden silence was deafening. Reaching a little further, she found the switch for her bedside lamp and blinked against the glare until her eyes had adjusted before climbing out of bed and making her way into her bathroom.
    Ten minutes later, she was showered and dressed in her uniform. Grabbing her sports bag, she spent the next couple of minutes arming herself and then left the room.
    She already knew some of the details surrounding her mission today. To search an apartment building where a low level demon was thought to be hiding out. It sounded easy and was the reason she was going solo on this one.
    Heading out of her room, she went down to the second floor and stared at a perfectly made-up Adrianna, who was sat behind her desk typing away. It was almost like she never slept.
    The other woman glanced up and smiled before picking up a piece of paper and handing it to Charlotte and explaining, “Your mission briefing. The Director's too busy to see you right now.”
    Brain picking out the important bits, she asked, “He's talking to Lucien?”
    Adrianna's eyes widened for a second, like she'd just remembered she wasn’t supposed to mention it in front of her, and then nodded sharply once.
    Taking the hint, she glanced down at the sheet of paper in her hands. It contained an address, description and what little information they had that clearly stated that the demon was so low level in his abilities that she