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stifled my growl because I knew she did it on purpose to distract me.
    My eyes took a moment to trace her bare skin and I mentally cursed, my hands itching to caress her again.
    I shook myself to find her standing in front of me with her hands perched on his hips.
    “Why do you care about Zeke after what he did to us?” I hissed.
    Her jaw flexed.  “Because I just do.  And he left us alone for months.  We haven’t seen or heard one word from him.  He’s really trying to give us our space.”
    I didn’t buy that crap for one second.  He was probably plotting his next move on Hartley. 
    She tossed her hands up in exasperation and edged around the other side of the bed away from me.  “I think he’s starting to learn his lesson.  You didn’t see him.”
    I spun around and shot her an incredulous expression.  “You can’t be that gullible Hartley.”
    “Oh what does it matter anyways?  It’s not like I’m ever leaving you, especially not for him.”
    A rumble I couldn’t help echoed from my chest.  “He doesn’t think so.”
    Her hazel eyes penetrated me, burning me from the inside out.  If we were in the Underworld they’d be flaming redder than mine.  “Do you think so?”  She kneeled on the bed.  “Do you still think one day I’ll run off with Zeke?”
    “No.”  I didn’t think she’d completely leave me.  We were soul mates.  Hell, I had part of her soul in the Underworld.  But a deep, secret part of me always feared she’d fall in love with him too at some point.
    With a growl of her own she threw a pillow at me.  “How many times do I have to tell you that’s never happening?”
    I expected her to storm out.  Instead something wild and dark glinted in her eyes.  “Maybe I just need to show you you’re the only one I’ll ever want.” 
    My blood boiled for another reason now.
    She crooked her finger at me.  “Hayden, baby, come here.”
    Oh shit. 
    Before I realized it I was crawling toward her, pulling her down on the bed.  Her roses and pine scent flooded my nose while her warm skin met mine.  The devious smile curling her lips as she twined her fingers through my hair let me know that she had once again sent my resolve crumbling to a never ending abyss. 
    She won the damn argument.
    As her lips collided with mine and I tasted her sweetness, I figured it wasn’t so bad being on the losing end of an argument with Hartley.  At least not for me.
     
    Hartley
    My eyes followed the ghost down the school hall as it trailed Meredith Knowles.   The male with white tuffs of hair and dark eyes matching hers was probably her grandfather. He floated around her sometimes, watching. 
    A knot formed in my chest from the deep sadness on his face.  I wished there was something I could do to help him.  But since he wasn’t bound for the Underworld yet and didn’t even seem to notice me there was nothing I or Hayden could do.
    I would never get over seeing and hearing ghosts.  I used to plead that they would never interact with me.  Hello, I have seen scary ghost movies.  But now—being so used to souls in the Underworld, it was a little heartbreaking watching them wander around, lonely.
    Of course these weren’t the amped up, vengeful ones that attacked my friends and me thanks to Hecate’s spell.  Those I wouldn’t want hanging around, talking to me.
    I turned back to my locker, twirling the combination.  The hall was crowded and while I was aware of my friends around me, their conversations were static in my ears.  I was having one of my moments , feeling disconnected from life. 
    “Did you hear what I said?”  Laurie Mason was staring at me, her green eyes shining and face expectant. 
    “Sorry.  What?”
    She waved a dismissive hand in the air, unbothered by my inattentiveness.  “I was thinking about a new look.  What do you think about a few pink highlights?”  Her soft face scrunched.  “Not pink pink.  More like a reddish pink.”
    Laurie