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shoulder—”
    Scout slid off the counter and walked over until she stood in front of Joshua’s knees. Her eyes, which were a piercing blue so light they almost appeared as colorless as her skin and hair, met his with a challenge.
    “Hit me,” she said.
    “What?”
    “Take your left hand, squeeze it into a fist, and then punch me as hard as you can in the face.”
    Joshua thought Liam would step in, but the Alpha Male seemed unfazed by his bride-to-be’s request.
    “I’m not going to hit you.”
    “Why not?”
    “Because I’m an Immortal.”
    “So?”
    “So I don’t care if you can Change and fix the damage, I’m not going to break half the bones in your face.”
    The same corner of Scout’s mouth jerked upwards again. “Are you saying you’re so freakishly strong you could shatter my face with one punch? With one punch from your left hand?”
    “Scout—”
    “And tell me, old man, how long before you can aim and fire a gun?”
    Joshua could feel the muscle near his left eye twitching. “You know I don’t like guns any more than you do.”
    “More or less than you like the idea of someone hurting Angel?”
    Joshua glared at her for a full two minutes, but Scout just stood there with that stupid smirk on her face. “Fine,” he finally said, “but you will all keep your phones on you always.” He turned to Jase. “And you will keep the volume turned on. If I get so much as a gas pain that doesn’t feel quite right, I’m calling in backup.”
    “And we’ll be there before you can get your Tums chewed up and swallowed,” Scout said.

Chapter 4
     
    “Where are you going?”
    Ada jumped a good three inches in the air and let out a very unbecoming squeak.
    “What are you doing here?” she gasped out over the pounding of her heart. “Were you just waiting outside my door to try to scare me to death?”
    Hanging out on front porches in hopes of giving someone a heart attack wasn’t normally Marsden’s idea of a good time, but he’d been acting weird since she’d left him in the hotel room one of her friends at Lake’s Edge had snuck them into the day before. Like the dutiful boyfriend he was, he’d shown up at the hospital last night and said all the comforting and concerned words her parents expected him to say, but Ada couldn’t shake the feeling he wasn’t really speaking to her, but instead reciting words from a script. Instead of sitting next to her bed and holding her hand while she endured an extra treatment for the day, he’d stood against the wall, paying more attention to the Big Bang Theory rerun silently playing on the television.
    “I was coming to see you,” he said as though she was one of the little old ladies from church they went to visit every Sunday afternoon at the nursing home. “I thought we could… you know…” His gaze dropped to her very modest breasts, which were successfully hidden by a burgundy Serenity Shores polo. “Talk.”
    Talk? Talking wasn’t really what she and Marsden did. They went out with friends or hung out and watched TV together. They made out. Sometimes, they texted each other, but that was about it. The thought of spending hours struggling to come up with conversation topics was completely unappealing.
    “My parents are in Nashville for the rest of the day,” he said. “They won’t be back until midnight or so. You can come over. It’ll be nice and quiet. Private.”
    Oh.
    Wait.
    That kind of talking. The kind where you didn’t wear clothes.
    In her head, Ada was back in the motel room. The mauve and teal bedspread. The Monet prints hanging on the wall.
    The disappointment.
    “I’m on my way to work,” Ada said, suddenly unable to meet his gaze. “Maybe tomorrow we could… I don’t know… find a place…” Although the absolute last thing she wanted to do was find a place. She didn’t realize how much she didn’t want to until she said it. Surely this wasn’t the normal reaction to losing your virginity.
    Ada tried to