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snow.
It’s too dangerous.”
    I heard him sigh a little. “All right, I get
that.”
    I knew what he was thinking. I was a fast
healer. My bullet wound had healed completely in just a few short
days, so any injury I might sustain doing this should be no
problem. I’d heal up fast if I broke a bone or two, but I knew he
would never say that to me. He cared about my safety, but that
didn’t mean he wasn’t hard core when it came to the training part
of him.
    “Drew?”
    “Hmmm?”
    “I think that we should take out the Talon
Building.”
    “We’ve talked about that already, Chloe. It
can’t be done.”
    “Yes, it can!” I insisted. “If we take that
place out, we take out half the vampire resources for the city. We
have to.”
    “But the board…”
    I cut him off. “I don’t give a crap what the
board has to say about it.”
    “I know, but how would that one be
explained? We can’t just take out a building in the middle of the
city. Innocent people could get hurt, even killed.”
    “If we bomb it, it could be passed off as
some kind of attack. Bombings happen all the time. For all anyone
knows, it could be some disgruntled employee.”
    He appeared to contemplate my idea, finally,
but I still didn’t have him.
    “And the possibility of innocent people
getting hurt is slim if we do it at like two or three in the
morning. Not many who aren’t vampires are out at that time of
night.”
    “True.” He slid off the rock. “Do you want
to head home?”
    “Yes! I’m freezing.” All that sweat and
rolling in the snow made my clothes sopping wet, so the cold was
even worse than it would have normally been. I followed his lead
and slid off the rock, too.
    “Why didn’t you tell me you were cold?” He
grabbed both my hands and pulled me forward so that he could wrap
his arms around me.
    “Because I didn’t want to look like a
pansy,” I mumbled into his chest.
    “I don’t think you’re a pansy at all.” He
pulled back and grinned.
    “Stop lying.” I tried to pull away, but he
tightened his grip around me. “Let me go!” I laughed, trying to
wiggle out of his embrace.
    He laughed, too. “No way.”
    I struggled a bit more, but decided to
change my tactic. I fell still and then stared up into his awesome
green eyes. Our gazes locked, and he leaned down, as I was rising
onto my tip toes. When our lips met, I felt my whole body warm all
the way down to my toes. It was like that every time we kissed. It
was perfect.
    But as soon as I felt his grip loosen, I
pushed him back and ran. “Sucker!” I called out over my shoulder as
I bounded through the bushes and back onto the trail. I didn’t stop
to see if he was behind me. I knew he was because I could hear his
footsteps crunching over the snow when he caught up with me.
    I sped over the trails at a dangerously fast
pace, but then slowed when I remembered Drew did not have super
healing powers like I did. If he broke a bone, or worse, he would
not be fine in the next couple of days.
    “Nice try,” he said when he caught up with
me.
    I batted my eyelashes at him dramatically.
“I don’t know what you mean.”
    “Yeah right.” He approached me and pulled me
forward by the sleeves of my sweat shirt. “Now give me my kiss so
we can get moving.”
    I wanted to make some smarty-pants remark to
taunt him some more, but I couldn’t. He took my chin, tilted my
head up so I could look into his eyes, and brought his lips to
mine.
    Kissing Drew was one of those things that I
could do all day long. It was like everything disappeared. All the
bad stuff, the war with vampires, all the training, all the loss,
it was gone for those brief moments.
    It was the strangest thing. My body reacted
to Drew’s touch and kiss like he was fanning the fire that burned
inside me. I still had to focus my energy when the heat got too
intense. The last thing I wanted to do was set him on fire.
    “Let’s get back,” I whispered against his
cheek.
    He pulled out of my