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his eyes widened in
surprise, and his hand reached up to rub his jaw while he worked
his mouth out for a second.
    “What was that for?” He looked completely
confused, as if I had suddenly sprouted two heads or something.
    “That was for leaving me and going off on
your own, you stupid knucklehead!” I yelled at him, my eyes
flashing in anger.
    “Portia, I was trying to protect …,” he
started to explain, but I didn’t let him finish.
    “Don’t you DARE try to feed me that ‘protect
you’ line of bull again!” I shouted at him. “I have had it with
you, Vance! I think I’ve proven, on several occasions, I’m not the
one who’s been needing protection!”
    He watched me, his eyes growing wide in
amazement over my little emotional display.
    “Wow! You’re really angry!” he said, and it
took me a second to realize that he had said it into my mind.
    “Get out of my head!” I continued, shouting
back to him out loud. “You’ve lost the right to be there! You cut
me off without any warning whenever you feel like it, only to step
right back in whenever you want!”
    I turned away from him and started walking in
a huff toward Brad and Shelly, who were both looking very
uncomfortable at the moment.
    Vance grabbed me before I could take two
steps away from him and swung me back around to face him. He pulled
me into his embrace with one arm while grabbing my hair in his
other hand, tilting my head back as he lowered his face and started
kissing me.
    “I love you,” he said, his words penetrating
my mind, as his lips ravaged mine, obviously not caring one bit
that I had just told him to get out of my head.
    I tried staying stiff in his arms, but I was
having trouble resisting him, I had missed him so badly.
    “I’m sorry. I wasn’t trying to hurt you.
Really,” he spoke into my head, and I felt his tongue trace lightly
over my closed lips. “I just wanted to keep you from any
danger.”
    I stood still only for a moment before I was
unable to fight him any longer. I felt my arms go up to wrap around
his neck then and I really kissed him back.
    We held each other tightly, our reunion
becoming heated very quickly. I kissed him like I hadn’t seen him
in years instead of just days. I ran my hands through his hair,
over his face and down his neck, forgetting completely about Shelly
and Brad standing in the doorway behind us.
    His mouth moved away from mine then, and he
began kissing across my cheek. I found that I instinctively leaned
my head over to the side to give him better access, and his lips
traveled down my neck. His tongue snaked out to lick seductively
over the spot where he had bitten into me before.
    I flinched involuntarily.
    Suddenly he released me, pushing me away from
him and taking several steps backward.
    We just stood there staring at each other,
our breathing ragged from our encounter, and I could feel the
sparks flying between us.
    “I need you to leave now, Portia,” he said,
his teeth clenched as he spoke. “You aren’t safe here.”
    “Why? I’m not afraid of your ….”
    “Because of this,” he said, cutting me off
and stepping closer to me, but making sure not to touch me.
    I felt a streak of terror pass through me as
I watched his eyes flash a dim shade of red, not wanting to believe
what I was seeing.
    “No. I’m not leaving,” I said flatly,
standing my ground against him.
    “Don’t you get it?” he replied in
frustration, his voice getting louder. “I still taste you! I still
want you! I could kill you right now!”
    He reached out to grab me to him again but
was suddenly stopped by some sort of magical force field which had
popped up between us.
    “That is what I’m here for,” Brad said, and I
noticed his hand was between us, creating the barrier which had
stopped Vance.
    “What the heck?” Vance said, stepping back
from Brad, looking at him incredulously.
    “Let’s you and me take a little walk,” Brad
said, nodding his head in the opposite