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careful.  I huff, because I got no time for interruptions.
 I need to sniff Avery out from whatever hole in
the wall he fell into.  Too bad the weather is changing, and with the sun
having set, and a light rain coming our way, the air is so damp, I’m having a
hard time picking it up.

 
    I round the corner, hoping I chose the right direction,
and find Avery hiding in the alleyway.  By the way he’s standing, his
nostrils flared, and his hands clenched in fists, he looks about as angry as I
do, but I have no clue why - he’s the one who ditched me, “Hey Avery, what the Hell happened?”

 
    He doesn’t respond right away, in fact he sort of twitches
upon realizing it’s my voice who’s so irate.  Just from the way he shoots
his glare at me, I can tell he’s defensive, and I’m honestly so confused, that
I don’t exactly know how to respond.  

 
    “What happened was
-,” he looks away from me, as if it’s too much to see my face at the
moment, “I wasn’t going to stick around
and watch you leave with someone else.”

 
    Wait, what?   “What
are you talking about?  I wasn’t - , ” and
then I remember the bar jerk, and realize what it must have looked like from
his point of view.  Seeing some girl put her arm around Avery would have
made me explode, and I can understand why he felt the need to leave.
 Approaching a little more gently now, I carefully step forward, even
though he practically flinches when he sees I’m still aiming to get close to
him , “Avery listen - I don’t even know
that jerk, he just felt the need to touch me, and I put him in his place.
 I growled at him, and that’s that.  I didn’t even talk to the guy.”
His shoulders relax a little, and he looks - confused.  He must not
understand the hold he’s already got on me, if he honestly thinks it would be
that easy for me to walk away from a date, just because some stranger put the
moves on me in a bar, “You know why I
didn’t go off with that guy?”
He merely shakes his head, still none the wiser it seems, and I realize that I
just have to be blunt with this guy.  I step forward, merely inches away
from him, and feel the heat radiating between us.  It’s so obvious, I
wonder if our clothes are steaming under the light drizzle, “Because I was on a date with you.
 Right where I wanted to be.”

 
    I make a move, placing my empty hand on his chest, and I
swear his heartbeat is so fast, I can’t even keep up
with the count.  I had been underestimating the kind of effect I was
having on him.  Feeling a little more confident, I inch forward, leaning
in for a kiss, because I’m done imagining what his lips would feel like against
mine.  

I close my eyes, and part my lips ever so slightly . . .

 
    “Wait.”

Chapter. 7
– Avery

 
    I want to.   Dammit , I want
to so bad, but I can’t allow this to go any further without saying the truth.
  There’s rules about sharing what you are with
humans, about us creatures, but I also can’t allow this to continue, and break
both our hearts.  Her hand on my chest, feels like it’s radiating heat
from the center of my being, and straight down to my dick.  I can’t
imagine what it’ll feel like to actually have her touch me anywhere else, and
my cheeks feel hot, even in the cold winter air.  When she leans into me,
actually wanting to kiss me, I want to give in, I really, really do.  But
just as her lips are about to reach mine, I tense up, afraid of what she’ll do
once she finds out I’m a halfbreed .  If she runs
in the opposite direction now, maybe my heart wouldn’t completely break in
half.  With a. practically agitated, grunt at myself, I stop her in her
tracks, “Wait.”

 
    Her eyes flutter open, and I almost hate myself because
she looks like she had wanted to get lost in that kiss, in me.  But I
can’t allow myself to get lost in her, until I know that she knows what I am, “Riley - I need to tell you something.”