Oh, shit. Is it too much? The last thing I want is for him to snap at the first guy that looks my way. I’m not sure how
dangerous that thing inside of him is or how much control over it he has. Just as I draw up the courage to ask him if he’s okay, the darkness bleeds away to show his pretty eyes.
“You kill me, Angel,” he says softly. “You’re so devastatingly lovely
“That’s better than the first line you ever used to hit on me,”
“That was stupid, wasn’t it?” he laughs.
“Borderline creepy.”
“It worked if I’m not mistaken,”
“There’s physical proof,” I agree. And just like that, the tension minimizes but doesn’t completely fade.
“You’re practically glowing,” he takes my hand. “I can’t wait for you to take this off,” I press my lips together. The coat,” he shakes his head immediately regretting those words. “So that I can see the rest of the dress,”
“Almost put your foot in your mouth,” I laugh. “We should go before you say something we’ll both regret,”
“You’re right,” he tries to hide his embarrassment but even the tips of his ears are bright red.
I glance black when I hear movement to see Tessa and their father laughing silently in the hallway that leads into the kitchen. Tessa puts her index finger to her lips and pulls her dad away just as Knightly turns back to look at me. I smile back at him and hurry to get closer. His family is so annoyingly cute.
I didn’t expect there to be a crazy cool car straight out of a Hot Wheels package waiting for us up front. The metallic cobalt blue paint glistens against the yardlights. I have no idea what this thing is but I recognize the Ferrari logo.
Knightly opens the doors and helps me into the seat before shutting the door. When he climbs in, I can’t help but stare at the crazy–shaped steering wheel. He places a little squared box between and swipes his finger across the center of the steering wheel before the engine purrs to life.
I’ve never been inside a car like this. The seats look like the ones in race cars on TV. It sounds like a purring lion and the inside looks like a mini spaceship. I thought my car was ridiculous when Cevin presented it to me. My first thought was, what the fuck is this? He said it was the best family car to own for someone in my position, I thought it was cool simply because it’s a Lamborghini.
The fact that he thought that someone in my position was worthy of a freakin Lambo was the greatest hype up until a few minutes ago when my daughter gasped and called me a princess and then her father told me I was so pretty it killed him. It smells like him in here. His preferred fragrance infused with leather is out of this world. It’s wild and very masculine. I imagine this is what the promise of danger smells like.
I want one of us to say something. Anything just to defuse the roller coaster of tension between us. It’s always baffled me that my attraction to men was always very low. Even with the two guys I dated before I met Knightly.
Rob was kind of a glitch in my Matrix. Something that was completely out of reach, but I still stretched myself thin for him. I realized that I liked him simply because everyone kept telling me I couldn’t have him. When it was over, I was glad to be rid of him. Glad to be getting off the reservation and out into the world.
Then there was Joseph who liked to be called Jose instead of Joe. He never once told me he had a problem with me calling him that until we had been dating for five months and he exploded with rage about me working as a mermaid. He said it wasn’t a real job and that it was stupid that I was too tired to hang out with him after my shows and full days of school.
into the The only thing that came out of that relationship was my love for Toxic Rose Thoms. An obsession that led me to everything that happened after that. Even this very moment. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be a werewolf bumping
person
who was hand–crafted to be my soulmate.
As a human, I can’t appreciate it fully I mean from what I know, it’s a pretty big deal for them and I so happened to somehow find myself as one of those people. Is it romantic? I don’t know It’s scary and a little invasive. What entity in the universe said, hey I made this thing for you. You two have to stick together now or die. That’s fucking wild.
Knightly and I are two very different people. Aside from the obvious, you know me not being a werewolf. He’s the guy up front with all the adoring fans who, as he’s mentioned would do anything he asks, I’m the weird girl who makes sure he looks his best for the people practically kissin‘ Successfully unlocked!
There are hundreds of cute nerdy chicks like mere is one guy Blake in the world.
We arrive at the restaurant. The valet opens his door first and then comes around to open mine. Knightly holds his hand out for me to take. There aren’t a lot of cameras here but there are some and as soon as they realize it’s him, they start snapping pictures
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1 take his hand and lift myself out of the tiny car. Almost everyone asks who the fuck I am and I almost laugh as he leads me inside. We are completely fucked when get out of here. Security guards rush past us as we make our way up to the host’s podium
The guy’s eyes widen when his eyes land on Knightly. He pays him no mind as he turns to face me
“Coat,” he mouths.
I turn around as he steps toward me. I let it fall off my shoulders as he takes it off. I turn around to see his eyes zero in on my arm. I clear my throat when the guy looks between him and my coat. He handover but he doesn’t take his eyes off
my arm.
This way Mr. Blake,” an older, elegant man appears before us and leads us inside.
Knight takes my right hand and pulls it back a bit to continue looking at my tattoos. He finally shakes it off just before we get to our table. He pulls out my seat for me and goes around for his own. He tells the man something I don’t catch and the man excuses himself.
“You have a full sleeve,” is the first thing that comes out of his mouth. “Why haven’t I noticed that?”
“I cover it up,” I laugh. “It went against my contract when I first signed with Royal Threads. Xo loved that I had the Mermaid thing as an experience and because I’m tall she wanted me to walk for her eventually, but she underestimated my insecurities.”
“I don’t think someone whose job was to be a mermaid in a giant fish tank should have insecurities, Midnight Moonlight,” “You found my old Instagram account,” I laugh.
“If you’re looking to get back to work, I fully support this option,” he holds up his phone. There’s a picture of me in one of my favorite mermaid costumes as his screensaver.
“Oh, god. Smite me now,” I reach for the water chute and take a sip.
was my lock screen until I was twenty–five,”
“Just so you know, your no shirt and suspenders phase
“That was a terrible phase for you to be attached to for so long.” he groans. “My parents didn’t invite me to anything then. They were afraid I’d show up like that,”
“I expect nothing less from Mr. and Mrs. Blake, I laugh.
“What were you doing aside from being the hottest mystical creature in existence?” he smirks
“I was in school learning how to cross–stitch with real fabric and dating this idiot who hated my job,”
“I would have too, honestly. Having men leer at my mermaid girlfriend would have driven my wolf crazy. At the time, I’d just let him take whatever he wanted.”
