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hair.
“See.”
    “ Don’t let that go to your
head.” I rose from the table, went to the pantry door, and opened
it. I was met with two floor to ceiling shelves full of food and
another floor to ceiling shelf that housed ammo. I grabbed a box of
45 rounds from the stack and brought it back to the table where I
began filling one of my empty clips.
    Drew scooted his chair back and stood.
“I guess if you’re all right with it, then Christina should come,
just in case.”
    I finished loading the clip and slid
it up into my un-holstered gun. “Why wouldn’t I be all right with
it?” This time both Drew and Christina rolled their eyes. It was
common knowledge with everyone we knew that Christina and I hadn’t
always gotten along. She and Drew were lifelong friends who had
occasionally dated … and other things. She and I still had a rocky
relationship, but at least we didn’t hate each other. It was also
easier to make these decisions about her being around Drew because
I knew that she was dating my brother, Zander, and the two of them
were a pretty hot item. Well … as hot as an item could really be in
the middle of an apocalypse.
    I shrugged. “What? I’m totally okay
with all that now.”
    Christina shook her head. “I’m going
out to the truck. See ya, Gavin,” she called out.
    “ Later,” his tired voice
said over the intercom.
    After we heard the door unlatch and
then close again, Drew reached out and pulled me close to him. “We
are going to take care of this. I’m not going to let anything
happen to you. All right?”
    I laid my head on his chest and
wrapped my arms around him. He knew I was worried about what
Anthony had told us, but I wasn’t ready to be worried about myself
yet. Not yet … there were more important things to worry about,
like saving the world. “I know,” I whispered.
    He reached up and lifted my chin a
little bit so that I would look at him. I always enjoyed gazing
into his eyes because they told so much about him that he never
voiced. At that second, when I looked deep into the green of his
eyes, I saw that he was scared. To make it even more interesting, I
knew it was me he was scared of losing.
    My fingers found their way up and into
his hair. “I am going to be just fine. We have other things to take
care of before we can worry about me.”
    He shook his head. “That is not even
an option. We will not sacrifice you.” His voice had lowered to a
whisper because Gavin was listening on the intercom.
    “ That really isn’t up to
you,” I whispered back, and pulled him down for a kiss. Aware that
Gavin was most likely watching us, I had totally intended for it to
be a gentle peck of a kiss. However, Drew was also aware of Gavin’s
presence and completely went the other way. He crushed his lips
against mine and moved forward; I was forced to back up until I
felt the wall press against me.
    I wanted to tell him he was mean for
intentionally flaunting our relationship in front of Gavin. At the
same instant, heat flared within me, sizzling through my veins. I
wished desperately that we weren’t being watched. I wanted to wrap
my legs around him and let him carry me to bed so we could make out
for a while before sleep finally claimed us. “I wish you were
staying,” I mumbled against his lips.
    Reluctantly, he tore his lips away
from mine. “Next time,” he whispered. His breathing was heavy and
his voice was husky; this kind of behavior was dangerous for us. I
knew how hard it was for him to wait for me, but I didn’t really
want him to wait. I was totally all right with sex, even though I’d
never had it before. Drew, on the other hand, felt that we must
wait until I turned eighteen.
    I didn’t really think it was that big
of a deal one way or the other.
    Standing there—wrapped up in his arms,
knowing he wanted me so badly—I realized something. If what Anthony
said about the killing the bloodlines was true, I could possibly
die a virgin. Yeah … that was so not