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top of the repair costs I was going to have a hefty hospital bill. I didn’t have insurance, so everything from the ambulance ride to the CAT scan was coming out of my own pocket. I’d make it work.
    “I’ll take care of your RV. Don’t worry about it. I know the owner of the shop in town.”
    “It’s okay, Vex, honestly. I don’t want to owe you anything.”
    He rubbed his eyes. “You won’t owe me a thing, Acacia.”
    “Thanks for the charity offer, but I’ll pay for it myself. Dr. Maston will be back soon, so you should probably go. I don’t want her to stick her malnourished hellhounds on you.”
    “And then what are you going to do? Walk thirty miles to your broken down RV? What happens if whoever did this to you is there? What happens if you hurt yourself? I’m not leaving unless you come with me. Stay with me tonight. In the morning we’ll go to your RV together and check it out. I’ll have Parker meet us there so he can assess the damages.”
    “When did you decide you get to dictate my life? A week ago you tried running me out of town and now you’re telling me what to do? It doesn’t work like that, Vex.”
    “A lot can happen in a week. I don’t want you to go. I like you. I like being around you. And I still owe you another interview, so you can’t skip town. Doesn’t that go against the journalist creed or something?” He smiled and reminded me why I had dreams of him rescuing me from a Dementor with his badass bear Patronus.
    I snorted, “I’m not a journalist. I can’t type a coherent blog post, let alone a believable article. I was a cosmetologist before I – just before. License needs renewed and the job market isn’t all that hot right now. Thanks for thinking I’m smart, though. I appreciate it.”
    “Hairdressers are smart. You have to go to school for that shit.”
    “Tell that to my mom.”
    “Also I have never met anyone who has as many fun facts about ghosts, monsters, fictional creations, things that go bump in the night, and overall creepy things.”
    I turned a little to hide the creeping grin on my face. “Are you trying to charm me into saying yes to your demands, Vex?”
    “Is it working? Because I’ll get you to come home with me one way or another.”
    I wanted to go home with him for an entirely different reason. Moments earlier he confessed to liking me and enjoying my company, but I was entirely convinced he meant it in a platonic way. He hadn’t given me any reason to believe he wasn’t just a friendly guy under the hard exterior of muscle and good looks. But that hug. The way he looked at you… like you were special. The man looked like he could be related to Jason Moma, and I was a pale, tattooed girl with mommy issues and a seedy past that he knew nothing about. While I was sure his feelings towards me were platonic, mine were anything but. I never considered myself a shy person. My fear of rejection kept me from being too forward with guys, but I’d been with enough to be confident with my sexuality. Vex made me unsure about everything. My sexuality. My personality. My sanity.
    “That was very ‘ It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again’ of you, Vex.”
    His laughter was like the sound of rainfall in the spring. And when he asked me again if I would willingly let him take care of me for the night all I could do was nod my head and say yes.

Chapter Six
    Vex
     
    Taking Acacia to my cabin was completely against the rules. I would know. As an Enforcer I had to memorize every single line in the obnoxiously large clan rulebook. Bringing a human onto the reserve without Alpha permission was a punishable offense.
    That didn’t stop me from carrying her out of the bandage station of a hospital in the Valley bridal style and putting her in the front of my Tahoe. She had changed out of the hospital gown and back into her pajamas. They were smeared with a concerning amount of blood. The bright yellow Pac-Man pants were splattered