The countdown continues (May 6 is getting very close). So have another Fire Kin snippet.
“Veil’s eyes, Father is right. You are impossible.”
“Yes, but you like me anyway.” He stepped closer. Too close. Too near in the falling dark and the soft air, with the first hints of starlight above us. This night was the stuff of lovers’ trysts. Nothing that I wanted any part of with Ash. Even if his nearness made the hairs on my arms lift and set butterflies floating idly through my stomach.
“Don’t flatter yourself.”
“Deny it,” he challenged.