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“But?” Kylie asked.
“But she cares more about Chase,” Miranda said, putting words in Della’s mouth.
“No.” Della felt her heart thump to the tune of a lie. “I would be just as worried about Steve if he was in danger.”
“Would you?” Kylie asked.
“Yeah,” she said, but that came with a tremble of her heart as well. “And if I wasn’t, it would be because of the bond. So that wouldn’t count.
“Because … because … It wasn’t my choice to care.” But she heard Chase’s words: You still have a choice.
Did she?
“Everything in my life feels like I don’t have a choice. Everything is changing and I don’t get a say in it. It’s my friggin’ life, and all I am is a spectator.”
“I’d have to disagree with that,” Kylie said. “I’ve never met anyone who fights as much as you do against anything.”
“Yeah, but just because I fight doesn’t change anything. I was turned into a vampire and no amount of fighting changed that.”
“It didn’t change it, but you’re here at Shadow Falls because you had the nerve to call Holiday,” Kylie said. “We can’t always change what happens, but we always have control over how we deal with those things.”
“You’re channeling Holiday again and spouting all that psychoanalytical crap,” Della accused.
“Sorry,” Kylie said, smiling. “Sometimes her wisdom just takes me over.”
“Nobody likes a wiseass,” Della smarted back, only half serious.
“Did you kiss him?” Miranda asked.
“Duh, you saw it,” Della said.
“Not Chase, Steve. Did you kiss Steve?”
“No,” Della said. “We just talked.”
“Did you want to kiss him?” Miranda asked.
Della squeezed the can. “I … I don’t know. I didn’t think about it.”
“But you thought about it with Chase, right?”
“No,” Della snapped. “I didn’t think about it. It just happened.”
“Hmm,” said Miranda.
“Don’t ‘hmm’ me,” Della said. “Things between Steve and me are different now.”
“Different how?” Miranda asked.
Della tried to define it and finally said, “He’s … He feels safer.”
“Safe is good,” Kylie said.
“Is it?” Della wasn’t sure. She hadn’t had a lot of time to think about it since she’d been dealing with the cat/dog disaster right after he’d left.
Speaking of “safe” had her checking the time. Was it time to let Kylie call Burnett?
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