Flirting is the last thing I need right now!
I cover my face with my hands and sigh. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to make this even weirder than it already is. This can’t be awesome for you. Having some grungy, bruised up woman hitting on you.”
“You look beautiful,” he says. Sincerity radiates from every feature of his soft, warm face. But then it hardens a little at the edges. “Do you mind if I ask what happened?”
“I was attacked,” I say. I almost can’t believe it. “I managed to mace the vampire who…who did this, and if I hadn’t I’d probably be dead. But really it’s that paramedic that saved my life. I should probably thank him.”
His eyes sparkle with wonder and confusion. “So you’re the one.”
“The one what?”
“The paramedic is my brother,” he says. “He told me what happened.”
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