14 “I hear you’re staying with us,” Bram says as he walks into my room. He doesn’t even knock. I try to bring myself to care, but I really don’t. So long as he’s still talking to me, we’re all good. “If you’ll have me,” I reply. My hand glances over my holsters and it takes me a moment to realise I don’t have to wear them. There’s no danger to me here. “I’ll have you any time.” “It’s a bit disappointing really,” I muse. “What is?” He frowns, the expression making him appear much more boyish than usual. “I planned to have a lot of hate s*x with you. But that doesn’t really seem likely now.” I’m a little disappointed, there would have been a lot of passion in those moments. Bram laughs. “You want me to go back to hating you?” “You never hated me in the first place. You hated the ide

