“Maybe we'll have vampire prom."He shot me an appalled look. "What is this, Twilight?”

“It appeared that spending my formative years getting smacked around by my dad may have earned me the privileged of getting smacked around by a bunch of vampires.”

“I was once a man. As not all men are good, not all vampires are evil.”

“His eyes were slitted and intense, like he might need to have sex at any moment.”

“He had dirty-blond good looks to match a dirty-good smile. Yes, dirty. There was just enough twinkle in his smiling brown eyes to suggest there might be all manner of naughty-guy impulses rattling around that cute body of his.”

“I wouldn't let him distract me. "Your accent gets thicker when you're being...improper.""Improper, is it?""Inappropriate.""Indelicate?" He waggled his brows just before her rounded a corner, disappearing into shadows.”

“I won't have any paste-related crimes laid on my head.”