Anna rolled over and looked at Cassidy who slept soundly on top of the sheets. Her mind wandered to his tongue on her clit and she felt herself growing turned on, growing wetter as she recalled how it felt to have him inside of her. She moved swiftly, straddling his hips. She leaned over a kissed him awake.
"Oh luv, yeh want another go, yea?" he said.
Anna rocked her hips and felt him grow hard beneath her. "Mmhmm."
"Alright, but after I have to help out Jesse," he pretended to be reluctant as he flipped them over so that he was on top. "I make you cum, you play chauffer."
"Deal," Anna growled and begged for Cassidy to enter her. She cried out when he did and begged for him to fuck harder. Cassidy obliged, his mind fuzzy with thoughts of her as she ran her nails down his arms and tightened her legs' grip on his waist. She screamed his name and he couldn't stop himself from coming. As he pressed into her, as far as he could, and as Anna felt his cum inside her, she herself, came, hips arching off the bed.
Cassidy pressed his forehead against Anna's. "Jaysis," he breathed. "I love ye."
Anna hadn't been expecting it. The words caught her off guard and she struggled to form a response of her own.
Cassidy's face fell and he crawled off of her and wiggled into his pants. "Yeh don't love me. Right. Forget it. Right stupid thing t' say."
"Wait. Proinsias, just wait!" she grabbed on to his arm to keep him from leaving the room. "You can't leave you live here."
"Right," he pulled himself free. "You leave."
"No, I'm not leaving because I do love you and you still need a ride," she said.
"Don't say tha'. Don't say tha; just t' make me happy. I saw th' way yeh tensed up," he shook his head, but began to bundle up anyway.
"You just caught me off guard. I already knew you loved me. I didn't think you'd actually say it, though," Anna tried to explain as she dressed. "Where are we going?" she asked when Cassidy didn't answer.
"Need to pick sometin' up from th' hardware store," he grumbled. The last thing he wanted to do was get in the car with Anna. Everything was going great, but then he had to be honest. He's never completely honest. In a hundred years, the one thing he learned was that dishonesty was the best policy.
"Look," Anna said as they slid into the Mustang. "I love you and you don't have to believe me, but don't be a grumpy child and make this awkward."
"Yes, mum," Cassidy sighed.
He hadn't meant it to be funny, but Anna laughed. She had never been called mom, by anyone, even as a joke. She couldn't help it. It sounded so strange, especially coming from Cassidy, that she couldn't stop laughing. Soon he was smiling to, laughing at her laugh.
"Alright, alright," she tried to calm herself down. "Hardware store, yeah?" She turned the car on and put it in first.
"Yea," Cassidy smiled at her.
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Cassidy finally had everything he needed to fix the church air conditioning. He stared out the window as Texas flew past. "Wait, wait. Luv, stop here."
Anna swerved into the parking lot of the Sundowner Motel. "The fuck is here?"
"The guys who are after Jesse. Been stringin' 'em along. Gotta keep it up, yea? Be right back." He slid out of the car.
"Proinsias!" she called after him, but he ignored her.
Anna remained in the car, keeping it running. She drummed her fingers on the steering wheel and waited. And waited. Finally her nerves grew so paramount she exited the car, but she had to talk herself into going inside. She wasn't used to being scared. She was Abrianna, daughter of Cain. She always got what she wanted and no one could hurt her. Then two dickless angels come to town and suddenly she has to tiptoe around. Fuck that. Before she took three steps, Jesse and Cassidy exited the motel. Behind them were two men in suits and everyone was covered in blood.
"We can't let you do this," one of the suits grabbed Jesse's arm.
"Stay away from me," he growled and reluctantly they obeyed.
Cassidy guided Anna back to her car while Jesse got into his truck. "Alright, let's go."
"The fuck was that?" Anna asked as she sped back to the church. "I thought I said leave angels alone."
"Yea, yeh did," he admitted. "Sorry," he added when she glared at him.
Anna was fuming that he so carelessly endangered himself that she could barely talk to him. Still, she didn't pull away when he reached out and grabbed her hand. She wanted to say something romantic about when they first met, but she couldn't find the words. She had never been sappy or sentimental so they drove in silence until they reached All Saints Congregational.
"Are yeh coming in?" he asked her.
Anna shook her head. "Not right now."
Cassidy watched Anna drive away not sure where they were on the fight pendulum. Then he followed Jesse inside to take off their blood soaked clothes. They stood in their briefs in the kitchen, watching the washer spin. Cassidy got a whiff of himself and excused himself to take a shower.
"Only cold til the washer's done," Jesse told him. "Beer while we wait?"
"At ten a.m. in the morning?" Cassidy grinned and accepted. "Yeh know, we could talk to Anna bout the angels."
"What does she know?" Jesse scoffed.
Cassidy shrugged. "Well apparently she sold her soul to Satan so she knows a ting or two about angels and demons."
"I ain't gonna get help from a demon," he said.
"Ach, no. She's a good lass," Cassidy backpedaled. "She's you're friend, right?"
"Right, but I don't want Satan involved." Jesse wasn't sure if they were speaking metaphorically. He was still trying to get passed Genesis and angels.
"That's not what I meant," Cassidy sighed. "I just meant she 'as experience with angels."
Jesse shook his head. "Keep her out of this."
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Meanwhile, Anna slurped her milkshake at the Flavour Station, daring anyone to tell her to stop. There was a family in the booth behind her who she knew was growing annoyed, but they were too scared to say anything. Even Cain looked like he might burst a blood vessel. She didn't stop until there wasn't a lick of ice cream left in the glass.
"Thought you might want to know, there are angels in town," she spoke for the first time during their meal.
Cain grimaced. "Do you know why?"
Anna shrugged. "Something to do with Jesse."
"The preacher?" he asked.
"Do you know another Jesse?" she sighed.
"Right. Well I ain't leaving," he said.
Anna shrugged again.
"What about that goofy-looking guy you've been hanging around?" Cain asked.
"Vampire."
Cain nodded, appreciating the clarification, and resumed their silence.
It was the most that had spoken since she arrived which was how they both liked it. Anna didn't even say goodbye as she left money on the table to pay for her food.
