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The next 5 or 6 months went by pretty quickly. Jeff and I spent more and more time together. So did Maggie and Randy. They were getting pretty close. I got to have dinner with Jeff and Matt, alone. Matt spent the whole night, sitting in Jeff's dinning room, telling me stories of his and Jeff's childhood, trying his best to embarrass Jeff. The story where Jeff ended up naked in the middle of a cow pasture was the one that finally did the trick. Later that night, while we were laying in bed, I told him about my Grandmother.
She had been the one to raise me and Maggie when our parents had died. They had died just a few months apart from each other. I had been 8 and Maggie was 10. Our Grandma took us in and raised us. She was the one that my parents had named me after. Well, Maggie's parents too. Her name was Sophie Margarette. Maggie hates it when people called her Margarette. She had been the one to give me my first book about vampires. Those first few months with out my parents, I had trouble sleeping. She used to come to my room and tell me stories. Grandma had emigrated to the U.S. from Hungary when she was a teenager. She used to tell me stories and legends of vampires. A normal kid would have been scared of these stories, but me, I was fascinated. After the first one, I was hooked. Yeah, Maggie liked the stories but I was the one that became obsessed. It eventually led to the stuff I studied in college and my job at the paper. Ultimately, leading me to Jeff, my very own vampire. I wonder how Grandma would react if she knew that I was in love with a vampire and possibly going to become one in the future. Knowing her, she would love it.
Jeff started to take extra precautions to make sure that I wasn't in the spotlight him. We rarely went out in public together. He had gotten word that Taker was upping up the search for me. The day he found out, I was at work. I was working on a story about this woman who claimed that her dog could see spirits. (Yeah, that's the kind of stories I wrote.) I was typing up my draft to show Chef. John was sitting at his desk, talking on the phone. He lightly kicked the side of my desk to get my attention. I looked up form my laptop. He held up a piece of paper asking me where I wanted to go for lunch. I mouthed for him to pick. I heard someone a few desk over snicker. I had been hearing the rumors for awhile. People thought that John and I were 'together'. I could see where they might think that. We always went to lunch together. We arrived at work together and we left work together. They had not clue that he was actually my guard.
John's talking was kind of like the radio for me. It blocked out all the outside noise of the room and helped me focus on work. I was almost finished when I noticed that john stopped talking mid-word. I also noticed that the whole room had gone quiet as well.
I looked up and saw why. Jeff had walked through the double doors leading into the room. He was making a beeline for my desk. He looked upset. I could hear whispers around me. 'Isn't that Jeffery Hardy?'; 'Doesn't he own the paper?'; 'I wonder why he's here?'; 'Do you think he's here to fire someone?' I was wondering why he was here myself. He didn't look anywhere else but at me. I was still staring at him when he stopped in front of my desk.
"Ms. Laurell?" Oh yeah, we were keeping our distance publicly, less attention that way. I nodded. He motioned to one of the empty offices at the back of the room. "Can I speak to you privately for a moment?" I stood up and pushed my chair back under my desk.
"Yes sir." I followed him to the office. He held open the door and let me walk in first. The office had one of those pre-fab desk/work area in it. There was nothing in the office but the desk. Jeff shut the door and locked it behind himself. We could see everyone in the room staring at us as Jeff pulled the shades closed. I sat down on the top of the desk, letting my legs swing lightly.
"Jeff, what's wrong?" He walked over to me. "I thought you said…" He abruptly cut off my words by kissing me. He pulled back to stroke my cheek with the back of his fingers. "…we were supposed to keep our distance in public." He smiled slightly.
"I did. I'm sorry, love." He kissed me again. "It's just…I got word today that he's upped the stakes." He wrapped his arms around me, pulling me in to lay my head against his chest. I laid my cheek against his heart. Jeff trailed his fingers through my hair while I rubbed his back, trying to make him feel better.
"Who, baby? Taker?" I asked.
"Yeah. He…he brought that fuckin' werewolf here." I lifted my head to look at his face.
"Werewolf? Like Lon Cheney? Like a person that turns into a wolf at the full moon, werewolf?" He nodded. "Are you serious? They're real too?"
"Yes, they are, love. Unfortunately. This one's particularly nasty. I have a personal beef as well." His eyes went black. I lifted my hand to touch his hair.
"What happened, baby?" I asked him quietly.
"That bastard, Adam…he's the one that killed my mom. He tore her throat out in front of my dad. Then, when she was week…he tore out her heart."
"Oh, Jeff." He laid a hand on both of my cheeks.
"I need you to stay away from him. If you ever hear the name Adam, run. Get the hell away."
"Jeff…"
"Love, listen to me. Taker brought Adam here to kill you. If anyone can find you, he can. Sophi, I can't lose you."
"I'm not going anywhere. I promise, I'll run. I don't want to be lost." I said quietly against his chest. He kissed the top of my head.
"Come home with me, Sophi. We'll spend the rest of the day alone and then I'll bring you back to work tomorrow. I just need you with me today."
"Jeff, I want to but I can't. I have to finish my article. Even thought no one but Chef and I read them, I still want to get it into the paper. I lifted my head to look at him. "I really do like my job. I kinda want to keep it." He kissed my forehead.
"Love, I don't want to quit your job. I, for one, enjoy your articles. You're an amazing writer, Sophi." He helped me off the desk. "Plus, I kinda have an in with the guy that owns the paper. I think he can cut you a break for the day off." I smiled at him.
"Do you think so? I heard he's a bit of a hard ass." Jeff got a wicked gleam in his eyes as they flashed Emerald.
"Do you want to know what he thinks about you ass?" I hit him with my own wicked grin.
"I was kinda hoping, may be later, he would show me."
Jeff went to talk to Matt while I gathered my things for the day. I wrote John a note, letting him know what was going on and dropped it on his desk as I left. I met Jeff downstairs in front of the building. I knew people watched me climb into that sleek, shiny black car and drive off. New rumors started to fly when that same car dropped me off the next morning. At least these rumors got the boyfriend right. But now they were saying that was how I got my job. Ha, that was funny. If I was sleeping with Jeff for a job, I'd be writing front page articles, everyday. Hell, I might even have Chef's job.
Late, one Saturday afternoon, John and I were hanging out at Starlight. We went down there for an early dinner. We sat in Maggie's section, of course. The diner was pretty quiet tonight. It was Maggie and Crystal waiting on customers and Pops, who ran the diner, in the kitchen. There was one other table and it was Mary and her son Dylan. They were regulars. They came in all the time. Yeah, they were quiet tonight. Jeff had something come up at the hotel so he had been over there most of the day. I was going to meet him in a few hours at my place.
I looked up from the menu when I heard the door jingle, indicating someone opened the door. I watched Randy walk in the door. He headed straight our table.
"Here comes Randy." I told John. "Now we get to watch him and Maggie kiss all night." John made a face.
"Yeah, it's kinda like you and Jeff make-out all the time."
"We do not make-out all the time. Just…part of the time. Don't be so jealous, John. I'm sure you can find some willing donor to bide you time with." I told him with a smile.
"Ha ha, very funny Sophi." He leaned forward on his forearms. "You know, if you weren't gonna be Queen, I'd…"
"You threatening the Queen, Johnny Boy?" Randy asked, sliding into the seat next to me. He nudged me lightly with his elbow. "Don't worry Sophi. I got your back." I smiled at him. I turned to stick my tongue out at John who stuck his out in return. We all turned to the end of the table as Maggie walked up.
"Hey guys." She said to me and John. Then she smiled at Randy. "Hey."
"Hey baby." He leaned up (as she leaned down) and kissed her. She slid into the eat beside John.
"So, what do you guys want to eat?" We gave her our orders.
"Mag, why don't you put in an order for yourself and eat with us." She waved me off.
"Not right now. Let me go put your order in."
John, Randy and I sat there talking while we waited on our food. Finally, Maggie came back with our plates. She passed them out and sat back down beside John. She just jumped in our conversation. I smacked at her hand as she kept grabbing fries off my plate.
"Go get some food for yourself and stop eating my fries, damn it." I told her. She grabbed another fry.
"But yours always taste better." She got up as Mary and Dylan were leaving. "Bye you two." They waved at Maggie. "Hey Dylan." She called out to them, stopping them at the door. "You forgot your sucker, sweetie. She reached into the jar by the register and pulled out the last sucker. He walked over to her and gave her a hug to thank her.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome, kiddo." Dylan turned and waved at us. Of course, we all waved back. Maggie noticed that the jar was empty. She walked over to grab the stepstool. She pulled it out of it's hiding place and drug it over to the storage area behind and above the register. I noticed Randy had stopped eating and was watching her intently. Maggie climbed to the top step. She reached above her head to grab the box of suckers on the top shelf. I heard Randy make a quiet noise as Maggie leaned over, at her hips, and set the box down on the counter. The motion pulled her jeans tight across her butt.
"Damn." John said. He had also noticed Randy's direction of attention. Randy smiled.
"I know. Would you believe that it looks just as good out of those jeans?"
"Come on, guys! I so don't want to hear you talk about Maggie's ass." John and Randy both laughed at me.
"Would you rather we talk about your ass?" John asked. I pointed at John with my French fry.
"Only if, when Maggie comes back, I can talk about how hot Jeff's ass is." They both made an unhappy face. John held his hands up in surrender.
"Okay, we give. No more 'ass' talk." I smiled, eating my fry. Maggie eventually came back over with a big basket of fries. She sat them down in the center of the table and plopped back down beside John. I started to zone out on the conversation. I was wondering where Jeff was, right now. Was he thinking about me too?
"Great." Maggie said when the door jingled. I looked up and saw a group of 4 guys walk in the door. I felt Randy's whole body stiffen beside me. "These guys are so annoying." Maggie said. I noticed that John had gone stock still in front of me. He was staring over my head at the reflection in the window. This wasn't good." These guys come in here all the time. See that really tall one with the shaved head? He never talks. I think I've heard the other's call him Kane. He kinda scares me." I could totally see why. "The other one, with the short blonde hair, that's Jay. I don't mind him so much. He comes in by himself sometimes and isn't as rude as he is when he's with them. Oh, and then there's Adam. He's the one with the longer blonde hair." My ears perked up. Maggie shivered. "He really creeps me out. He just stares at every woman like they're something to eat." Oh, crap. Was this the Adam that Jeff had been telling me about? "Then we come to the asshole in the hat. 'Just call me Miz, sexy.'" She lowered her voice to imitate him. "I can tell you exactly what he's gonna do…" She proceeded to tell us, step by step, exactly what he did.
Miz stood up, readjusted his hat and scanned the diner, looking for Maggie. When he found her sitting at our table, he smiled. He dug in his pocket and pulled out what looked like a quarter. Then he smacked Adam on the shoulder. He asked him for quarters. Adam grumbled something and handed him a handful of change. He made his way over to the older jukebox in the corner. He flipped through the song till he found the one he was looking for.
He fed what looked like 4 or 5 quarters in the jukebox and hit the same sequence of numbers again and again. He strutted back to his seat. I saw Maggie grit her teeth as Rod Stewart's 'Maggie Mae' started playing. She stood up.
"God, I hate J-10." She walked over to their table to take their order. We overheard everything. "What'll you guys have tonight?" She asked. I saw the one called Kane point to something on the menu. She nodded and wrote it down. Jay ordered the club sandwich. Adam ordered the steak, rare. Then there was Miz. "What would you like?" She asked him without looking up from her pad.
"How about me, you and a little alone time in the back office?" He wiggled his eyebrows at her.
"I keep telling you 'no'. I have a boyfriend."
"So what Sexy? That never stopped anyone before. It's not like he's here or anything. You know you want a little of the Miz." She rolled her eyes. Randy's hand was clinched so tight on the table, his hand was vibrating. I laid my hand over his, trying to calm him down. His eyes were black. He was seconds from getting out of his seat and hurting someone. I whispered for him to calm down. He nodded and took a couple deep breaths.
"Actually," Maggie started, "my boyfriend is sitting right over there." She pointed to our table. Miz glanced at our table. He grinned and scoffed.
"Whatever you say. How about you give me whatever that pretty little brunette is eating." He nodded his head towards me.
"Fine." She walked back over to our table. "See what I mean." She shook her head and went back to place their order. I saw that Randy and John had stopped eating.
"Okay, who are those guys?" I asked. They looked at each other and then at me.
"They're Taker's men." John said quietly. "And they know who we are." Oh shit! That was the Adam I was supposed to staying away from. Now, I was kinda scared. I knew there was a threat but I never actually accepted it until they were sitting a couple of booths away. Maggie walked back by with their drinks. She was about set down Miz's drink (the last one), when he grabbed her butt. If may hand wasn't on his arm, Randy would have launched himself out of the booth. Maggie slammed Miz's drink down.
"How many times do I have to tell you not to touch me?" Maggie said to him. "I'll have you kicked out of here and banned from ever coming back."
"Come on Maggie Mae. We both know you don't have the power to do that."
"Really? I may not have the power, but I personally know someone that does."
"Oh shit!" John said under his breath. I had a bad feeling I knew what was about to happen.
"Maggie?" Randy called out, trying to get her attention. She turned to him, only to have Miz grab her arm and turn her back to him.
"And who would that be Sexy?" She turned and pointed at me.
"You see that 'pretty little brunette over there?"
"Maggie?" Randy called. She didn't stop.
"She's dating the owner of this place. Do you know who Jeffery Hardy is?" Their entire table froze.
"What does he have to do with anything?" Miz asked.
"Maggie! I need you!" Randy called out to her again. She turned, only to be yanked back by Miz.
"What does he have to do with anything?" Miz asked her again, dragging out every word.
"Sophi's been dating him for almost a year." As one, the entire table turned to look at me. John tried as best as he could to block me with his body, but the damage had been done. I had been exposed.
"Time to go." John said quietly to me. Randy nodded.
"I'll distract them. You get Sophi out of here. I'll meet you back at the apartment." Randy stood up and walked over to the juke box. It was still playing that damn song. I slid out of the booth. John was right there, blocking me from them. He started pushing me towards the back. The music abruptly stopped. I caught a glimpse of Randy pulling his bloody hand out of the center of the jukebox. As soon as John and I cleared the swinging door to the back, he pulled out his phone and dialed. Two seconds later, someone answered.
"Jeff, its John. We got a problem." He held out a hand to me. I took it and then we were in my apartment. "We were found out." He paused. "No, she's okay. We vanished to her apartment." Pause. "Okay." He flipped the phone closed.
"John, what's going on? Where is Maggie? What did Jeff say?" I was getting a little scared. He put a hand on my shoulder.
"Calm down, Sophi. It's okay. Maggie is coming with Randy. And Jeff is on his way." I blew out a breath, trying to calm down.
"Okay." I felt that atmosphere change and turned to find Jeff standing there. He rushed over to me, instantly enclosing me in his arms.
"Love, are you okay?" I nodded against his chest.
"I'm okay, Jeff." He kissed the top of my head.
"What happened?" Jeff asked John. He gave Jeff a quick rundown of what happened at the diner and what Maggie told them. I felt Jeff's arms tense up around me when John told him that Maggie pointed me out specifically.
"I'm sorry, Jeff. I failed you. I'll understand if you need to punish me." John bowed his head.
"John…" Jeff started. I pushed back from him.
"No, Jeff. You can't punish him. He didn't do anything wrong. I don't want anyone punished because of me. Please, Jeff." He kissed my forehead, pulling me back to him.
"I'm not going to, love. It's not his fault. It's mine." I looked up at him.
"Yours?" He nodded.
"Both you and Randy have been asking me for permission to tell her. This is my fault for telling you 'no'. When Maggie and Randy get here, we'll tell her everything." I laid my head back on his chest. A few seconds later, we heard Maggie and Randy coming up the hall. Maggie was upset that Randy had just drug her away from work.
"Randy, I could lose my job for this." She told him, working the key in the lock.
"You won't lose your job, baby. I promise." She pushed open the door.
"I hope you're…shit!" She turned and noticed the three of us standing there. "What the hell? How did you two get here so fast? Randy practically ran me down here."
"Randy, Maggie, come in and shut the door." Jeff's voice took on that authoritative tone. Was it weird that I thought it was hot? Randy nudged Maggie further into the apartment and shut the door. Randy walked over to Jeff and bowed his head.
"Jeff, I'm sorry. I take full responsibility for what happened. Please don't blame Maggie, she didn't know."
"Randy," Jeff placed a hand on his shoulder, "it's okay. No one's in trouble. We need to tell her." Randy nodded.
"Maggie," I said, "you should sit down." Jeff walked me over to one corner of the couch. He sat down, pulling me down beside him. He wrapped his arm around me, rubbing my shoulder lightly. I leaned my head against his shoulder.
"Umm…okay." She walked over and sat in the armchair opposite of me and Jeff. She looked a little nervous. John stayed back by the door.
"Randy, go ahead." Jeff said, motioning with his free hand for him to proceed. He nodded.
"Maggie, I…" Randy started pacing. "I've been wanting…" He blew out a breath. He ran his hand through what little hair he had. (Its cut pretty short.) "It's just that…"
"Randy, you're starting to scare me." Maggie said quietly. She had started to twist her hands together, a sure sign that she was nervous and heading into scared.
"Randy," I said, getting his attention, "just tell her."
"Okay." He walked over and knelt in front of her. He took both of her hands in his. He inhaled deeply and let it out slowly. "Baby…I'm a vampire." Her eyes narrowed.
"Randy, that's what you wanted to tell me? Are you shitting me? You pulled me away from my job, that I'm probably going to get fired from, and brought me here for some joke. This is redicu…"
"Maggie, baby, this isn't a joke. I really am a vampire. John's one. And Jeff," he nodded his head back towards where Jeff and I were sitting on the couch, "is too. Jeff is actually the King of the city. Sophi is destined to become our Queen." He went on to explain everything. Just like Jeff explained everything to me. You know, the whole born that way, the concept of a kept and becoming trued, the not drinking blood from a person and only biting their kept, their speed, strength and the ability to heal quickly. He also told her about the vanishing.
She just sat there, silently listening to everything Randy told her. When he finished, she just smiled, right before she started laughing quietly.
"How could I be so stupid?" Maggie lifted her hand and rubbed Randy's cheek. He leaned his face into her hand. "I knew you were too good to be true. I understand that I was just a plaything to you. You could have just broken up with me instead of coming up with this whole elaborate story. I'm a big girl, I could have taken it."
"Baby, it's not like that." She smiled at him and dropped her hand.
"Really? You're not gonna break into that whole, 'I really do care about you and it's not you, it's me' thing are you? I don't need it."
"Baby, I'm not breaking up with you. I don't know how to be anymore honest with you. I'm telling you the truth. Ask anyone in this room. They all know the truth too. Please, this is important for you to believe me." She looked around at us.
"I don't need to. I know John and Jeff will back you up cause they're your friends."
"Ask Sophi." He was almost pleading with her.
"Fine. Sophi, do you believe any of this?"
"Maggie, he's telling you the truth. They really are vampires." Maggie laughed and shook her head.
"What was I thinking asking you? You've been obsessed with anything like that since you were 8 years old. Of course, you would jump at any opportunity to believe something like this." I sighed.
"Randy, take her into her room and show her. Do the eyes and the vanishing thing." I told him. He nodded and stood up. He held out his hand to her.
"Wow. You're just gonna do it because she said so?"
"She's going to be my Queen. I'm not stupid. You never upset the Queen." That made me smile to myself. Maggie rolled her eyes. She took his hand.
"Okay, let's get this over with." Randy pulled her up from the chair and led her back to her room. He shut the door. But, you know how the walls are in apartments. We heard every word, slightly muffled. "So, what do you have to show me Randy? Do you have a set of those snap on fangs? They really are kinda convincing. I bought Sophi a pair a couple of years ago. She used to wear them around the apartment and scare the crap out of me." That brought a quiet laugh from John and Jeff. Jeff leaned in and kissed my cheek.
"Do you still have them?" He whispered in my ear. I nodded. "It would be so damn sexy to see you with fangs, love." He kissed my ear. He pulled back to smile at the blush forming on my cheeks. He kissed my nose and relaxed back in the couch, taking me with him. I only saw Jeff's fangs right before he bit me. Never any other time.
"No, I'm not going to show you my fangs. My eyes, they change color with my emotions."
"Okay." Maggie said, totally devoid of any emotions.
"I need you to touch me Maggie." She let out a burst of a laugh. Just one loud 'ha'.
"You're breaking up with me and you want one last quickie before you go? No way." Randy sighed.
"Maggie, please. Just touch me like you did last night."
"Oh, you mean like when we were having sex?" She said sarcastically.
"No, baby. When we were making love. You're more than just sex to me. You have to know that. Please, just, wrap your arms around my neck or anything to bring your body close to mine." He was quiet for a bit. "Please baby." Randy said quietly.
"Okay, okay." They were quiet again for a few seconds. "Holy shit!" We heard something hit the wall. I found out later, that was Maggie backing herself into the wall. "How the hell did you do that?"
"I told you, they change with my emotions. They get like this around you. They turn black when I'm angry or upset."
"Oh."
"Tell me a place that you've always wanted to go. Some place you could never get to but always wanted to go to."
"Umm…Rome. I've always wanted to go but I couldn't afford to go."
"Okay. Wait right here." I heard her sharp intake of breath. He must have vanished.
"Oh my God!" We heard that sound against the wall again. "Oh my God, Randy. What was that? Where did you go?"
"I went to Rome for you. Jeff told me that the paper thing worked for Sophi, so…here."
"What is this?"
"It's tomorrows paper from Rome."
"This is written in Italian. Where did you get this?"
"From Rome, Maggie." The door to her bedroom flew open and she came running out causing Jeff and I to sit straight up.
"Okay, how the hell did you pull this off?" She threw the paper down in front of Jeff. "I know you have more money then anyone in this city but what I don't know is why you picked me to screw with."
"Maggie…" I tried to stop her.
"I don't want to hear it Sophi. I'm sure you just want to defend your boyfriend." She held up her hand.
"Maggie, stop!" She looked at me for the first time since running back into the room. I stood up with Jeff right behind me. "Listen to me. None of what you heard tonight is a lie. Come on, Mags. You know me. I'm the most skeptical person you know. Sure, I read all those books and love anything related to the legends but you and I both know, I never believe a damn thing in those legends and stories. Believe me when I tell you this, vampires are real." I felt Jeff take my hand and intertwine our fingers. "Trust me, not all of them are evil like they want you to believe." Maggie just stared at me for a second. I saw it on her face the second she let everything sink in and realized that I was telling the truth.
"Oh my God." Maggie said quietly to herself. Randy, who had come in behind her, went to touch her arm.
"Baby…" Maggie pulled back out of his reach.
"No, please don't." I saw Randy's face fall momentarily as he dropped his hand. She wrapped her arms around herself. John spoke up.
"Jeff, if you don't need me, I'm gonna head out." Jeff nodded.
"You're good. Hey, thanks." He told John.
"No problem." He winked at me. Then he vanished. I heard Maggie suck in her breath again.
"Maggie," Jeff said, taking a step towards her. She instinctively step backed from him. "I know I can't tell you what to do but I suggest that you and Randy get this out of the way." He paused. I stepped in front of him, stopping him from scaring Maggie anymore. Jeff looked down at me. I laid my hand against his chest.
"Let me try, okay?" He lifted my hand, kissing my palm, then cupped it to his cheek.
"Okay love. Just she needs to know…" I put my thumb on his lips, stalling his speech.
"I got this." He bowed his head to me.
"Okay love." He let go of my hand and I turned back to face Maggie.
"Maggie, Jeff and I are going to spend the night at his place. Why don't you and Randy stay here? Randy will explain everything. You can ask him anything and he'll tell you what's going on." Maggie hugged herself a little tighter and looked at the floor. I could tell she was nervous to be alone with Randy. "Mags," I touched her arm, making her look at me, "Jeff and me are gonna go in my room and get a few things okay?" Maggie nodded but didn't look at Randy. I grabbed Jeff's hand, walking past Randy. "Convince her to let you stay." I whispered to him. He nodded. Jeff let me pull him into room. I shut the door.
"What did you need from in here, love?" Jeff asked. I waved him down.
"Shh…" I leaned in to the door. "I can't hear." I whispered to him. Jeff stepped up behind me, pressing his body up against mine. He placed a hand on either side of my head, caging me in.
"I can hear everything. I can hear Maggie breathing." He leaned in. I felt his breath on my neck. "I can hear your heartbeat." He kissed the side of my throat. "It's beating faster now, love."
"Jeff," I breathed, "baby, stop distracting me. I want to hear." He kissed again.
"Okay, love. Later." I nodded.
"Yes, later." I agreed as I heard Randy speak up.
"Maggie, I'm sorry I had to tell you this way. I don't want you feel…"
"Randy, I don't think this is going to work." Maggie said quietly. "You don't have to explain anything else to me. Don't worry, I won't say anything to anyone. I'll keep your secret."
"Baby, that's not what I meant." I heard the sound of shuffling clothes. "Baby, please don't walk away from me. I won't touch you. I swear I won't hurt you, baby. The thought of you hurt…" He paused for a second. "Maggie, I know you feel uncomfortable with me here now, but if you let me just stay...I will sleep on the couch. I have more things to tell you and...I just need to make sure that you're safe tonight."
"Why?" Maggie asked him.
"Because, baby, you're my kept." Randy told her.
"Me?" She seemed genuinely confused as to what he was telling her. I could barely hear Randy sigh. Jeff had started to kiss around my ear. As much as I wanted to hear what was happening in the other room, I was having a hard time focusing with Jeff so close to me. I lifted an arm up behind my head to run my fingers through Jeff's hair as Randy continued on.
"Do you see how Jeff is around Sophi?" Maggie must have nodded, cause Randy kept going. "She's everything to him. That's what you are to me. It would kill me to, but if you ask me to I'll leave."
"Randy," she stopped for a moment, "I feel like I should be hauling ass in the opposite direction from you right now but for some reason, I can't. What is it about you? I feel draw to you."
"You can feel the connection between us can't you baby?"
"That must be it cause right now, even after everything you just told me...I still want to be with you."
"That's good baby."
"Randy, will you do something for me?"
"Yes, baby. I'll do anything. What do you want me to do?"
"Stay."
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