In which Jake and I settle terms for him living in my apartment. Which was hard, not going to lie. Due to the fact he is the living embodiment of what I would call my perfect man, I had to stop myself from giving him whatever he wanted.

Which wasn't much. Guy barely noticed my probably very copious amounts of drool.

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"So how was your day at work?" Jake's cheery voice made me stare at my front door. I was stupid. A complete idiot. I was supposed to be kicking him out. Instead I let him in like some dumbass bimbo.

I let out a sigh, there was little I could do about it now. "It was fine. The usual creeper came in though." I moved down the hall and flicked on the light. The blackout curtains were pulled closed tight, like I had left them this morning.

Jake wrinkled his nose from his position beside the kitchen table, his arms crossing over his chest. "What? Some dude is creeping on you? Not cool." He shook his head at that and I raised an eyebrow at him as I put my purse down on my counter.

"Says the guy who crawled into my bedroom through the window at three in the morning." I gave him a look and he admittedly looked sheepish as he ran his hand through his hair, causing it to stick up everywhere.

"I really am sorry about that. At least you gotta wicked cool story out of it." He gave me a sheepish smile that made my heart turn over in my chest. Fuck was I a sucker for blue eyes blondies.

"Yah, a story I can't tell anyone. There is no fun in that." I couldn't tell anyone that a baby vampire fell into my room because he was trying to practice being a vampire and I just happened to be the unfortunate victim who had their window open on his six story climb. Trisha for sure would sign me up to be committed. After my trip into bigfoot territory there was no question about what she would end up doing to me for it.

"Yah, that does suck. I didn't think about that. My bad, dude." At the word I narrowed my eyes at him, setting my jaw.

"Sammi, Jake. It's Sammi." He could literally call me anything but dude. Anything but dude. I repressed the shudder I got at the reminder of my old frat friend.

"My bad, Sammi." He once again looked sheepish and I shook my head slightly as I headed for my bedroom. I could hear him following me and I repressed the urge to tell him to fuck off. Apparently I was in a slight mood. I could only blame myself. Baby vamp gave me one soft hug and I melted like butter. Not to mention the dirty, dirty thoughts my libido was sending me. However that was a me problem and not a him problem. "Thanks again for letting me stay, Sammi. I really, really, really appreciate it. Like seriously." At the words I swiped my phone from my bedside table and turned around.

"About that. If you are staying here, there needs to be an agreement in place." I pointed at him with my phone. I might have melted like butter over one hug but that didn't mean he had a carte blanche to do as he wished.

He nodded hastily, walking backwards in front of me as I moved out of my room. "Totally. I'm with you a hundred percent!" He grinned at me and my heart gave that stupid fluttering lurch at it and I mentally slapped my libido.

"Rule one. No biting." I was making that firm. There would be no vampire biting in the apartment while he was round.

"Sounds good. Unless you really want me too." He wiggled his eyebrows at me and my libido soared as my brain flatlined and I was reduced to blinking at him. Images of his teeth scraping across my skin as he stroked me flashed rapidly through my brain, causing me to shudder slightly as my libido heated up. I was speechless and not sure how to respond to that. Jake chuckled as he looked at me. "That was a joke, Sammi." He shifted on his feet and grinned once more.

I pressed my lips together tightly as I beat my libido back with a stick inside my head. This was definitely not good time for it to wake up from its ancient slumber. I pointed at Jake in warning. "Not funny. No biting." And there would definitely be none of me asking him for it. No, sir! Wasn't going to happen at all! "Rule two. Don't ever tell anyone what you are while you are staying here. I already got in trouble with my friends over bigfoot. I don't want to deal with a vampire fallout." I really, really didn't want to deal with that.

"Wait, you knew bigfoot?" Jake gave me a perplexed look that slowly morphed into a grin. "Fuckin gnarly, Sammi."

"No! It's a long story and I'm not getting in to it." I shook my head rapidly as I pressed my fingers to my forehead. "Just no telling anyone. Okay?" I looked at him pointedly and he nodded rapidly. "Rule three. Don't sneak through open windows in the middle of the night. Vampire or not. That lands you in prison or dead." I stressed the word as I set my jaw.

Jake lifted his chin slightly, a mischievous look emerging on his face. "Well technically-"

"Don't, Jake. Don't 'well technically I might be dead' me. I'm trying to make a point." I held up my finger in warning, despite the twitching my mouth was doing as I wanted to smile at the teasing look on his face. I was in so much fucking trouble and I didn't even know how much but it was a lot. "Rule four. No inviting any vampire friends around. I am having troubles with one vampire. I don't need a whole pod of them in my apartment."

At that Jake laughed. "A pod of vampires? You are a fuckin' trip, Sammi. I like it." He gave me a wide eyes excited look like he wanted to become overly exuberant and it made my heart do that stupid fluttering thing in my chest as my libido started to act up once more.

"Forget I said that." I muttered it out, my cheeks a bit red. A pod of vampires? I was fucking stupid. I was happy enough to blame Jake for that though. He was the reason I didn't sleep last night and my stupidity was a direct result of that. "Rule five, do your best to not keep me up at night. I have insomnia and it makes it very very hard to sleep. I need all of the sleep I can get." He was nocturnal so he would have to adjust his new lifestyle with my sleeping disorder. I narrowed my eyes at his easy going posture and attitude. "I'm serious, Jake. You keep me up too much and I will kick your ass back out through my bedroom window." I would send him crashing six stories to the ground if he fucked with my sleeping schedule.

"I hear you loud and clear, Sammi." He saluted me, doing his best to keep his expression serious. I nodded at that, happy he had at least listened and didn't complain.

I turned on my phone and numerous notifications popped up and I dismissed the several missed called from Trisha as I moved back over to my purse. I pulled up the new texts and spotted that Sasha had replied. I opened it and she had written a small apology and said it had came up quick and she wanted to meet for drinks one say soon. I backed out of the message without replying.

"Can I ask you a favour?" Jake was standing far too close and I jumped in surprise, turning my head to glare at him for the shock. He gave me a sheepish smile as he rocked back and forth on his heels. "Please?" At the softly said word and his imploringly sheepish look, I crumbled. I was a fucking sucker. I was being hoodwinked and there was nothing I could do about it.

"Sure. What is it?" I lowered my phone to look at him and he gave a heaving sigh. I was close enough to watch the muscles move underneath his skin and to notice how utterly great he smelled. Like pure heavenly man. I felt my eyes widen as my libido urged me to lean forward and take a deep inhale to get the smell deep into my lungs. That fucking thing could fuck right off with that creepy ass shit.

"I don't have access to anything to help me out but could you help me figure out what it means to be a vampire? I'm lost right now and I need to know what's going on with me." He looked distressed and my heart clenched in my chest at the sight.

"Of course, Jake." It came out softly and he smiled at me so brightly that my breath hitched in my chest. He pulled me close, giving me another hug.

"You don't know how much I appreciate this and you, Sammi. You are the most wicked person in the world right now. I mean that. You are the best." He gave me a squeeze, pulling me closer as he seemed to nuzzle my ear. "It feels good to hug another person, doesn't it?" My libido jumped at the chance to run my mouth and I beat it back with the 'shut the fuck up' stick as hard as I could before anything embarrassing could fall out of my mouth.

"Sure does, buddy." Annnnd there went that.

My cheeks flared bright red and my face felt so heated I knew I could probably fry a whole ass egg on them. My phone rang in my hand, breaking the moment and saving me from having to do my best to recover from that embarrassing fucking moment.