Chapter 13 - ForgivenThe knock on the door came approximately five or six minutes after I'd gotten the call from the front desk. I'd asked Dante to stay—in his invisible form, of course—and watch over Lindee, who now had her feet up on the coffee table, munching on microwave popcorn and watching an old movie. I wanted more than ever to just hang out and watch the movie with her. But I knew that wasn't to be.
I opened the door to Stefan's smile and shimmery dark-blue eyes. He wore his usual dark suit with a black shirt and this time it was a pearl-white tie. His vampire scent of leather and licorice hit me just right, and made me want to suck him all in through my nose like a drug. He had formidable pheromones, plus that bad-boy smirk on his face should have been illegal.
Stefan took me i
