I could feel her watching me closely, like I was a picking time bomb waiting to blow up. In all honesty, I felt like I was. Trying to hold it together was becoming hard. I felt an inferno inside myself, the fact he was now in my home was making me itch. I wanted to go rip his face off, the smug f*cker. It was only the vulnerable vampire across the room from me that stopped that happening. Not Penny, Harriett. Now if he rejects her, and she rejects him back, all bets are off. I won't hesitate in killing him, Penny be damned. It is not like he is the person she cared for. I think even she knows that now. I looked up across the room at her, feeling her eyes on me again. I lifted the glass and took a drink of the amber liquid that seared my throat on its way down. Then I dropped my arm, han