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held back. "B—but, this shouldn't be possible. I can only heal things that are physical. I shouldn't be able to heal you."
    He raised another brow at her. "If you thought that kissing me would do nothing then why'd you kiss me last night?"
    Jackie groaned. The same question Mike asked her, only this time asked by the man she’d kissed. Awkward. "I don't know, okay? It was just something I did."
    He grabbed her hands and helped her to her wobbling feet. He reached a hand to his inside coat pocket and pulled out a black something before handing it to her.
    It was her wallet.
    "Hey! You stole my wallet!" She immediately searched for any missing money or credit cards.
    His voice was flat. "No, you left it in the alley after you ran."
    Jackie's face heated, and what was worse, she found that nothing was missing. "Oh, sorry," she said without knowing why. He broke into her house to manhandle her, and scared the crap out of her. She could be as rude to him as she damn well pleased.
    The problem was that she didn't have much of it in her.
    He slid his hands into his pockets and rocked back on his heels. "So, since I'm new to the city would you show me around?"
    She knelt down to her purse, stored the wallet safely inside, and began picking up the rest of her things. He knelt down to help her, and she could feel his eyes still on her, waiting for her answer. Dammit, her eyeshadow case cracked with the fall.
    “What do you want to see?"
    “Anything that will help me break this curse."
    “This curse shouldn’t exist.” Jackie stood when her things were cleaned up and looked at him. He was determined to do something about his predicament and just as determined that she help him.
    She sighed. "I guess the library is our first stop."
    "Makes sense, where is it?"
    "Far enough away that I'm not walking. How long have you been in town anyway?"
    "Just a few days, I haven't had the opportunity to look around."
    She knew she was probably going to regret it, but she straightened her coat and made the decision to help him.
    "Do you have money for a cab?" There was no way she was going to pay to cart him around town after the scare he put her through.
    "Yeah, we’ll need to take one anyway since I haven’t been using my truck to get around much.”
    “Why not?”
    “It seems faster to get around the city at night without it.”
    She nodded and understood. He’d been using his vampire speed to get around, jumping buildings and the like. Vampires were known to only buy cars for the look of them rather than a need to get around. “I guess it is better on gas.”
    He smiled. “I was a little shocked when I got here to find that all the stores took American currency."
    She blinked at him. "What else would we use?"
    "I don't know, I guess just because this place is so well hidden—"
    Jackie went to the phone and picked up the receiver. "Yeah, yeah, I get it. You're the tourist in town." She dialed the number and told them where to send the cab. "It's going to be a few minutes."
    He nodded, shifting his feet and looking at some of the cheap artwork on her plain, white walls. He was purposely avoiding the garlic spray still stuck in the wall, as well as her.
    She didn't know why it bothered her. He was a stranger in her home and she only shared a few kisses with him, kisses that he needed to become human again. So why did it irritate her so much that he wouldn't look at her?
    "So," he started. "are libraries here anything like libraries ... in the other cities?"
    She spared him a smile. Yeah, definitely new to the whole vampire and witch scene. She'd be nice to him from now on. "Of course it is. This library's pretty nice, a friend of mine works there. She'll probably let us stay after they close."
    "And, what will we be looking for? Spell books?"
    "Uh, no, we'll just sit in the nonfiction section and look up a history of curses. If you are cursed then there's no way your case is going to be unique."
    The headlights of a car shone outside