Ryder
"So, wait a minute, after everything that you've put yourself through during this past month, you still didn't hurt enough to want her back?"
The look on Xander's face as he sat across from me, could be described as nothing more than pure disbelief. There was no point in denying that he had lost some color once I had narrated the events of the previous night, but I didn't comment on it. The less I said, the better for the both of us.
"That's exactly what I'm saying. And besides, she's a royal now. Why would she take me when she has the vampire prince laying a claim on her?"
I let out a careless shrug-even though careless was far from what I was feeling-and continued to fill out the documents that had stacked up on my desk since my departure. I looked up at Xander when I heard a
