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was telling me to find out more. I clearly had some kind of attraction to Jackson, but then who wouldn’t? Not only was he gorgeous, but he had that whole brooding thing going on, which I never realised I was in to until then. I decided to see how I felt in the morning and choose what I was going to do, but at the moment my heart was definitely swinging towards staying in this unfamiliar place, and discovering why the town was so wary of strangers. I left the tub with a heavy heart as I could have stayed in there forever, no problem, and threw on my underwear before getting in to the bed. Holy shit, it was the most amazing bed I had ever slept on. I pretty much just ended up lost in a mountain of sheets and warm blankets, and I drifted off in to the most comfortable and peaceful night’s sleep I’d had in a long time.
     
    JACKSON
     
    “Fuck, she’s beautiful.”
    “Don’t even think about it. She’s a human.” Okay, so I’d like to think I was warning my brother away from the stranger because I thought she was dangerous, or I got a bad feeling about her. The truth of the matter was that I thought she was beautiful too. I’d only met the woman for five minutes and I was already having thoughts of jealousy towards my brother. Of course, Isaac despised humans more than anyone else I know, so I knew that he would never actually go there with her. Well, nothing more than a night in bed together, anyway.
    “I know she’s a human.” Isaac curled his lip in disgust as we sat in the car, having just said goodbye to my other brother. “It doesn’t mean she wouldn’t be fun for one night though, right?”
    “Urgh, can you think with your head instead of your dick for one minute?”
    “Please, like you weren’t thinking the exact same thing!” Isaac laughed, before I pulled away from the curb and started heading towards his place.
    “Okay, I’ll admit, she’s beautiful. But where the fuck did she come from?” In a close-knit town like ours, any newcomers stuck out like a sore thumb. It was my job to make sure they never hung around, and disappeared before finding out our secrets.
    “Jackson, I do believe I just saw a smile cross your face!” Shit, I thought I’d hidden that.
    “Whatever.” I wasn’t normally such a grumpy guy, but sometimes the responsibilities I had, laid heavily on my shoulders. Thoughts of the pretty new girl kept hitting me, before I remembered that I didn’t have time to think about women, let alone hook up with them. Humans were bad news, and I decided to make it my mission to find out exactly what the beautiful Laura was doing here; wondering why it was I was secretly hoping that she was going to stick around.
    “For whatever reason, she managed to find us. I don’t trust her though, so I’m going to help you keep an eye on her.”
    I laughed at Isaac’s clear negativity about my capabilities.
    “I think I can handle one human woman all by myself.”
    “I don’t know, Jackson. She seemed quite fiery.”
    “Oh please, if I tell her she needs to leave then she will.”
    “If you say so.” Isaac’s smirk pissed me off, but I couldn’t be bothered to argue with him. I let all thoughts of Laura leave my brain when my phone chimed alerting us to trouble in the town centre. Just a normal day, then.
     
    LAURA
     
    Okay, so when I woke the next morning, I honestly had every intention of making the most of the day and figuring out where I was going to head to next. When I woke however, all my positive energy had deserted me. Totally. Relaxing had - it seemed - allowed my facade to dim, and the brutal emotion of all my ex's betrayal was hitting me full force. Questions circulated endlessly in my mind; "Why me?" "What did I do?" "What do I do now?" And my personal favourite "What else did I miss?” I relived every second of what I had perceived to be a happy relationship and found in hindsight signs of trouble everywhere. I didn't know if the signs really existed, or my memory