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“How are things going with you and Vidia?”

I smile at the mention of her and push myself from the wall. I peek into the room, and she has a beautiful smile on her face as she looks at something her new coworker is showing her. After I made that Asher guy quit, Vid immediately got a new coworker, and she claims she loves her.

“Perfect,” I say, and it comes out breathlessly. I remind myself to take a deep breath.

“Perfect?” Kayden sounds like he’s teasing, but I don’t even care. “I saw another article about you guys dating. You haven’t even confirmed it to the public, but after you took her to that lantern show, the media has been obsessed with you guys.”

I feel myself smiling, but I roll my eyes because I hate that paparazzi got so many pictures of what was supposed to be an intimate moment.

After a beat, Kayden adds, “Is she the one?”

“Fuck yeah, she’s the one.” Vidia’s coworker signals toward me, and when Vid turns to me, her face lights up. She makes her way over and tippy toes to kiss me. “Thanks, Kayden. I gotta go, though.” I keep my eyes on my girl as I hang up.

Her brows furrow as she looks between my phone and me. “Kayden? That’s your sponsor, right?”

“Yeah.”

She nods slowly, and I lean forward to kiss her again. “I’m okay. It was just our weekly call.” She nods again, and her smile is back.

“You ready to go? I have a surprise.” As I expected, she asks what it is, but I don’t give any hints as we leave.

Chapter Thirty-Two

Sire

Can you just tell mewhere we’re going?”

“Nope.” I look over at Vid and let my eyes linger on her for a bit longer than needed, admiring the dress she changed into. I can see now why pastel blue is her favorite color. She looks so beautiful, and it might be because it complements her brown skin so well, but I think she just always looks like this in my eyes.

She reaches for her blindfold, but I quickly grab her hand. “Hey! No peeking, you little shit.” She throws her head back laughing as I keep leading her to our destination.

“Okay.” I place my hands on her hips and position her so she’s facing forward. “You can look now.” She takes her blindfold off in a hurry. Impatient as always.

I wait for her reaction as I look between her and the field of sunflowers. A smile slowly grows on her face. She looks down at the picnic, and when her smile grows twice in size, so does mine.

“You really outdid yourself this time.”

I glance back down at the luxurious picnic. It’s definitely a step up from the last picnic we had at the lantern show. The blanket isfluffier, and there's a bunch of pillows. There’s also a short table this time with platters of different foods and desserts.

“Do you like it? I was thinking of getting those tent things, but—” She shuts me up with a kiss.Okay, I’ll take that as a yes.I immediately kiss her back, pulling her in, melting into her.

She pulls away first and glances at the flowers. “Why a sunflower field?”

“They’re your favorite.” I hesitate for a second, then feel my shoulders slouch. “Don’t tell me your favorite flower changed…”

She laughs again, and I realize she was only teasing.Little shit.She takes my hand, and I let her guide me into the field. I keep my eyes on her as her face lights up the further we walk. Her smile still hasn’t left her face as we continue. I don’t see what she finds so fascinating about each flower she stops to look at; they’re all identical, but I don’t burst her bubble.

“I kind of want some.” She looks like she wants to pick one but hesitates and looks over at me. “They’re so tall, I’d need to cut them.” I tell her I’ll be back and run to the picnic blanket, then quickly make my way back to her and hand her a pair of scissors.

“How did you—”

“I know you, Vid.” There was no way I was going to bring her to a field of her favorite flowers and she wasn’t going to walk out of here with at least ten. A warm smile is on her face, and she gets on her tippy toes to quickly kiss me.

She cuts one and brings it to her nose to smell it. When she tries to cut another one, she’s still holding the first flower, so I help her out and hold it for her. I follow her around as she picks the ones she wants and hands them to me. All of the ones she leaves behind look exactly like the six in my arms, but once again, I don’t tell her that.

She hands me the tenth flower and turns to me. “Woah, I didn’t know I picked that many.” I only smile at her. “Can I get afew more?” She turns her head to the side with a hopeful smile, and I only nod. She can have the entire field if she wants it.

“Are those getting heavy?” She hands me the fifteenth sunflower, and I can’t really see much because she’s picking the biggest ones.

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