Chapter 44

Midnight passed, Tommy was fast asleep, and Diana went to Andrew's side and asked him about the thing that bothers her: "Andrew, does a vampire have a mate?"

He sighed so heavily that her shoulders slumped. "What made you ask that, Diana?" He said with amusement in his voice that, by the sudden change of her moods, he sensed her vulnerable state.

“Well, I'm just curious—”

“Don't be.”

“Why?” she hissed, rolling her eyes.

“Diana, you’re way too hard on yourself, stop thinking about things," Andrew said, echoing her mental anxiety.

“Is that really what you want? For us to ignore things between us?”

“For now, yes.”

“Why?”

"Because, as I said, I'm doing this for you. I can't—just let things be professional between us.”

She closed her eyes. “You shouldn’t let what happened in your past colour how you see yourself now. But the whole friends-to-lovers thing can happen, you know. It doesn’t just happen in romance novels. If two people were