Shaking his head at the notion, Jess smiled, “Never too far out of my way.” Even if she was just a human. He may have preferred his own kind but good manners and common decency applied to all walks of life; his mama and pa had beaten that belief into his head as well as others and it had stuck with him. Funny thing about being a vampire; you weren’t human but some human things just…stuck. “No such thing, in fact.” When you had traveled the length and width of the country like he had it put distance into a different kind of perspective.
They stepped out onto the sidewalk and began walking in the direction of Ashleigh’s apartment. “So tell me more about yourself,” he requested good-naturedly, blue-grey eyes glancing off the crowd to rest on her. “If you don’t mind, of course.” He smiled in a charming, apologetic way, “I’m a curious fella by nature.” He chuckled as if he were fondly revisiting some moment of his past. “Got me into a lot of trouble when I was a boy.”