Page 45 of Finding Closure

“What did you have today?” she asked, chuckling when I listed what I remembered. “Chinese?”

“Yes, please,” I groaned. Yeah, that sounded perfect for sure.

I headed back to Faerie and did the portal dance, actually walking through the castle to see how it all looked now to come up to our suite.

“I got you, shorty,” Hudson whispered, and I was suddenly in his arms. He frowned when I stared up at him. “You were dozing off while walking and almost fell over. Give yourself a healing rune, Tams. You’re exhausted and stressed out.”

“Right, yeah, good idea.” I did it but still zonked out before we even reached the suite.

I really, really sucked sometimes, definitely as a partner for sure.

I woke a bit later when my stomach was growling and I was sprawled on my guys or they were lying on me. Huh?

“You demanded a puppy pile for the first time you slept in your new bed and room,” Darby mumbled, clearly having been sleeping as well. He took in a sharp breath and rubbed his eyes, leaning down and kissing my temple. “It was pretty fucking adorable even if my neck hurts now.”

Because my head was on his chest, but he was laying at a weird angle so six adults could fit on one bed even if it was a custom-ordered oversized one. Crap.

“Sorry,” I mumbled.

“I’m not,” Julian chuckled. “I never napped so soundly while being turned on and snuggled up to your breast like a perv.”

And he was. Lucca on the other side with my right breast looking like it was almost smothering him.

“You’re both pervs,” I drawled.

“Yeah, well, I get extra points because I’m still lying on your hip even after you tooted,” Neldor grumbled. “I’m hungry.”

“I did not!” I gasped. I sat up and glanced down at him in horror before looking at Julian since he was the lightest sleeper. “Did I?”

He shrugged. “I’m sure you did.” He chuckled at whatever was on my face. “Weall do, my sweet mate. Who cares?”

“Everyone poops, everyone toots, and that’s okay,” Lucca mumbled. “How you guys get up for second or third dinner—I’m not good at it.”

Hudson snorted from behind Lucca. “You’re a bear. You basically mini-hibernate when you sleep. Aliens could invade and you’d sleep through it.”

“Unkind but not untrue,” he accepted. He did a double take when he glanced at me. “Tams, Neldor is just fucking with you to be a shit. It’s his default setting. Besides, you are not the worst tooter here. I take that trophy, thank you very much.”

I chuckled, chilling out a bit and wiping the sleep out of my eyes before my stomach growled obnoxiously loudly. Was tooting in my sleep really any worse than that?

Probably not.

I felt better that I hadn’t done it… Until I saw Hudson cuff Neldor upside the head.

So clearly, I had and they were fibbing. Oh fuck, I was embarrassed and laughing at the same time. But then again, they’d all done it too and I’d always ignored it.

Fine, Lucca was right. Everyone pooped and everyone tooted and it was okay.

I would punish Neldor in the morning for picking on me.

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The moment I woke for real, I teleported Neldor to the ocean. Darby was already awake and blinked at me with wide eyes.

I shrugged. “I just wanted him to wake refreshed.”

His lips twitched. “Sure,agra. Sure you did. Please make sure the sharks or whatever won’t eat a vampire if you punish me that way because we know I can’t open portals well when flustered.” He glanced towards the covered windows. “Though a swim in the ocean sounds lovely.”

“Not when it’s this cold,” I argued.

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