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“C’mon,” he grinned. “Lemme show you our room,” he told her, pulling her up and through the foyer to the stairs. She had to run to keep up, giggling as he rushed her up.

He pushed into the very first room and Sailor paused for a split second before rushing in and jumping into the bed with her mother. “MOM! You’re here! How are you here?”

“They moved us here this morning? They said we’re living here now! They hired nurses to come out to us?”

“Gramma too?” Sailor asked, awestruck.

“Room across the hall,” Geo told her, coming to her and taking her hand. “C’mon. You kin see her later, I got somethin’ you need ta see.”

Sailor hugged her mom, then let Geo pull her out of the room and up the other side of the hall.

The room he pushed into was enormous, the walls covered in bookshelves and a sizeable three-sided desk in thecenter. One wall was nothing but windows, all with birdfeeders on them high and low, and squirrel feeders with a little rope bridge coming from the tree.

“Got your setup here,” he told her breathlessly, then immediately pulled her out of the room and opened the door next to it, pulling her in. Picking her up and spinning her, he tossed her onto the huge bed. “Alright now, Rue. We gon’ talk, me ‘n you. Here’s how things is. No more blood for you, you hear me?”

“Yeah?”

“No more checkin’ you or your mouth, yeah?”

“Ok?”

“N’ no more tryna kill me.”

Sailor giggled again, shaking her head, “Ok?”

“You good with that deal? We get along okay with that?”

“Ok,” she breathed, her eyes bright as he leaned over her on the bed.

“You’d agree ta anythin’ right now, long as I yanked them clothes off you and made you mine, huh, Rue? How ‘bout we talk again after I fuck you?”

“Ok,” she agreed quickly, pulling his shirt off for him before pulling him closer.

Chapter 37

Two hours later, Geo jostled her as he kissed her, keeping her from passing out. “Nah, Rue. Get up for me. Get in the shower real quick ‘n I got clothes there for ya, k?”

“Nnnn… just a few minutes?” she begged, trying to get him to move in closer to cuddle her.

“Nah, c’mon. We got shit ta do, le’s go.”

Sailor groaned as he pulled her into the bathroom, but woke up quickly in the shower as he helped her, smirking down at her as he soaped her up.

“What happened to hurrying?” she asked with a grin as his hands slid over her body, exploring.

“Yeah… ain’t shit happenin’ till we get down there,” he rumbled. “You good, Rue? You head on right now?”

“Yeah, Geo… I understand. I agree to your terms, such as they are. You don’t hit me anymore or kill people in front of me or on me or for me. You don’t try to control me, and I won’t try to kill you.”

“Or get away. You do what you claimed you would, start on them accounts ‘n shit. Alla that. You be mine?”

“And you’re mine?” she asked, blushing.

“Yeah, aight,” he chuckled, helping her rinse off. “You’s pretty tired, huh?”

“I’m okay… I can wait as long as I need to,” she promised him, wondering what he had planned.

“Yeah,” he agreed. “Le’s do this, then,” he grinned, pulling her out and tossing a towel at her. “You got clothes there, Rue.”

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