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His lips curled into a smile. “Ah,cariño, I love you.”

After a long kiss and the sound of my stomach growling with hunger having the moment broken. We went to work on finishing the cooking of dinner.

Life was unpredictable and unfair, but I hadn’t realized until I glanced at Emery sitting across me at the table while we ate the rescued dinner.

Life was short. I wasn’t going to waste any more of mine worrying if I would be enough for him. I would worry about Dirk, but I’d accept his decision. I was going to grab what life was offering and he sat in front of me. I planned to hold on tighter.

Besides, I always been smart and I knew together we would be stronger than we would be apart.

Chapter Thirteen

Coast

We pulled up to Kiyaya’splace. I’d driven my truck with a trailer attached to haul the windows and roofing supplies we were going to need to do the work on Kiyaya’s house. I got out of the driver’s side, then moved to the passenger door on my side to help Mac out.

“Does everyone have to own these monster trucks?” Mac said as I grabbed her waist and lifted her out.

It wasn’t as hard I thought to get Mac to agree to come with me. She rescheduled appointments for the few days we’d be here, and Dr. Sampson would handle any births or emergencies in her absence.

After the phone call from her brother, she’d had problems sleeping a few nights. I’d even caught her crying in the bathroom a couple of times. She might have accepted Dirk’s choice, but it hadn’t kept the hurt his decision caused her. Then she’d worried for days that announcing she loved me after having a freak out as she called it would make me question if she really meant it. I told her if it bothered her that much, she could keep telling me over and over until it sank in. Though, I knew she loved me because it showed in her eyes every time she looked at me. When she cried, I convinced her she needed a few days away and asked her to come with me. And it had been the right decision. The further away from Shades Valley we’d gotten, I saw her relax more and more.

“I’m surprised we didn’t get pulled over for not having Mac in a booster seat,” Flirt said from the other side of the truck. Both doors were still open, and Mac looked through and flipped him off.

“Mac, you can sit up front on the way home, and I’ll sit in the back with Flirt. I don’t think I can handle the two of you bickering at each other on the way home,” my dad said as he walked around the front of the truck.

I chuckled and looked at Mac. “Don’t listen to either of them. They’re just testy because of being in the cage.”

“The trip was only a few hours. How can they be bitchy?”

“An hour is too many. And hell, why did the res put a stop to any alcohol?” my dad griped.

“We hoped it would keep bikers from coming through here, but here you are,” Kiyaya said as he stepped out onto the porch.

“Jesus, man, when did you get so old,” my dad said as he walked toward Kiyaya.

“Eh, have you looked in the mirror lately,” Kiyaya said, then shook hands with my dad.

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