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“And you’re pregnant,” Claudia said, “that alone will exhaust you. Alex, take your man to bed. We’ll kick everyone out and clean up.” She winked at me. “I’ll make sure the leftover rice finds its way into the fridge for you.”
Alex pulled me to my feet, his arm around my shoulders.
“You just got moved up to favorite sister.” I winked at her.
“Wait, who was your favorite?” Araceli demanded to know, looking slightly put out.
“I’ll never tell,” I called, as Alex gently pulled me into the house, which was surprisingly quiet and void of people.
Stopping, I turned in his arms, looping my arms around his neck and pulled him down for a kiss. “I like your family.”
He brushed my hair back from my forehead. “They like you too.”
“Will you teach me Spanish?”
“If you’d like.”
Another yawn escaped, and tiredness slammed into me like a Mack truck. “Alex?”
“Hmmm,cariño,” he murmured into my hair.
“Take me to bed.”
“Always,mi amor."
Chapter Fifteen
Seth
May
Nibbling on the tender skin around my thumbnail, I stared at my phone in my hand, wondering how long I could wait to answer Alex’s text before he sent out the National Guard.
Alex:How’s it going?
Glancing around the empty boxes beside my couch, my brain tried to come up with how to respond. I’d been putting him off the last three weeks, and now my time was up.
Lying, my cougar reminded me, not at all sympathetic to my plight.You’ve been lying to him the last threeweeks.
Not on purpose! I planned to pack.
My cat snorted.
I did! Then I got here, and there was so much to do, and I just…noped out and didn’t do anything.
Not true. You binged a show and played games on your phone.
Well, when he put it that way it just sounded bad.
Me:Great! Almost done! On the last box now!
That was a lot of exclamation points. Had I oversold it?
Probably not, since I had been coming to my apartment every night for the last three weeks after work. Staying for three to four hours, before winding up at Alex’s for the night completely exhausted.
All in preparation of moving day. Which was in two days. Two days!
Looking around my fully not-one-thing-packed apartment, I sighed.
