It was past midnight when we finally made it back home, and Abby was significantly more at ease as she curled up in my arms in bed.
“They like you,” she murmured against my chest.
“They likeyou, so they accepted me.”
“Same difference.”
I chuckled, running my fingers slowly through her hair and working out a few small snags in the smooth strands. “Good night, Abbs.”
She mumbled an incoherent response, and I watched her face soften as sleep took over.
I was still in shock that fate had given me a mate—let alone one who fit me so perfectly.
Luck was definitely on my side.
Closing my eyes, I dozed off with the woman I was falling for resting peacefully in my arms.
thirteen
ABBY
We spentthe rest of the weekend at Nico’s place. Most of that time was dedicated to letting our wolves run free. Shifting was getting much less painful, so his coaching was working.
He said the credit belonged to me, and that being willing to accept and respect my wolf was what changed things.
I still thought it was his doing, but I wasn’t going to tell him that I wasn’t as awesome as he insisted.
He hated when I did that, and Iwasactually feeling kind of awesome.
Another week passed uneventfully, and we made it back to my apartment early Sunday afternoon.
When that night came around, I picked up my phone while we snuggled on the couch to watch a movie together. Nico was locked in, so I turned the brightness on my device down and opened the email I’d gotten on Friday.
The university wanted my final decision, and a signed contract if I was interested in teaching online.
It came with enough of a pay raise to tell me that they really wanted me to take the job… and I couldn’t imagine commuting back and forth between the college town and the pack’s land if there was another choice.
So I bit my lip, peeked up at Nico long enough to decide that his gorgeous face (and personality, of course) was worth it, and signed the contract for the online position.
Tensing slightly, I waited for regret to set in.
It didn’t.
I was having too much fun being a werewolf.
Too much fun being mated to one, too.
I still didn’t know exactly what next semester would look like for us, but we had time to figure it out. And to be honest, I was pretty sure I was going to love it.
…After I got the balls to tell my friends I was moving to Moon Ridge.
That was going to suck.
Putting my phone down, I decided not to tell Nico yet, either. Just in case it changed things.
I’d tell him when the time felt right, or when it came up naturally in a conversation.
We still had two full months until I’d need to move, so there was no rush.
