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“It’s a Christmas staple that you have to watch and I cannot in good consciencenot let you watch it,” Maverick said, getting comfortable as she searched for the movie.
“Ok,” I said, as I forced myself to relax. I was grateful that they weren’t leaving me and we weren’t dwelling on my nightmare.
I untangled myself as Ruger leaned against the headboard, his shoulder pressed up against my own, passing my tea to me as Winchester laid his head in his lap. Maverick snuggled closer with her back against my legs, and I put a pillow under her head. Winchester threaded his hand through hers and as I watchedthem get comfortable with each other, it tugged at my heart strings.
I knew they weren’t related, but the triplets always seemed to function as one. It was a bond I had never seen before and at first, I thought they were together romantically and maybe they were, but something told me what they had was deeper than that.
I drank my tea as we watched the movie. Winchester laughed the most, Maverick snorted, and Ruger mostly rolled his eyes at the other two, but I saw the amusement in his eyes. The movie was ridiculous, but that's what made it funny, it was exactly what I needed to forget about my dreams.
The tea relaxed me, and I leaned my head on Ruger's shoulder as the parents in the movie frantically decorated their home for their daughter who decided to come to Christmas at the last minute. Fuck that, I would have taken the cruise as my eyelids grew heavy and the comfort of having the triplets close by lulled me to sleep.
Chapter 14
King
It was too early to be up, but if we wanted to make it to Ally before the snowstorm then we had to leave at four in the morning. The morning sun felt good as we rode the last leg of the trip to Christmas town, it quickly disappeared as the storm rolled in.
Boogie was driving a little too fast, but he woke up anxious to get to Ally already. Since he had walked out on us five days ago, he had been on a mission, and until today I had no idea what that mission was. Boogie didn’t ever apologize and this was as close as we were going to get to it.
The town slowly came into view as the first few flurries started to fall. We took the road to the back of the compound, entered our code and opened the new gate that had just been installed. Before I had my helmet off, Boogie was already knocking at the door. We messaged Lance this morning before we took off, and hopefully he was already up. He knocked again as he held his phone up to his ear. I walked up and it opened abruptly with a disheveled looking Lance glaring at us.
“It’s seven-thirty in the morning,” he grumbled.
Boogie didn’t say anything but pushed his way past Lance.
“He’s anxious to see her,” I said, clapping his shoulder.
“Whatever,” he said, as he locked up, reset the alarm and walked away from me.
I chuckled as I followed Boogie and ran into him as I walked into her room.
“Damn don’t they look cute,” Boogie whispered.
“Who looks cute?” I looked over his shoulder, growled, and pushed Boogie out of the way.
“King,” he sighed.
The triplets were in bed with Ally. Maverick was spooning her as Winchester faced her with Rugger behind him on his back. Maverick smirked at me as she pulled Ally closer to her.
“Get the fuck out of her bed,” I snapped, at the foot of the bed.
“Hey.” Ally grinned sleepily at me. “I've missed you.”
She held out her hand to me. She looked so fucking adorable, I wanted to stop being mad and join her in bed.
“I’ve missed you too, Doll.” I leaned over and kissed her hand.
She grinned.
“The rest of you get the fuck out of her bed,” I growled while I looked at each of them.
“Don’t get your panties in a twist.” Winchester rolled his eyes as he stretched out in the bed while Ruger got up cracking his neck.
“I think I’m fine right here.” Maverick snuggled into Ally who laughed.
I unzipped my jacket ready to grab my gun when Boogie pulled me towards him.
“Come on guys, daddy doesn’t like it when you sneak into mommy's bed without him,” Boogie scolded them like they were his children. “Behave.”
