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We’d take her anywhere and everywhere.
The sun set as the lights came on from the fishing boats on the water.
Gathering up our trash, we deposited it in the garbage, freeing up the table for a group of teenagers.
Taking her hand, I brought her to the water’s edge so we could watch the sunset.
“Can we go for a walk on the beach while you hold my hand?” she asked softly, as the waves lapped.
“Is your foot up to that?” I asked. She’d stopped wearing her walking cast and wrist splint, but I still worried about it being too much.
“Yes. Your dick worked its healing magic on me, and I feel just fine.” She grinned.
“I am here to serve.” I gave a mock-bow.
She took off her shoes and held them in one hand, the other entwined with mine. A look of delight crossed her face as she squished her toes in the sand.
“Are you doing okay with work and everything?” It seemed like it. Though she would ask me questions at lunch and on the way home.
“It’s only been two weeks. Our lunch times help–and the cheat sheet Spencer made for me. The science is brilliant, and my mind isn’t sluggish anymore. Truly, I’m excited. Also, everyone’s sort of weird so I hope any quirks I have will just blend in.” She beamed.
Relief sluiced over me. Also, Grace was right. Special Projects was full of neurodivergent genuineness, of course she’d fit right in. There, quirks were expected.
“What about you? Are you doing okay? You swam a whole lot of laps after your therapy session.” She squeezed my hand.
The sun was setting, and we weren’t the only couple out here, though many of them were sitting on the rocks.
“It’s hard sometimes. But dealing with everything that happened when I was nineteen is a long time in coming,” I replied. Though part of the difficulty was leaving out the bits about not being able to find her because she was in a parallel world. More because I didn’t want to be judged. I tried so fucking hard...
“Hey.” Stopping, she pulled me to her. “I’m here and we’re going to have a wonderful life together.”
“Yeah. We are.” I kissed the top of her head. “It’s actually really helpful–both our sessions together and my individual ones. We really need to find someone for you.”
“Bren says that, too. But short of Spencer managing to find a list of all the omegas his dad hid here and figuring out who became a therapist or counselor, I don’t know how we’ll accomplish that.” She shrugged. “I highly doubt that’s what his dad’s encrypted research is.”
I stopped short. “That is a brilliant idea. If there’s no list maybe somehow Evan can use his connections with the Omega Protection people to work backwards since they helped his dad.”
Getting out my phone I texted both Spencer and Evan the thought.
“I mean, if we did manage to find someone it would be sort of nice.” She bit her lower lip.
“It’ll be something Evan and I can work on while you’re at the science fair with Spencer.” It was getting dark so I turned around so we could head back toward the car.
She laughed. “I love that you’re referring to one of the top scientific symposiums in the world as ascience fair.”
I grinned. “It sort of is. Now, let’s go back to the car so we can start that wonderful life you were talking about.”
Chapter Twenty-Six
Grace
It was dark as we drove down a road, but the cute Cape Cod-Esque houses were lit up. Wes had brought me to Seaside! My heart was near bursting that he remembered how much I loved his stories about his visits.
“Thank you for bringing me.” I could smell and hear the ocean.
“I’m loving this. Tomorrow we can go to town and get fudge and look at candles and buy silly things.” He grinned. “Oh, thisbrings back memories. We’d come here other times when I was younger, too, not just in the summer. But the summer visits were my favorite. My grandparents had their hands full with us. It was nice, because I’d been really close to some of them, especially the ones I’d been in a pack with before the divorce.”
“So, packs can be a bunch of families together, not just one family like us?” The sky was full of twinkling stars, and the moon rose in the sky.
