Page 55 of An Unexpected Everything
“Seriously. The kids each have their own room, and you get privacy with Bella back at her apartment.”
“My place is not this nice,” Bella added, and I rubbed the small of her back.
“You’ll remember that I’m a mechanic. I’d rather stay at your place than get oil somewhere here.”
“Dorian is here, you’ll be fine.”
“Hey,” Dorian said, and the twins and Lance burst out laughing.
Somehow everybody was getting along, and blending, and I wasn’t sure how to feel about that.
This wasn’t my place. Isabella was a Cage now. Would this be how she lived? Yes she had that apartment, but she was staying in that huge fucking house in Cage Lake. And she had the ability to build one of her own. At least that’s how I thought the Cages worked.
I didn’t know, and everything just felt odd.
Bella gave me a look. “Everything okay?”
“Yeah. It’s fine. I was just trying to figure out the plans for the day.”
“Well, you and Bella are going to go drop off your things, and then we’ll come and pick you up for our guys’ stag night thing.”
“Okay. That doesn’t sound ominous at all.”
“I’m just excited I can go out with the adults. No more kid table,” Lance said.
“Considering you’re older than a sum of our siblings, I would hope not,” Dorian said with a shake of his head. “Harper though, sorry hon, you’re with the twins.”
“Hey,” Harper said, and Joshua put his arm around his little sister’s shoulders. “See, I like that. Putting her in her place.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll take care of you,” Amy added, and I just stood back as everyone spoke at once, and suddenly I was in my car, driving toward Bella’s place.
“How did that happen so quickly?” I asked.
“I have no idea. Usually I’m the one that organizes things like this, but Blakely and Aston had this down.” She was on her phone, doing a thousand things at once, and I didn’t know if it had to do with work, or the wedding that she was planning with Sophia. I didn’t know how she could handle that and her job at the same time, and spend so much time with me, but I wasn’t going to complain.
Because for some reason it felt like time was quickly running out, and I didn’t want to think about that.
“We’re here, baby,” I whispered, and Bella looked up from her phone and blinked.
“Wow. That was quick.”
“I didn’t hit as much traffic as I thought.”
“You probably will when you guys are doing your thing tonight. We’re heading to a hotel that has a lovely bridal section so we can get ready and have a good time tonight. But I know that you guys should have fun.”
“You’re talking pretty quickly, why are you nervous?” I asked as I turned off the car.
“This is the first time you’re in my home. My real home.”
I reached over and slid my thumb over her lips. She let out a deep breath, and I smiled. “I’m glad I’m here, but if we don’t getinside your apartment right now, I’m going to fuck you in this car, and I have no idea what your neighbors are going to think.”
She blushed, then looked down at her phone. “We don’t have much time.”
“We have long enough.”
Laughing, we grabbed our bags and made our way into her apartment. It was a well-lit area, and I knew that her brothers had added security, as well as her family coming over to water the plants and just take care of it. I also knew that her lease was up soon.
What she was going to do after? I didn’t know.
