Page 77 of Hellfire

“Ah huh.” I swayed my hips back and forth, purposely brushing them with Hallie’s. Arousal began to gather, and she felt my dick hardening.

A sexy little smirk tugged at one corner of her mouth before she looked around and sobered. “Uh, Ayve, before we get carried away—whose apartment are we in?”

“Oh…” I glanced around, feigning confusion. “Ours.”

Her voice pitched. “What?Ours?Since when?”

“Since five minutes ago. Fiona—the woman you glared daggers at—is my agent. She dropped off the keys and we signed all the paperwork. Welcome home, Hellcat.”

Hallie’s mouth worked open and closed as her gaze darted around the empty apartment. “I don’t get it. I’m moving back onto the compound and you’re returning to Fort Irwin.”

I shrugged. “I mean, you can move back to the compound if you really want to, but I’m moving in here. Babe, I left the army.”

“Youwhat?”A slap to my shoulder accompanied her exclamation. “Since when?”

“My enlistment’s up next month, and I won’t be resigning. In fact, I met with Ty before coming here and I’m officially signed on for a position on his team.”

Hallie’s eyes flared wider. “Claire’s Ty?”

I grinned smugly. “Yep. I love my job on the SRT, but for some reason, I love you more.” Hallie rolled her eyes as I continued. “You know that random phone call I got a couple of weeks after we got back from Cape Town? That was Ty offering me a job. I sat on the offer for a few weeks, then rang him back to say count me in.”

Recollection shone in her expression. “I knewyou were keeping something from me! You were all weird after my shower.”

“I was cool as a fucking cucumber, babe.”

She scoffed, then sobered. “Wait, wait, wait… So, when do we move in here?”

I pulled her closer and kissed her. “Anytime we want. It’s ours as of now.”

“Avery…” she breathed out. “This is crazy. We barely went three months without driving a stake into each other, how do you expect the next fifty years to go?”

“Like the wildest rodeo,” I drawled.

She snickered. “Ain’t that right.”

A wicked little smile then made her eyes twinkle. She untangled herself from my arms and flicked the apartment door closed, then stripped her shirt off and tossed it aside. Sin danced in her pretty hazel gaze as she sank her teeth into her lower lip suggestively.

“So, which room first?”

Arousal low in my abdomen immediately pulsed to life. My voice came out gritty and I lowered my chin as I stalked toward her.

“Get on the counter, Hellcat. I had my final meal in my old home, and now I want my first meal in my new home.”

“Dinner for two?” She arched one eyebrow as I lifted her onto the kitchen counter and gripped the waistband of her jeans.

“And dessert. Now, booty up and lay back. I’ve got a smorgasbord waiting, and I intend to make a complete pig of myself.”

The End!

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