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“What stopped you?”
“Natasha did.”
“Wait,what?”
“Before you get upset with her, she didn’t tell me to leave you alone. She simply said you knew the truth, like I did, about Lisa but you had to be the one to choose; if I loved you, I had to let you make the decision to come back to me.”
Evangeline shook her head. “Natasha is too smart for her own good sometimes.” She lay back down, curling her body into his.
Tentatively, Beau asked, “Please tell me he was the only guy and you didn’t fuck him.”
She laughed gently, her fingers trailing down his stomach. “And what if I had?”
His teeth clicked together in irritation. “Then I’d have to kill him.”
Looking into his face, she said, “I never slept with him. He turned out to be a guy who was in exactly the same place I was—he’d broken up with his girlfriend too and was struggling to move on.” She paused for dramatic effect. “And he told me to come back and apologize.”
His stormy expression lifted. “I think I like this guy.”
“You would, actually. He runsThe Nightingale.” They both fell silent. Vee was lost in her own thoughts for the future, as she was sure Beau was.
“What’s going to happen now?”
He looked down at his hardening cock. “I think we’re ready for round two,” he replied with a grin.
“Not that,” she huffed, although that idea was solid. “I mean, you live here and I live in West Hollywood. I can’t relocate down here, not after I’ve worked so hard to get the club this far.”
“I know, and I wouldn’t expect you to just up and leave.” He sucked in a breath. “There’s nothing keeping me here. I hate my job. I officially have nowhere to live now—I mean John isn’t going to kick me out, but I can’t stay here forever, can I?”
“Are you saying what I think you’re saying?”
“My mom’s house sold. I have enough cash to buy my own studio apartment close to yours…”
“Beau, I don’t think you should do that.”
He frowned. “Oh, too fast? I can just rent somewhere for a bit, I guess.”
She grinned. “Beau? I’m just fucking with you. We’ve already spent the last four years apart. I don’t want to wait any longer to be with you. You can move in with me.”
“I can move in with you?” he repeated.
“You... don’t want to?”
Framing her face in his hands, he kissed her hard and fast. “Of course I do, Vee. I love you. I want to kiss every night before bed and wake up beside you every morning.”
Smiling, she said, “That’s what I want too.”
They both turned toward the door when they heard a key sliding into the lock.
“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” said Evangeline, scrambling to find her clothes. The damn things were scattered all over the living room. She glanced at Beau who was still lying on the rug, buck-naked. “Aren’t you going to get dressed?” she hissed.
“Nah, I don’t think so.”
She shimmied into her underwear and held her shirt to her chest just as the door opened and John walked in.
“Fuck!” he yelled, his hand coming up to cover his eyes. He turned around to face the door. “Vee? Is that you? I fucking hope it is otherwise Beau is getting an ass-whooping from me.”
“It’s me, John. Just give me a second.” Pulling on her shirt and her jeans, she gave John the all clear.
