AllFreeNovel
Share Us
He tugged off his shirt and cargo pants before tossing them in the laundry basket. Unfortunately, he kept his knit boxers on before climbing into bed beside Autumn. He killed the light, then pulled her into his arms.
“Now, let’s get some sleep.”
She traced circles on his chest, but he took hold of her fingers.
“Nope. No sex as per your doctor.”
“You suck.”
“I love you too.”
She said nothing to that because it made her want to laugh. Seth apparently wasn’t going to let it go, and he had promised just to deal with each day as it came.
A woman couldn’t ask for more than that…at least, she couldn’t.
“Seth?”
“Hmm?”
“You promise you won’t start discussing weddings and babies tomorrow?”
“The only wedding I will discuss is Tamilya and Marcus’s wedding. The only babies are the TFH second generation, as they’ve started to call them. As for us, I think we don’t worry about that and go to that Filipino restaurant in Kapolei you want to try out.”
“Julie’z?”
“Yeah. You seemed to think that would be good.”
She also made him watch a bunch of Felix and Amanda videos tonight.
“Don’t you have to go to work?”
“Nope. Took off for a week. Rami will head up the team, which is good because he needs the experience of stepping in. They’ll call me in if they need me.”
She could hear the sleepiness in his voice, so she let go of her worries for now. He promised to go slow, and he promised her food.
For now, that was enough.
epilogue
A Few Months Later
Autumn rolled her shoulders,trying to settle her nerves. There was no reason to freak out because she was moving in with Seth. Or they were moving in together would be a better way to put it.
She glanced around the apartment where she’d lived for a couple of years. It was small and looked more like a terrorist cell safe house in a Jakob Wulf movie.
The walls were bare now. All of Autumn’s research had been handed over to the FBI and other agencies that had asked. She thought she would have a hard time letting go. But it had been easy. Probably because Joseph was in prison. All his assets had been frozen, so he was relying on donations and a public defender. It didn’t matter if Joseph could hire the world’s best criminal attorney. The mountain of evidence she had handed over was enough to keep him in prison for life. Other countries also wanted their chance to prosecute him. Joseph would spend the rest of his life in court.
Still, this was where she’d lived for so long it was hard to let go of it. It was crappy, with thin walls, and loud as hell all nightlong. The tenants in that building worked all kinds of hours. She was going to miss this place a little bit. And then there was the fear of this big life step.
Seth and Autumn had only been dating for three months. Hell, they had never really dated. They just fell together, and she hadn’t returned to her apartment for anything other than a change of clothes. What if he regretted this and they were stuck together? She was a lot to take. Panic rose up, then sunk down into her gut.
What if she couldn’t make this work because she was broken?
Just as she felt a meltdown approaching, arms slid around her stomach, then pulled her back against a hard body.
“Is everything packed up?” Seth murmured in her ear. His heat warmed her back, and that spicy scent she had always associated with him surrounded her.
“Yeah.”
