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He chuckles. “As long as they’re happy tears, I won’t pull this truck over.”
“They’re happy. I promise.”
We share a smile at a red light before he has to continue driving.
We pull along the curb by The Nest, and I notice there’s a new sign for Peeper’s Alley, with a “Grand Re-Opening Tonight” banner under it.
“Oh, it looks so good.” I step out of the truck as soon as it stops.
“And now I lost you to Ruby,” he grumbles right before I shut the door.
I walk toward the bar.
“Don’t worry, sis, we got all your shit!” Conor shouts.
I wave, opening the door to the bar that might have been mine at one point. There are new wooden floors, and the tables are now bar-height with new stools. Everything in here is shiny and new.
“It looks amazing,” I say to the empty room.
Ruby comes out from the back. “Aren’t you supposed to be driving into the sunset or some shit?”
I break the distance, my hand running along the new vinyl stools that no longer have any tears in them. “Are you excited?”
“To kick out girls trying to get to the guys? No.”
I laugh and smile, knowing she really is happy. “Well, I can’t wait to come down tonight.”
“You live a sad life.”
“I know.”
That earns the tiniest rise at the corner of her lips. “Now go. I’m busy.” She shoos me out with her hands.
I point at a neon sign for a seltzer company. “Serving seltzers now?”
“Mind your business.” She walks toward me, still waving at me to leave.
“Okay. I’m going, but I’ll see you tonight.”
“Uh-huh,” she says.
I walk out of the bar, and all the guys have a box in their hands, like a row of ants going toward the security gate that Bodhi is holding open.
After they move me in, Rowan’s second bedroom is filled with my things. Everything but my clothes and toiletries.
“Happy?” Rowan asks me.
“So happy.”
“Good.” He kisses my forehead. “Now come to bed with me. We need to christen our new place.”
“I think we’ve done that a couple times over already.”
He falls down onto the bed, his body bouncing off the mattress. “Didn’t you hear? We have to do it, like, five times on every surface for it to be considered christened.”
I place my knee on the bed, and he grabs my hips, rolling me over onto my back.
“Well, in that case…”
