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“Right,” he says with a grin. “Oh man, there are so many unread books there’s actually no room for more.”
“There’s always room for more. You might just… have to double stack them. If you flip them on their side, you can fit more in,” I assure him.
“Right,” he says as he sets to work trying to find adequate room for my new hoard before watching me pick up a different book to read. “Hold on. You had to have all of these new books to read, yet… you’re going to read one you already read?”
“August… I feel like you don’t understand.”
His eyebrow arches as he watches me. “You’re probably right. I’m not quite sure I do.”
“You will learn. You are merely in a cocoon at this point, August. Soon you will bust out as a motherfucking beautiful butterfly who will fuck up anyone who disrupts our reading time.”
“Ah, I see. Makes total sense,” he says. “What if I put some of these books that don’t fit in a box?”
“Don’t you fucking dare. I have toseethem, August. I have tofeelthem. I have to stroke them.”
August slowly sets one in a cardboard box that had brought more books to me just this morning.
I gasp. “Don’t you dare.”
“They could fit right under our bed.”
I gasp again. “August… I thought youlovedme. Zacia… I know you’re used to two daddies but… but I have to murder your other father.”
“You’re not even going to break up, you’re going straight to murder?” August asks, sounding weirdly disbelieving.
“I don’t want anyone else to ever have you,obviously.”
He shakes his head as he retrieves the books and Tetrises them onto the shelf. “Do you forgive me?”
“Maybe.”
“Good.”
While I do love my family, they’ve always had a very hands-off approach. It seemed like we only ever did something together when they needed me for something ridiculous. Much of my life was spent alone in the house with my books while occasionally being dragged off to some half-price supervillain bullshit. Lost in my fictional worlds, I thought I had everything I wanted, but I realize now how incredibly lonely I was. How I did so much bullshit just for some kind of approval or attention. And with August, I don’t have to do any of that. I don’t have to feel like that.
Having him here has made me happier than I ever thought I could possibly be.
I glance over as he tries to slyly fit the remaining book that he can’t seem to find a place for on the read bookshelf.
“Don’t you dare, you sexy beast,” I shout as I grab the book before he can do such a disgusting deed.
August laughs as he hooks me with his arm and pulls me in to kiss me. “Oh no. What are you going to do now?”
“Clearly, someone needs a time out. And I will enforce that by making you clean Zacia’s litter box.”
“Such a threat!” he teases as I reach up and kiss him again as I sink into him.
How did I ever snag someone like him?
And I didn’t even have to use my telekinesis to make him stay!
CHAPTERTWO
LANDON
The moment we walk into the broadcasting station, Valerie storms up to us. “Landon, aword.”
“Sure, one word,” I say.
