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Suddenly, the nerves came back. “Well, I was thinking about getting an apartment.”

“That’s cool. I’ve looked in the area and they’re stupidly expensive.”

“That’s why you split it with other people. A few, preferably. And if two of those people share a room, it’s even better.”

He lifted his head, staring down at me with something that I couldn’t read. That just made it worse, especially after sex like that.

“If this backfires…” I took a deep breath and brushed my thumb along his cheekbone. “When me and West figure out the apartment thing, will you move in?”

“No.”

Damnit.

“When you, me, and West figure out the apartment thing, I’ll move in.” He followed it up with a grin that made my heart beat faster.

Arching up, I bit down on the split part of his lip. He made a disgruntled sound and smacked at my face.

“Give me a real answer,” I insisted.

“It’s pretty early to do something like that.”

I raised a single brow. “What you just said doesn’t matter to me one bit.”

“Alright. I’ll move in, but what happens if we break up?”

“Then you get the couch, obviously.”

“What if I wanted to bring someone home?”

My eyes narrowed. When I flipped him onto his back, he laughed. It was light and so different from when I’d first met him. Sen had changed. He was still changing. In a year from now, the man I was looking at would just be a piece of our past. I wanted to know every version of him that would exist.

Chapter 37

Sen

I had to admit that it was a little weird meeting Kai’s dad, Eli. He was kind and reminded me so much of him, but I knew that I would never see as much of him as I wanted to. Parts of him were gradually going missing and only existed in other people’s memories now. At least they had a lot of good ones. Or maybe that made it harder.

Now, Eli sat on the couch with a soft smile on his face while Kai and West bickered over something I’d tuned out of a while ago.

My mind had been wandering the entire week I’d been here. As much as I hated it, I wondered what my parents were doing, if they were enjoying Christmas. And the fact that I wanted to call them made me feel sick inside. I wondered if they were having as hard of a time as I was. Their son poured his heart out and they stomped on it. How could a parent treat their child, the person they were supposed to love unconditionally, with such cruelty?

Arms came around me from behind and I smelled his familiar juniper scent. “Hey. You look lost in your head.”

“I’m okay,” I assured him.

“You don’t have to put on a brave face for me, but if that’s what you wanna do, that’s okay too.”

I breathed a laugh and met Savannah’s eyes. “Did you make him like this or was he just born perfect?”

She looked at Kai with all the fondness in the world. “Mostly his dad, if I’m being honest.”

Eli was staring off into the distance. There’d been moments of clarity while I’d been here, but there were even more like this.

“Here.”

Kai dropped a wrapped rectangle into my lap, clipping my dick and making me elbow him. He chuckled and moved to my side to watch me open it. I felt a little awkward as I tried to rip the paper.

“How much tape is on this thing?”

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