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He kissed my forehead and got off the bed. He turned the lights off and came back. He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me to his chest.

“Do you know that Jake and Cassie will be moving to Moon City?” I said with a sleepy voice.

I felt him tense underneath me. “Really? Why?”

“They want to be closer to me,” I explained.

I was so excited when Cassie told me. She wants to go to university as well. I was really glad that they decided to move. I was not ready to say goodbye to them.

“That is really great, baby,” Nick said as he kissed the top of my head.

“It is,” I mumbled with a small smile on my face.

“Sleep, love,” Nick said and started running his fingers through my hair.

I got comfortable and closed my eyes.

CHAPTER EIGHTY – Home

Gabriel’s POV

It’s been a few days since the battle.

Patricia, Mike, and Jack went to Victor’s headquarters to end the inquisition. They should come back in a few days. Mike had been keeping me updated. Patricia didn’t try to take Victor’s position. For now. They were shutting his whole operation down. It wasn’t going as smoothly as we had hoped it would, but they were making progress. They were having trouble with some of Victor’s most loyal followers. They didn’t believe he was dead, and they wanted to continue with the inquisition.

I trusted that Mike, Jack, and Patricia would be able to deal with them.

The rest of us were packing to go home tomorrow. We stayed so Aria could take care of Zack. And she did an amazing job. Zack was up on his feet, and he was doing well. He got tired easily and he still spends most of his time in bed, but his wound healed miraculously well, and his fever was completely gone.

Things around here were a little bit tense.

There was something going on between Blake and Cassie. Ever since Zack was injured, Cassie hadn’t left his side. Blake was jealous, and they had been fighting a lot. Aria, Annie, and Cassie were always in Annie’s room, talking and comforting Cassie. I didn’t ask Aria anything, but I guess that the relationship between Blake and Cassie was nearing its end.

Nick was back to hating Jake. The news about them moving to Moon City with us didn’t help. Nick thought that Jake was moving so he could continue to pursue Aria. Nick hadn’t told Aria anything, so the only one he was complaining to was me. And I was having a hard time listening to him and trying to convince him that he was wrong. I really thought Jake had moved on. He loved Aria, that much was obvious. But I think he realized that they would never be more than friends, or family, as they say. He just wanted to be a part of her life. Nick disagrees, of course. He was sure that Jake was a threat. He has been so possessive of Aria in the past few days. It was getting hard to watch, and I could tell that Aria was getting annoyed. He barely left her alone, and when they were together, he had to make sure that he was touching her somehow. He told her it was because Nate was still on edge from the fight, but I think she was on to him. It was hard to miss the way he glared at Jake.

“I am tired, man,” Nick growled, placing his hands on his head.

I sighed. “You have to stop doing this to yourself, Nick. He is not after her. He is not taking her away from you. She is yours.”

“I don’t know why I am having such a hard time believing that,” he whined.

“Do you not trust her?” I asked, raising my eyebrows at him.

He removed his hands from his face and looked at me, slightly panicked. “No! I trust her. I know she would never hurt me. I don’t trust Jacob.”

I nodded. “I didn’t trust him in the beginning either. But I do now.”

“Why?” Nick asked and ran his hand through his hair. “What’s changed?”

“I don’t know,” I shrugged. “I talked to him a few times. He is a good man. He loves her, that much is obvious. But I think that he realized that they would never be more than friends. He looks at her differently.”

“What do you mean?” he asked, looking at me.

“Well, in the beginning, he looked at her and there was lust,” I said. “You could tell that he wanted more. Now, when he looks at her, there is only love. No lust,”

“That doesn’t make me feel any better,” Nick growled.

I smirked. “Do you really think that you are the only one who loves her? That you should be the only one who loves her?”

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