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Chapter Thirty-Seven
Elijah
“About this weekend…” I let my words drift off as Hadley bent over the crib and placed Eli inside. It was going on ten, and Lucy was already asleep by the time I got there. I hadn’t slept at my place since they spent the night and didn’t plan to unless they were with me.
“What about it?” Hadley mumbled as she peered down at Eli with the same vibrant lovesick expression. The same one I fell prey to over the months of watching her give that look so freely to her kids.
“I’ve got to head down to my other parlor, the one in Jeffrey.” I scratched the stubble on my jaw as she sat up and turned toward me slowly. “Would you guys want to go with me?”
“Would that mean us staying in a hotel all day while you did whatever it is at the shop?” She scrunched up her nose, clearly not liking the idea of being stuck in a room. I never planned it being that way, anyway.
“No. You guys could come with me to the shop. I might have mentioned you a few times to the employees. They’re eager to meet all of you.”
“Wouldn’t it be weird?”
“Why would it be weird?”
She snorted. “Do you really think I didn’t notice the sign at your shop here? ‘Unsupervised offspring will be pawned’.”
I grinned and she rolled her eyes. I’d forgotten about that sign.
“I don’t think it’d be a great idea to bring a five-month-old and a four-year-old to sit around all day while you—what is it you’re doing?”
“Selling it.”
Her eyes widened. “Really? What for?”
“I don’t have the need for it unless you’d want to move down that way later on?” She gawked at me. “I’d take that as a no. I couldn’t see you living more than an hour away from your parents, and Ma would kill me if I left after just moving back.”
Tucking loose blonde strands behind her ear, Hadley walked over and sat beside me, but I tugged her onto my lap instead. She wrapped her arms around my neck and smiled. “Why does where I want to go mess with your wants?”
“I think you already know.” I tightened my grip on her thigh.
“I do want to move out of this apartment sooner rather than later,” she mumbled as I pressed my lips along the side of her neck.
“Why are we staying here every night when I have a home you could already make yours?”
She sighed pleasantly as I bit into her collarbone lightly, slipping my hand beneath her shirt and lifted her bra up so that I could pinch her nipple. “Elijah… Could you really handle this life forever?” She brought my head down to her beautiful tits.
“Fuck, yeah,” I murmured into her shirt as I slowly pulled away from her. I lifted it up and over her head before palming her breasts.
“Then you should know that I don’t want to live here. I don’t want to live near here either. I’m so tired of these apartments,” she whispered breathlessly.
“I’ll get you out of here. We can search together. I can resale the house and while we’re waiting it can be ours.”
“Are you sure?” She pulled my head away until our gazes locked.
I kissed the inside of her hand. “I’ve never been surer of anything in my life. Haven’t you figured out what you mean to me already?”
She leaned down and kissed me feverishly until my skin tingled and burned—until it felt like I would step right out of it. That was how powerful her touch was for me.
“About the weekend, will you go with me?”
“I work on Sunday.”
“Then we’ll make it one night only and be home Saturday.”
She closed her eyes, sighing into my lips. I watched her eyelashes flutter every time I flicked my tongue over her lips. “Are you sure it’s okay for Lucy and Eli to be there?”
