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“They are. It’s all up in the air.”
“Oh,” I mumbled to his chest in the dark.
“Sorry,” he said. “That’s past tense. Itwasup in the air.” He started to draw randomly on the small of my back. “Recently, I decided I’m staying in Phoenix.”
“Oh!” I chirped.
He laughed softly again before he shared, “Shirleen really likes it down here. It’s not decided, but I see that happening, where I didn’t really before. Not only because of Moses, and Roam, and Moses’s daughters, but because of the Rock Chicks. But now she knows how easy it is to get here, less than a two-hour flight. So I can see that happening.”
“I’d love that for you. I was in the midst of a drama at the time, but she’s sweet with you. In a way I think only Shirleen can be sweet.”
“Yeah,” he muttered.
“Even if it’s just boxes, can I still see your pad?” I asked, because I was curious about the place he’d chosen to spend his time not working, regardless that it was temporary.
“Sure, baby, but you missed a part.”
“What?”
“I want to own.”
Oh man.
I knew what he was saying.
I pressed my lips together.
“It’s not gonna happen tomorrow,” he said. “But I need to put it in your head. Because this place is not big enough for the two of us.”
“They have two-bedroom units at the Oasis,” I told him.
Another quiet laugh, then he found my lips in the dark and whispered, “We’ll see. Now, go to sleep, Rachel.”
“Okay, but just so you know, in the morning, we can’t have headboard-banging sex. Rhea next door heard us this morning, and she works late at a biker bar.”
“Got it.”
“And also, I have a very small account that’s going to be my down payment in about fifty years when I buy a house. In other words, eventually, I want to own too.”
I felt his body relax against mine on his, “Right.”
“Okay, ’night, honey.”
His goodnight was to touch his mouth to mine again.
I’d take it.
And I did.
Carrying it right to dreamland.
TWENTY-ONE
PHONE TREE
The bed moved when Cap got out of it.
Since he took my pillow with him—namely, his chest—I grabbed his and wrapped my arms around it to take his place until he got back.
