Page 113 of Sky’s Edge

“I don’t know why it would. Except you’re Catla Truelock and get annoyed pretty easily.”

Don’t rise to the bait, Catla!

“Okay. Hit me with it.”

“We come out at the engagement party.”

This confused me. “That was already the plan.”

“And nobody gets shit from us until then. We spring it on them. In the meantime, if you can come up to Sky’s Edge on the weekends, you do. If you can’t, I’ll rearrange things so I can come down. And the time we have is just ours.”

I hated that I loved this plan.

“But this weekend, I’m here,” he carried on. “And next weekend, I am too, because Zyr and Manny want to come down.”

I did not hate at all that I loved that more.

“Seriously?” I breathed.

His hands stopped roaming so he could wrap his arms around me.

“Seriously.”

Speaking of…

“Where’s Hurley?”

“My beings are looking after him.”

“Where?”

“At the Sky’s Edge embassy.”

“Why didn’t you bring him with you here?”

“Because I didn’t want to use him as a prop. I wanted this to be you and me without any manipulations or making you think I was using him as a trick.”

That sucked because it was mega.

“So let’s get into that,” he said.

“You comming your staff to have them send over Hurley?”

No grin this time, but he gave me a smile.

“He was wondering where you went,” he told me.

“And I was wondering where you kept him when we were at Berg Castle.”

His lips turned down. “Where I kept him?”

“I didn’t see him the whole time I was there.”

“Ah,” he said. “That’s because he has a doggie door. Precisely, five of them. He’s free to roam, inside and on the grounds. And he does that a lot. He slept beside me, like he usually does. You were just asleep when we returned to you that first night.” His eyes got soft. “And due to me acting like an ass, you weren’t with us the second night.”

“Oh,” I mumbled.

“Now that’s out of the way, let’s tackle the rest.”