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I pull her out and drag her down the hallway, away from our spectators.
“Wait, this isn’t my floor.”
“No, but it’s mine, and I want to grab my stuff before you distract me too much.”
“Okay.”
She stands in the doorway while I collect up everything I brought with me and stuff it none too carefully into my bag before turning my back on the room and gathering her up into my arms and allowing the door to close behind us.
“Where are you?”
“Up. Come on.”
Knowing that I’m not going to be able to spend any more time in an elevator with her without doing something I’ll regret, or that others won’t want to see, I opt for the stairs.
“Your room is on the top floor?” I ask once we’ve climbed way more flights than I was expecting.
“I told you I had a surprise. Only the best for the state champion.” She winks, tapping the keycard to the little pad and pushing inside her room. Only, it’s not a room. It’s an entire fucking suite.
“Whoa,” I breathe, walking into the room and dropping my bag to the floor. “I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
“Impressive, right?”
“Yeah, but how? You don’t have…” She steps up to me, her hands brushing around my sides and coming to rest on my stomach.
“I had some help from someone else who wanted you to enjoy yourself.”
“Oh?” I ask, spinning in her arms so that I can look at her.
“Yeah, although I think my intentions for the room were probably different to his.”
“Oh yeah? Tell me more,” I demand, walking her backward until she hits the wall.
“I thought that we’d have some celebrating to do.”
“You didn’t know we’d win.”
“I was optimistic, but that wasn’t what I meant.”
“No?”
“I’m…” She swallows nervously.
“Dove?”
“I’m done fighting, Cole.” My fingers wrap around the back of her neck, my thumb brushing over her jaw. “I miss you so much. I need you. I need us. Can we—”
I don’t let her finish her question. Instead I answer it with my lips against hers as I press her farther back into the wall so she can feel just how on board I am with everything she didn’t get to say.
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Hadley
Cole touches me like I’m fragile glass, ghosting his fingers over my jaw as if he’s scared I might disappear at any second.
“It’s okay,” I whisper. “I’m right here, and I’m not going anywhere.”
His hips pin my body against the wall, letting me feel his need for me, for this, but he doesn’t kiss me.
