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“I missed you today,” I murmur. “Come back to bed if you won’t let me fuck you here.”
She slaps my back. “So romantic!”
I pull her head away and hold her face. “Come to bed and make sweet, beautiful love with me.” We both snort with laughter and she kisses me again.
I missed this girl so fucking much.
“Later.” Tegan nips my ear.
“So, what’s happening with Tina? Tell me.”
Tegan switches her attention to the water, squeezing bubbles between her fingers. “She offered me a job.”
“Wow! That’s awesome!” Tegan doesn’t smile. “Isn’t it? You get to stay in London. With me.”
“Offered me a job in New York.”
I loosen my grip on her waist. “What?”
“Tina wants me to go to the States for a few weeks, see how I go and if everything works out, the company might take me on over there.”
Her words slam me in the chest; I don’t want to hear the answer to my next question. “In the States? That was bloody sudden! Are you going?”
Finally, Tegan turns her big brown eyes to mine. “Maybe.”
“Maybe,” I repeat. Tegan says something else, but I don’t hear. We’ve spoken about trying to make a go of things; solidify what we have before my world changes permanently. Now this. “Right.”
I grab a towel from the shelf above the bath and stand.
Tegan looks up, mouth parting. “What’s wrong?”
I yank the towel around my waist and step out of the bath. “What the hell do you think is wrong?”
“I haven’t made a final decision, Jax, I —”
“But you’re thinking about going, aren’t you? What about us?”
“That’s why I haven’t made the final decision!”
Water drips to the floor, down my legs as the jealous disappointment runs through my body. “Why now?”
“Not now. Soon. In a few weeks.”
“I don’t fucking believe this!” I storm out of the bathroom and run my fingers through my damp fringe.
“Jax!”
By the time she appears, covered in a towel and bubbles sliding down her legs, I’m half dressed, t-shirt in hand. Tegan approaches and touches my face. “Don’t be like this.”
“I can’t believe you’d decide something as big without talking to me.”
“I haven’t decided anything! Iamtalking to you!”
“Sounds like the decision is made.” I pull my t-shirt on. “Thanks a lot.”
Tegan sinks onto the bed, where the sheets remain scrunched from our afternoon wrapped in each other. “Wow.”
“I told you I wanted us! Don’t you want this?”
