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Cato and Levee were still the guys I’d known. Cato was brave and fearless. Levee was fun and light. But time had calmed them down a bit, matured the things out of them that may have annoyed me back in the day.

Donovan was a bit more reserved and serious with a good head for numbers and business.

Alaric was warm and a bit flirtatious, which I chalked up to his years dancing and flirting for tips.

As for the others, the “OG members,” as the others called them, I found Huck laid-back with a sort of fatherly way of interacting with the rest of the guys. Che was sweet and considerate. I actually walked out one morning to find he’d changed the oil in my car and topped off all the fluids. McCoy was a bit guarded at first, but was slowly coming around. And Remy was a man completely in love with his woman and his animals.

Including Mackie, the blue and gold macaw who liked to cuss out some guy named Benny and steal food whenever someone was nearby.

For me, someone who’d never been allowed to have a pet, I found myself a little bit obsessed with that bird. And even the tortoise who pretty much didn’t even know I existed unless I was the one bringing him his greens.

But Eddie?

Yeah, Eddie was my favorite part of Seeley’s world… aside from Seeley himself.

He was light and fun and devoted. He was like the glue that held the club together. With his food he made with love. With his mild nagging when someone didn’t clean up or come to dinner on time.

Which was why he was one of the first things on my mind after I got that blasted cast cut off finally.

I owed him a pillow fight.

Creeping down the hall, I found the door to the room he crashed in more than he ever stayed at his own place, listened for a second to make sure he had no company, then threw open the door, letting it crack against the wall to wake him up.

Before he could even knife up in bed, I was tossing a pillow at him.

“It is time to make that dream of yours a reality,” I said, charging into the room, and whacking him before he could even grab his own pillow.

It wasn’t long until our fight was spilling into the halls, waking up everyone else who came to their doors to watch and place bets on who was going to win.

Both of us, that was who.

Both of us won.

Eddie had a dream fulfilled.

And I got to let my inner child out to play for a while.

Then, when all of that was done, I got to crawl up on the chest of the man I loved and go to sleep.

Life was good.

Seeley - 6 months

I can’t begin to describe what it was like to watch Ama become a part of my family.

Little by little, day by day, I could see months and years of stress evaporating, the weight slipping from her shoulders.

Even as a little girl, she’d been strapped with so much responsibility. She’d never gotten a chance to know peace and freedom and safety and love.

I’d like to think that I’d given her a small bit of that when we were teens, especially.

But then I knew she went away to college, more alone than she’d ever been in life, all the while strapped with so much damn responsibility that I wasn’t sure how she’d made it through.

After that, the underfunded and poorly run clinic had become her whole life too.

There was just never a sense of self outside of her work, outside of her purpose.

In a way, those things that Teddy said to me all those months ago applied to Ama as well. About how her worth wasn’t tied up in how much she could do for others.

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