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Matt snakes his arm around my waist and kisses my neck. “That’s a way to ditch each other without saying much. I think that being in the same room waiting for news was a bad idea. We all worry about her—Grandma.”
“She’s the closest thing we have to a maternal figure. The reason why she favors us is because she really tried to be a mother. Never messed with my fathers’ parenting, but she added a lot.”
Matt’s lips stretch, his dimple shows, and he sighs. “She and Grandpa James took us to Disney World. All those trips you usually take with your parents were with my grandparents.”
This family is a fairy tale I want to belong to. I never met my grandparents. My father was in foster care, and my mother… she never speaks about her family. “Your grandparents are amazing. Grandma Janine is very special.”
I turn to look at Tristan. “Should I dare to ask about your grandparents?”
He shakes his head.
“That bad, huh?”
“I’m the black sheep of the family.”
“You both can have my grandparents,” Matt offers.
I wouldn’t mind being a part of them, a Decker. I’ve come to care for both, but his grandma… I adore her. When I visit Ainsley and Gracie, sometimes Janine is there, and she talks to me about Albany.
She insists that we have to go there for Christmas so we can ice skate on the pond. Lucky for me, since this year she can’t travel because of the surgery, Mason, Matt, and Jacob are trying to find a way to recreate the pond in one of the empty lots that Matt owns.
“Since we can’t be in the waiting room, what shall we do?”
“Coffee,” Tristan mumbles.
I release a big laugh as we spot a coffee shop. The beauty of living in Seattle is that we have caffeine-induced drinks on almost every corner.
Since last Friday, I haven’t gotten much sleep, maybe a couple of hours here and there. Matt wakes pretty easily and each time he has to teach me a newlovingtechnique. That’s what he calls sex these days.
I’m not complaining, because the man knows his techniques and each time, he makes me want more and more. But my body is starting to feel the effects of those lost hours of sleep.
Matt opens the door for me, whispering in my ear as I walk by him, “Are you tired, Butterfly?” I roll my eyes and walk to the cashier, who by some miracle, is alone. “You had the night all to yourself.”
A barely legal boy with midnight hair and green eyes smiles as he greets us, saving me from having to give him an explanation of why I’m tired and how I had no sleep at all. “Welcome to Paradise Coffee. What can I get you?”
“Double shot grande Americano for my lady. A cappuccino, with an extra shot for the gentleman.” Matt points at Tristan. “An extra grande hot chocolate with extra whip for me.”
Coop pays, while Matt gives yet another bizarre name for the order and leaves a generous tip inside the jar. Placing an arm around me, we walk toward the pick-up counter.
“Now, are you going to tell me why you didn’t sleep?”
This should be easy to answer. Then why is it that my ears are buzzing with pressure and my face has heated so quickly?
Matt’s mouth kisses my temple, and it traces a line all the way down to my ear. “So, you finally solved your intimacy issues with your boyfriend?”
He winks at Cooper, who rolls his eyes and says, “Leave it to you to make this awkward.”
“Hallelujah,” he mumbles, tilting his head toward Coop. “This poor boy needed some sex. I’d expect you to be less… moody.”
I turn my body and hear the click of a camera. The simple noise makes me bury my face inside his leather jacket.
“Fuck,” he growls. “Don’t move, Butterfly. I doubt they caught you on camera, but we have a code red. Coop, you need to leave, meet us in the waiting room. Text Mason that we have a security breach.”
“I don’t want to leave her.”
“It’ll be safer, I swear,” Matt assures him.
Matt’s hand moves on top of my head before I hear him speak. “Hey, I’m at the coffee shop right across from the hospital. I’ve been recognized. Can you get me out of this one? I managed to keep my girl’s face out of the media. They didn’t see Coop with us.”
