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Lincoln:Can’t wait, love. I’m counting down the seconds.
I putmy phone away and try to focus on work. My assistants have been cuddling the puppies all morning and they just helped me feed them and put them down. They’re all in their pool now sleeping. I have to admit, I wasn’t that excited about taking care of eight puppies, but they’ve grown on me.
Bryson walks in and sits down across from my desk. He raises his eyebrows at me when he sees the puppies. I forgot he was out on surveillance so he didn’t know that they were here.
“Long story.” I say.
“Adeline?”
Ok, maybe not that long of a story. Bryson knows me too well and he knows how I feel about Adeline. He’s been helping me with keeping an eye on her. He’s my best friend and the only person I feel comfortable letting near my girl.
“Whatcha got for me?” I ask, changing the subject.
He hands me some papers and I scan through them. It’s a bunch of apartment listings and some ads from guys looking for roommates. I look up confused.
“Adeline has been looking at them. Should I start vetting the roommates?”
My fist curls around the papers, crumbling them in my hand.
“No.”
He smirks at me as he stands and leaves my office. Bastard knew I wasn’t going to let her leave.
I’ll need to put a stop to this. No way is my girl living with some other guy. She’s definitely not living in one of these apartments. They’re all run down or in sketchy neighborhoods. I pull my phone back out, shooting off another text to her.
Lincoln:Why are you looking for new apartments?
Adeline:How do you know that I am?
Lincoln:Told you, love, I pay attention to you.
Adeline:I figure that Aspen and the guys are going to want their space once they get back.
Lincoln:You could move in with me.
She doesn’t answerand I know that she won’t.
Lincoln:Promise you won’t leave me before the puppies are old enough to be adopted?
Adeline:I promise.
I settle backin my chair, running my fingers through my hair. One month. That gives me one month to get her to fall in love with me, to agree to marry me and spend the rest of our lives together.
Shouldn’t be that hard, right?
CHAPTER 13
Adeline
Three Weeks Later…
Lincoln comes up behind me,leaving a noisy kiss on my cheek. He must have just gotten back from taking the puppies outside. We’ve been slowly starting to potty train them and every morning Lincoln takes them all out while I make us breakfast. I laugh as I finish stirring my hot chocolate and join him at the kitchen table.
The table just got here a couple of days ago. We went around and ordered furniture for most of the house the first week I was here and they have slowly been delivered. Now the house is almost completely furnished. The only rooms that aren’t done are the guest rooms. Lincoln said that he wasn’t sure what he was going to use the rooms for. He was talking about making one of them a gym and kept putting off finding furniture for them. I think that he just said that because he wanted me to sleep in his room with him. By the time the guest beds would have arrived, I would be getting ready to leave so I didn’t push too hard.
I’d never admit it to him but I love falling asleep with him every night. The night time feedings have gone down and now I get to spend the whole uninterrupted night wrapped in his arms. The first week of us sharing the bed, we would fall asleep on separate sides but we always woke up wrapped around each other. By the second week, Lincoln just said screw it and pulled me into him. I’ve gotten so used to sleeping like this, that I’m not sure I’ll be able to sleep without him molded to me. I can feel the heat from his naked chest through my thin sleep shirt, his bare legs tangled with mine, and the weight of his arm where it wraps around my waist. It’s all comforting to me.
It’s also a huge turn on. I have a hard time trying to hide my pebbled nipples from him and sometimes I wonder if he can tell how wet he makes me. Everything this man does is a turn on for me. His handsome face and the way his hair hangs over his forehead. His piercing green eyes and the way they always seem to be trained on me. Feeling his ripped body pressed up against me every night. All of it gets me so hot.
