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“Well, I want Aria and I to live together, but she said we should wait a while longer,” he sighed.
What the fuck?
No. No fucking way he was taking her away from me!
I just got her back. We finally have a chance to be a family. To live our lives without danger and other people trying to hurt and separate us.
No. I was not letting him take her away.
I clenched my fists and stared at him sternly. “She is not living with you.”
His eyes snapped to me. “Why?”
“I just got her back,” I said through my teeth. “I haven’t had a chance to live with her without somebody trying to take her away from me. We haven’t had a chance to fight over stupid sibling stuff. I want that. I want us to live together like we were supposed to our whole lives.”
He narrowed his eyes at me and clenched his jaw. “But she is my mate.”
“She is,” I nodded stiffly. “And you can always come over. You can sleep there on the weekends. But you are not taking her away from me. Not yet.”
Nick was fuming. His eyes were flickering from brown to black. I wasn’t afraid of him. I was not changing my mind, no matter what he said or did.
“Gabriel is right, Nick,” Aria’s voice interrupted our stare-down. “I want those things he described. You and I have our whole lives ahead of us. I want to spend some time with my brother.”
Aria’s POV
Nick’s eyes snapped to me. He was angry. I sighed internally. He would have to find a way to deal with it. It’s not like I was leaving him and moving halfway across the world. He lived right next door. He will be at our house all the time, anyway.
“Aria…” he started saying sternly, but I interrupted him.
“Nick, please,” I said, walking toward them. “I love you. You are my mate, and I want us to live together. Just not right now. I just found my brother. I want to spend some time with him and get to know him. Since we met, all we've done is prepare for the fight and deal with some difficult situations. I want to live with him without all of that.”
Nick grabbed my arm and pulled me to sit on his lap. He buried his nose in my neck and took a deep breath.
I looked at Gabriel, who was looking at Nick with a pissed off expression on his face. I rolled my eyes at him.
“You are going to be in our house all the time, anyway,” Gabriel sighed after a few minutes of silence.
I chuckled. “Gabe is right. You live right next door.”
Nick whined, and his grip on me tightened. I chuckled, and Gabriel rolled his eyes.
“Come on, Nick,” I said as I ran my fingers through his hair.
He raised his head and looked at me. “Fine. But I get to be there as much as I want.”
“Within reason,” Gabriel said.
Nick narrowed his eyes at him. “Do you want me to take her away? Because I will. She is mine.”
Gabriel’s fist clenched. “You wouldn’t dare.”
“Try me,” Nick growled.
“Okay, enough,” I said, raising my hands. “Gabriel, don't push it. It is hard enough for him as it is. He agreed, even though he didn’t have to. I am his mate. He marked me, and it is only natural that we would want to be together all the time.”
Gabriel narrowed his eyes at Nick, who had a huge grin on his face.
“Wipe that smug smile off of your face, Nick,” I sighed. “You can be there as much as you want, but you still have to let us have family time. Just Gabriel and me. Understand?”
