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I tighten my hold on her, reaching down to grab her towel and bag. "I love you."
"Keep saying things like that, and my ego might get too big,” she murmured. “Can you put up with that sort of shit from me?" She peeked through her eyelashes at me.
I sighed, swatting at her ass. “You’re already so annoying and all..."
Chloe huffed. "Maybe I should be dating Felix. You know he has a soft spot for meeee–” she shrieked as I picked her up, swinging her around and captured her mouth in a rough kiss.
“Try it, Duke.”
"You're intolerable." Chloe tossed her hair, but her hands slid down my shirt.
"Getting cocky there."
“I started that way.”
"Smile, kids," Marjorie shouted down from the umpire's chair, swivelling to take a photo of our conversation, still holding a conversation with whoever was on the other end of the line.
Chloe gave her thumbs up, while I flicked her the bird.
Marjorie cracked up. “Perfect," she stated. "Going on the socials page."
I grabbed the rest of her kit, and tossed it over my shoulder with my own bag as I towed her out of the arena. "There’s something I wanted to talk to you about."
"What?" She pulled back from me in the car park. "Are you being a nosy stalker again?" She looked uncertain and too beautiful, and I stopped to kiss her once more.
"Nick–"
“Yeah?” I came up for air, lost in her eyes.
"You were going to tell me something good."
"Oh. Yes. I was."
Chloe blinked up at me patiently. "I think you were being serious, so...remember?" she prompted me.
"Deadly." I kissed her nose, just to draw the suspense out. "It was getting noisy back at the frat house so I got a place. For, you know, us. It’s private and out of the way. It's got four bedrooms. In case there was someone else we wanted to move in?"
I let the proposal hang in the air while she stared at me. Just as I thought I was going to have to poke her or rescind the offer altogether, she let out a shivery breath.
"Really?” Her eyes sparkled island blue. “Is it close?"
I raised both eyebrows. “You're agreeing that easily to live with me?"
She snorted. "I've been living in your room for months, Nick. How is this any different?"
"Fair enough." I pulled her close, needing the reassurance. “Are you sure?”
"Yes. So, friends–"
"Barclay’s already claimed one bed."
"Did he?" She smiled, apparently delighted with our first new housemate. "Good, because he was the first person I thought of. Wait, he doesn't want to live in the dorm room on his own?"
I grimaced. "There were tensions between him and Beau. I offered, he accepted.”
I didn't tell her the story that wasn’t mine. He had his own family issues that crossed oceans, and he didn’t need Bennet breathing down his neck while he sorted his shit out. Plus, it provided him with a safe haven, like it did for me from my father, and hopefully Chloe from the press.
"So...can I see it tomorrow?" She looked up at me with those breathtaking eyes.
