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“I mean, are you sure?” he pressed, still looking worried. “We’ve been dating less than two months, and we’re already living together, spending Thanksgiving together, plus making our two sets of parents meet each other. You don’t think they’ll worry that we’re rushing anything?”
“Hey, we’re not announcing that we’re pregnant or getting married or anything like that. So yeah…no, not rushing.”
“But…” he countered uneasily.
“Trust me,” I reassured, quieting him by placing my hand over his. “We’ll be fine. And besides, the only reason our two parents are meeting is because both sets offered to comeherefor Thanksgiving. So it’s just as well that they meet since we’re in this for the long haul…” Glancing at him, I lifted my eyebrows. “Right?”
Finally, his eyes changed intensity from worried to satisfied. “Yes, ma’am, we are.”
As soon as he tangled his fingers with mine, I added, “Besides, I’m meetingyourparents for the first time, too. DoIneed to get a new outfit?”
He huffed out a harsh laugh. “Absolutely not. You tracked down their daughter’s murderer. They already think you hung the moon.”
“Well…” I flushed sheepishly and rolled my eyes. “That was more of agroupeffort, and besides, you saved my life from a murderer, so…”
“So nothing,” he insisted as he turned down a side street and then pulled into the tight parking spot behind his aunt’s brownstone. After killing the engine, he turned to face me. “Zweifel would still be out there and free, hurting people, if you hadn’t learned the name Josh or that he was a professor at Haverick. He’s been caught and put behind bars because ofyou.”
Okay, when he worded itthatway…
“That was kind of awesome of me, wasn’t it?”
“Mind-blowing,” he agreed as he smoothed a hand down the side of my arm.
I grinned at him, only to glance toward the back door and heave out a long breath. “It feels weird being back here.”
“You don’t have to go in,” he started quickly.
But I lifted my hand. “No… No, I want to. I… Well, I need to say goodbye to…the place.”
This was where I’d met Thalia.
Where my life had changed completely.
Where I learned I had supernatural abilities.
Where I’d met Damien.
This apartment would always hold a special place in my heart.
I mean, I hadn’t been back since I’d almost lost my life to a sadistic murderer here, but I was going to misspartsof it.
It still hurt, knowing Thalia was gone, though, and that she’d never actually been here to begin with. I wished I’d gotten to know her while she’d still been alive, but I guess… I was honored to have met her at all.
Heaving out a breath, I opened the door, ready to say goodbye to my room, and oh…the first and only bathroom I’d ever had to myself. Plus the window…the very window that had shown me my first glimpse of Damien.
I was definitely going to miss that window.
“You think we brought enough boxes?” I asked as I climbed from the truck and grabbed a travel caddy full of cleaning supplies to haul out with me while Damien reached into the bed to lug out the empty boxes.
“Hey, take it easy,” I warned when he lifted the entire stack. “You’re still recovering.”
He sent me a dry glance. “They’re empty boxes. I think I got it.”
“Just be careful,” I said, starting after him like a worried mother hen.
“I am. And to answer your question, yes, I think we brought more than enough. The guys and I have picked up so much of your stuff over the past few weeks that you barely have anything left here at all. Today’s mostly just going to be cleaning up.”
Cleaning up for the next tenants who would live here.
