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He couldn’t stop the flood from releasing and yanked her hips close so she couldn’t move, but she started to grind and then he felt her coming too.
He held her like that. Their bodies plastered to each other, the pulsing and twitching below not nearly as hard as the thumping of his heart.
“I love you, Gabe.”
“I love you too, Elise. More than I thought I could love another person.”
“Yeah, that too,” she said softly.
38
NONE OF THAT MATTERS
“Is this your first Memorial Day party at the Fierces’?” Gabe asked. It had been two weeks since their night out.
“It is,” Elise said. “What about yours?”
“No,” he said. “I stopped in last year for an hour or so. My parents have been coming for years for a little bit.”
“I was invited last year,” she said. “But didn’t want to do it.”
“Because I was going to be here?” he asked, tugging on a lock of her hair.
“Would you be upset if I said yes?” she asked. She’d done everything she could to avoid being around Gabe for years and now she wasn’t sure why she’d done that.
Why she wasted so much of her life when she could have what she did now.
“I wouldn’t have expected you to say otherwise,” he said, laughing.
“No more of that,” she said. “It’s in the past and now we are in a great spot. It’s been over four months but feels like more. Don’t you think?”
“I do,” he said. “Even though we don’t see as much of each other as I’d like. Sorry about the long days.”
“Please,” she said, waving her hand. “If anyone understands that, it’s me. You know that.”
They were climbing out of his truck to walk into Diane’s backyard. Those women flipped houses all the time for parties. But since they lived less than a mile from each other in the same development, it wasn’t that big of a deal in anyone’s mind.
She found out that Bryce Fierce lived not that far away too. Ryder and Sam lived a few miles away in a different development along with Noah and Drake. That made her laugh. She’d heard those two twins were close, but that almost was overkill in her eyes.
Twins Wyatt and Jade didn’t live that close to each other. Wyatt a few miles from here in a house that her brother had built last year for him. Jade was out in the country a little bit more.
Elise and Royce didn’t live that close together, but Gabe’s house was actually closer to Royce’s than hers was.
Not to mention, he had more space and slowly she was looking at his place more like a home.
It was odd how she didn’t seem to think of her townhouse as a home even though she’d tried to make it that way.
Could be what so many had said in the past, that sharing walls wasn’t the same as having your own space.
“I appreciate it,” he said.
“Trust me,” she said. “I know not many understand.”
“No,” he said. “They don’t. I’m sure you had the same problem.”
“What problem is that?” Diane asked. “And welcome to the party.”
“People understanding our jobs take so much time in our lives,” she said.
