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Madd shrugs. “Maybe.”
The truth is, we haven’t uncovered anything thus far to dissuade us from allowing their pack to join our alliance. And with the threat of the hunters still lurking out there, we could use the extra manpower. We have to do our due diligence and finish vetting them before we can make a decision, but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time.
The three of us make our way into the complex and to the dorms, carrying Andie’s boxes into her new room and depositing them with a stack of others.
“Thanks again for giving up your room to me,” Andie says, flashing me a smile. “Ares was being a douche about giving my old one back.”
“No, really? That doesn’t sound like him at all,” I tease.
She laughs, brushing her hands off on the legs of her pants. “Yeah, well I didn’t want to make a big stink about it since technically I was the one who chose to leave. But now that I’m back, commuting from Stillwater every day would’ve gotten old fast.”
“Arch does it,” Madd mumbles.
“Archer has a reason to, since he’s got pack duties. He’ll be Alpha soon. I’m a free agent.” She folds her arms over her chest, waggling her brows.
“How many more boxes do you have?” I ask.
She waves a hand dismissively. “Just one or two, I can get ‘em. Thanks for your help, guys.”
I nod, following Madd out the door and into the hallway. Andie heads back to the parking lot, while the two of us start in the opposite direction, toward the IT hub.
“I think I’m gonna miss the dorms,” I say wistfully, glancing back toward the long hallway of matching doors.
“Yeah right,” Madd scoffs with a chuckle. “Don’t act like you don’t love being in my bed every night, Duchess.”
“Ourbed,” I correct, pinning him with a hard look. “And of course I do, it’s just different. A new phase, I guess. It all happened so fast that I barely even realized the last one was ending.”
He glances down at me, arching a brow. “Any regrets?”
“None,” I say resolutely. “I wouldn’t change a thing. You’re stuck with me, Duke.”
He grins at that, taking my hand and pulling me toward the exit door rather than continuing down the hall.
“Where are we going?”
“Andie said Lo wasn’t around, so there’s no point in going to IT,” he grumbles.
“So where, then?” I reiterate.
Madd grins as he pushes open the door, a blast of warm air hitting us in the face as he steps out and points a finger up to the sky.
A giddy feeling comes over me, my heart fluttering with excitement.Of course.
I’m not sure who initiates it, but the next thing I know, we’re racing each other around the building to the old utility ladder, laughing like little kids as we climb up to the roof. We skirt around the big AC unit and wander over to our ledge, where I pause to gaze out at the empty practice field down below, my chest tightening at the memory of finding Madd sitting here when I first came back to town.
“You used to come up here when you missed me, true or not true?” I murmur.
“True,” he confirms, coming up behind me and sliding his arms around my waist. He presses a kiss to the crown of my head and I melt back against him, content in the warm safety of his embrace.
We’ve started playing this game as a way to fill in the gaps cleaved by our eight years apart. Not that it really matters. All that does is the future and how we’ll spend the rest of it together. As far as I’m concerned, we’ve earned it- nobody has fought harder to be together than Madd and me. We’ve overcome every obstacle to find our way back to one another, and now that we have, I’m never letting him go.
“What are you thinking about, Dutch?” Madd growls against my neck, his hands sliding against my belly and fingertips dipping into the waistband of my leggings.
I tip my head back against his shoulder to give him better access to kiss and nip my neck, suppressing a shiver as his hand slips into my panties and his finger brushes my clit.
“You,” I breathe, my blood turning molten in my veins as he starts rubbing circles around it. “How you’re mine, and how lucky we are.”
“Damn right,” he rumbles in my ear, sliding his finger through my folds and plunging it into my entrance.
