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“I don’t have to, Boone,” she said gently. “It won’t affect how I feel about dating you if you’d rather I leave as soon as my job here is finished.”
“I know,” he said.
Boone was still weirdly tense, but maybe it was because he thought she was taking advantage of his generosity. Worried, Hedra slipped her arm around his waist and squeezed gently. “I checked the going rate for what people charge for renting a room in their house and -”
“No,” he said.
“No,” she echoed.
“You’re not paying me rent to live here for a few weeks.” Now he was so tense, it was like trying to hug a piece of plywood.
She stepped back, giving him some space as he slid the final pancakes onto the plate with the others with quick, jerky movements.
“Boone, I think asking to stay was a mistake on my part,” she said. “I’ll move out as soon as Althea does.”
He shut off the burner and turned toward her, sliding his arms around her waist and pulling her flush against him. “Little lamb, I’m not upset.”
“You are,” she said. “Don’t lie to me.”
He sighed. “I don’t want you to move out.”
She blinked at him, and he sighed again. “I know how that makes me look and sound, okay? Like I’m some kind of weird, lonely guy begging his new girlfriend to live with him way too soon, but if you think about it, we’ve already lived together for a month, so it’s not that weird.”
He paused. “Okay, it’s still weird, but we get along well, and you could stay in your room if you thought it was too soon, and I can give you plenty of space, and I won’t be weird or clingy or - shit, I might be a little clingy, but that’s just me and has nothing to do with you living with me. I’d be clingy no matter what, but I’ll work harder not to -”
She pressed her hand over his mouth, trying not to giggle as Boone stared at her. “Boone, I don’t want to move out.”
“Ooou, ond?”
She took away her hand, laughing softly. “Try that again.”
“You don’t?”
“I don’t,” she said. “I would love to live with you, but I also didn’t want to be that weird, lonely girl begging her new boyfriend to let her move in with him.”
He laughed and then purred to her. “We’re both ridiculous.”
“Utterly ridiculous,” she said.
They stared silently at each other for a few seconds before Boone said, “So, I guess we’re living together then.”
“I guess so,” she said.
“That part I said about you staying in your own room was bullshit, by the way. I want you in my bed,” Boone said.
“It is a very comfortable bed,” she said.
“It is.” He nuzzled her neck before cupping her breast. “Plus, it’ll be so much easier to make you come in the middle of the night if you’re in my bed.”
“That’s a definite perk to sleeping in your bed,” Hedra said, moaning softly when Boone nipped at her neck and ran his thumb over her nipple.
“Also, you know I’ll just show up to your bedroom in my tiger form anyway,” Boone said. “He’s as obsessed with you as I am.”
“Of course he is. I’m terrific,” Hedra said.
“So terrific.” Boone’s voice was distracted, but considering he had slid his hand into her pajama pants and was lightly rubbing her clit, she couldn’t blame him. What were they talking about anyway?
“How do you feel about cold pancakes and bacon?” Boone sucked lightly on her earlobe.
