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“That first night. When you tried to strangle me with your hair?”
“When you saved me from Eric? And I forced you into a fake relationship?”
He nodded, his nose bumping against hers.
“What about it?”
“First one,” he said.
“First what?”
“Memory. With you. Here. I tried to get them all, but there are others I’ve forgotten, I’m sure…”
“Breaking in that bed you built me,” she said, arching a brow.
He chuckled. “That’s an ongoing one…”
“The tour wasn’t of the house, was it? It was a tour of us?” she asked.
He nodded. “It’s sort of a preamble. To show you where I’m coming from when I say this.” Her heart was beating rapidly in her chest. She felt warm and cold at the same time. Giddy, even. But somehow, she waited. “I don’t want to sell this place.”
Surprised, she stammered. “But… you sank so much money into it… it’d fetch a great price, Jaxon!”
He shook his head. “None that would be worth losing every one of those things I just showed you… I know memories aren’t what makes a relationship, but I feel like we can make more here. You and I. And... “ He shrugged. “I’d like to start now.”
“What are you saying?”
“I want this to beourhouse. I feel like it already is, unofficially…” He smiled and Teagan’s heart jumped into her throat.
“Are you asking me-”
“We already do, Teagan. I’m asking you to make it official. Let go of the lease on your place. We’re always here anyway.”
“We’re always here anywaydoesn’t sound very romantic,” she teased.
“Fine, I lie awake at night wishing you got your mail here. That the walk-in closet I built was full of all your shit and that you broughtallof your dying plants here to die in a sufficient amount of light. That you didn’t buy two of everything so you’d have extras at your apartment ‘just in case’. I want to get rid of ‘just-in-case’ because I only want you.”
Her mouth dropped open and she closed it again, swallowing. “Jaxon…”
“That romantic enough for you? I love you and I want you to live here. For good.”
“What if we fight?”
“Then we’ll make up.”
“What if we don’t?” she asked.
“I can’t imagine any situation where we wouldn’t.”
“Jaxon, we’ve only been together for-”
He interrupted her. “Doyoucare, or do you care what everyone else is going to think?”
Taking her bottom lip between her teeth, she thought about it.
He was right. She was practically living here, anyway. Even when they fought, she still stayed over here. Lying down in bed in a huff and still putting her cold feet on his legs. And he let her. Then, at some point, they’d roll towards each other and talk.
They never went to sleep angry. And they always went to sleep here.
