The car fires up, and he leads the convoy out of the gates before taking my hand in his. His soft, cool lips graze the back of my hand, and I lean over to put my head on his chest.
“I want you to move in with me when we get back,” he casually murmurs out of nowhere.
I swallow hard, but it’s not like we didn’t live together for almost the whole two years we dated.
“Are you sure?”
“You know I am. I plan on being with you every second I’m there, and I’m thinking about taking a position which will allow me to be on the road less and at home with you more.”
“You’d have to lose rank to do that,” I say in objection.
“Not necessarily. There are several captain positions that offer stability. I could be in charge of the missions from afar as opposed to being in the field. I’ve been talking to Commander Jude about it, and he said he’d see what he could find.”
I cover my smile with my hand when I can’t suppress it, and he pulls me over to his body to be closer. I slide in behind the wheel as he scoots his seat back to give me more room, and then he kisses my forehead.
“That makes you happy?” he asks curiously.
“It does,” I giggle out, and then my lips carefully find his while keeping my head out of his view.
It would look bad if he started swerving given my reputation for moving vehicles and sex.
He smiles into the kiss, and I nestle into his chest as his chin rests on top of my head. He shifts gears to speed up the convoy once we’re out of the residential areas, and I stare out into the vast wasteland our uranium touched fights have created.
“It’s hard to believe this world was once green instead of brown,” I huff.
“We’ll fix it one day. We just have to find all the right pieces. This blood is a huge deal.”
To the full bloods.
“My kind will still cease to exist,” I huff out, and his lips stroke my forehead again.
“You’ll still be here though. I don’t care what I have to do, I’m going to make sure I have all the time in the world with you.”
I smile lightly, and then his fingers trail up and down my arm while he keeps just one hand on the wheel.
“What about kids? You’ll never have kids unless you wait on my life span to end before finding someone who can,” I huff out.
“We never really talked about kids before, so why are you bringing it up now?” he muses.
“Because it’s been eating at me lately. I don’t want to take that opportunity away from you. You could have a full blood child or even a hybrid child. You can’t have any child with me though.”
Tears threaten my eyes, but I hold them back.
“Araya, I don’t give a damn about having kids. The world is changing, and soon they may allow abandoned hybrid children to be adopted. My future is with you. When your life span ends, then so will mine because I don’t want to live an eternity without you.”
“Don’t say that,” I scold.
“I’m only saying it because I mean it,” he murmurs against my head, and my lips fold over his without concern for the swerving I cause.
He smiles again, and then I lower myself back down out of his view when I get done rewarding him for his sweet words.
“At least I’m a non-ager,” I laugh out. “You probably wouldn’t want to spend a few hundred years with someone who looks as old as I really am.”
“I wouldn’t care, baby. I’ve got it that bad for you,” he grumbles out, and I giggle more before climbing back over into the passenger seat.
I daringly drop the straps of my halter top, and it drops to my waist to reveal the strapless black corset hiding underneath.
“I don’t think this would look too good on someone with wrinkles,” I seduce, and he swerves wide right before jerking the car back straight.
