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“I’d love that.”
She threw her arms around my neck. “And I fully expect details next time. I’ve gotta live vicariously through you both somehow.”
Hugging her back, I leaned into it. “It’ll happen, Rin. It will.”
“We’ll see.” The words were chipper, but I saw the shadows in her eyes. Of the three of us, Trinity had always been the one who wanted a pack. A partner. Someone. She pretended she wasn’t lonely, but she was. Her dad thought he was an adventurer and was always going off on crazy expeditions. He’d been doing it since she was little.
Trinity had spent more time alone than an Omega should. “Text me,” I called after her.
She waved, but already had her head buried in her phone, likely fielding the urgent questions from her magazine staff.
“Do you need a ride, Iz?” I asked. “Didn’t Rin pick you up?”
“I’m good. The guys will be here soon.” She hugged me. “Have too much fun.” The opposite of the usual warning.
“I’ll try.”
Cameron tucked me into his side. “You need anything else?”
“I think I am officially shopped out,” I said.
“Well, they’ll deliver and install everything tomorrow,” Everett said. “That, and one other thing.”
“What’s that?”
“A greenhouse. It’s not large, but we want you to have a place to move some of your flowers and work on them until we can get a proper one built. Think of it as a transitional greenhouse.”
Micah disappeared to get the car, and I could only stare at Everett. “You bought me a greenhouse?”
“I bought you other things too, from this store. But the greenhouse is from all of us. We thought your employee could bring you some of the plants you wanted tomorrow, so you don’t have to see your aunt and uncle.”
There were no words I could say. Because they’d done it without me even asking. No prompting, just thinking about what I would need and want.
Like he knew, he pulled me in front of him, lining his chest up with my back. Everett was tall enough that he could rest his head on the top of mine, and he did while we waited for the car.
I wasn’t going to go see Frank and Laura, because fuck them. But the tiniest part of me wanted to, if only to tell Laura that this didn’t feel like being disposable.
Not at all.
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GARDEN SAGEBRUSH
(MAID’S RUIN, OUR LORD’S WOOD, SOUTHERN WORMWOOD)
MEANING: APHRODISIAC; BANTERING; LUSTFUL BED PARTNERS; SEDUCTION
OCEAN
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It was strange being alone in their house.
My house.
I needed to start thinking of it as my house. Because it was while I lived here. The closet was just as ludicrous as I thought, but I loved it. And Ashley bought me way too much fucking lingerie.
Like, seriously, who needed this much?
