Conceited
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Then I forgave him. He’s back to being a smart ass, and I wonder when I will actually go home. I’ve been at his house since that night in the club, going back to mine to grab clothes and leaving his only for work. The rest of the time we’ve spent in bed, fucking. It’s been magical. I can’t get enough of him. Ever.
Storm waves at us as we step in. I like her, a lot. She’s a great boss and for her age she’s accomplished heaps. Echo looks at her like she’s the sun, I love it. And I even like the way Creed looks at El, always silent, but he’s constantly aware of where she is. If Echo looks at Storm as if she is the sun, Creed looks at El as if he’s a wolf protecting his mate. And we all know you don’t fuck with a wolf’s mate.
Darby sits by himself, El hands him a drink which he smiles about. It’s just us, and Creed’s mother who has a sleeping baby Annabelle in her arms.
“Creed doesn’t like people,” Falcon says as we sit down. “Don’t wish him a happy birthday, he may kill you,” he warns, pulling me next to him. Creed walks past us, and Falcon reaches for the present I brought for Creed.
“Happy Birthday,” Falcon says, to which Creed looks at Falcon as if he wants to kill him. Very slowly and extremely painfully.
“Fuck off.” He keeps walking.
“You have to stir him, don’t you?” El says shaking her head.
Falcon pulls me to him and kisses the top of my head. He says I love you every chance he gets, and it still makes my butterflies take flight in a mad rush.
“I like seeing you together, it’s good for you,” El says, walking off in the same direction Creed just went.
“I want to ask you something.”
I turn to look at him. All playfulness is gone, and all that’s left is Falcon.
My Falcon.
“Yeah...” I say waiting.
“I want you to move in with me.”
“Shit, really?” I ask him. I didn’t see that coming.
“You already live with me, basically, and I don’t want you to go back to yours. I will just follow you. So, when I go out at night I know I will be coming back to you and you’re safe.”
I sit back in my seat. That’s a big ask, he hasn’t done much ‘scouting’ is the word I like to use for it, and I haven’t gone back to his place of business either.
“That’s a big step, are you sure it’s what you want?”
He nods his head. “Raven, of course it is. All my big steps I want to only be with you. When will you realize that?”
I told him about my insecurities regarding being his first in so many aspects. He told me he wanted me to be his first, last, and everything in between.
What we have, he wouldn’t want with anyone else. Only I know him in this way and that’s the way he wants to keep it. The way he said it put me at ease. I know he was speaking the truth, and I know he doesn’t want any other person. He doesn’t even look anymore, and the way he looks at me makes me greedy for more. If he stays looking at me like that forever, I can see us never breaking up or leaving each other.
He is my forever.
“Okay, I will.”
He smiles and leans in to kiss me.
“Come on, guys, get a room,” Echo yells.
Falcon flips him off making me smile against his mouth.
“Darby.”
We all turn to Creed standing at the door. A woman standing next to him is holding her very pregnant belly. Darby stands.
She smiles. “The baby’s coming.”
I watch as Darby’s face turns white and he runs to her.
Everyone goes quiet and it isn’t until they leave that someone finally talks.
“What the fuck was that?”
I think it came from Storm. She’s staring at Echo waiting for an answer. He stands and walks to where they just left, leaving only Falcon and us girls. He stands too. His hand slips away, his lips brush against mine. “Stay, hang with the girls. Then go home and get naked. I plan to have you as my dinner tonight.”
I blush before he leaves.
Storm smiles at me. “He’s a goner, that one,” she says smiling at where he just left.
“Oh, he’s more than a goner, he’s in love. It looks good on him,” El says.
Creed’s mother smiles and nods her head too.
I don’t ask about the woman with the baby, Falcon will tell me when he’s ready.
So, I spend the rest of the day with the girls and watching Annabelle.
Falcon messages me telling me he will be home in twenty minutes and to make sure I’m naked.
I plan to do just that.
I smile, wide.
Who would have thought I’d be in love with Falcon and moving in with him?
My teenage self cheers.
My adult self smiles, deep within, happy and in love.
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