“That’s fine. I was just wondering.” He stirred some sauce on the stove and then gave me a taste. Everything Fin had ever made was beyond delicious. In another life, he might have been a chef.
“Sorry, should have texted you. How was your day?”
“Really good, actually. I think it’s actually going to work. But I have something to tell you that I don’t think you’re going to like.” Crap. I braced myself.
“What is it?”
“I have to go away again. Just for a few days, but still. I’m so sorry, but this has to be done. There are signatures and all sorts of things that I need to do in person. Plus I need to close up the old offices and go through everything and I can’t even tell you how many other things.” I tried not to be too disappointed, but I couldn’t help it.
“That’s fine,” I said, and I cringed at how pouty my voice was.
“I want you to come with me,” he said, setting the spoon down.
“You want me to come with you?” I asked.
“Yes. I know I’ll be working all day, but you can go sightseeing and visit museums or just hang out in the room. You don’t have to come if you don’t want to—” I stopped him with a kiss as I threw myself on him.
“I would love to come with you! I don’t care if I have to hang out in the hotel all day. I’ll find something to do with myself.”
“Are you sure?”
“Absolutely!” I was planning on heading to Italy soon anyway. I still hadn’t told Fin about that trip, but I planned to get another ticket and surprise him with it. He’d probably insist on paying for everything, but I really wanted to give him something. He’d given me so much.
“I know you’ll have to take a few days off from classes. Is that okay?” I’d make it okay.
“Yes. Oh Fin, I’m so excited!” I hadn’t travelled anywhere in so long.
“You’re already mentally packing, aren’t you?” he said a few seconds later. How did he know?
“No,” I said, even though I was lying. He just grinned to himself and then went to put dinner on the table.
“So I’ve been thinking,” I said.
“That can be dangerous, you know,” he said. Wow, he was in a really good mood. I smacked him on the arm and continued.
“I’ve been thinking that maybe I might like to move in with you. I love this apartment. It feels like home. And it has all of your stuff in it, which I also love.” Being surrounded by Fin’s things had been so nice when he’d been gone. I didn’t know how I would have gotten through it without having this place to visit when I needed to.
“You want to move in here?”
“Yes. Is that okay?” He’d been so enthusiastic about it before.
“Oh, I want you to move in with me, but I wasn’t sure if you’d want to come here. I thought you might want to get a new place and buy furniture together.” Oh. I hadn’t thought about that. Buying furniture with Fin. Picking a color scheme and arguing about curtain fabric. I couldn’t help but smile when I thought about it. Our styles were so different, it would be interesting to see what kind of house we’d put together.
“Well, that’s something else to consider,” I said. “And we’d need to figure out how to do rent and utilities and all that. I’m not letting you take care of everything. I’ll let you get away with a lot, but not that.” He opened his mouth and I knew he was going to protest, but I slapped my hand over it to stop him.
“Nope. No negotiation. If we’re doing this, we’re doing it fifty-fifty.” He licked my palm and I moved my hand.
“Ninety-ten,” he said. “With me doing the ninety.”
I narrowed my eyes. “Fifty. Fifty.”
“Eighty-twenty.”
What had I gotten myself into?
Look for the final episode of
Deep Surrendering
Episode 11
when it comes out on January 22nd.
Coming Soon
Behind Your Back (Behind Your Back, Book One)
Back To Back (Behind Your Back, Book Two)
The Noctalis Chronicles
Nocturnal (Book One)
Nightmare (Book Two)
Neither (Book Three)
Neverend (Book Four)
The Whisper Trilogy
Whisper (Book One)
Fall and Rise
Deeper We Fall (Book One)
Faster We Burn (Book Two)
Slowly We Trust (Book Three)
My Favorite Mistake
My Sweetest Escape
(Available from Harlequin)
Surrendering
Sweet Surrendering
Surrendering to Us
Dark Surrendering
For Real
UnWritten
I can’t believe we’re almost there. Almost to the end. Well, the end of this particular part of Fin and Marisol’s story. I sometimes like to think what happens to my characters after I’m done writing down their words. Thank you for being there for this part of their journey. We only have a little bit more to go…
Chelsea M. Cameron is a YA/NA and Adult New York Times/USA Today Best Selling author from Maine. Lover of things random and ridiculous, Jane Austen/Charlotte and Emily Bronte Fangirl, red velvet cake enthusiast, obsessive tea drinker, vegetarian, former cheerleader and world's worst video gamer. When not writing, she enjoys watching infomercials, singing in the car and tweeting. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Maine, Orono that she promptly abandoned to write about the people in her own head. More often than not, these people turn out to be just as weird as she is.
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