Total pages in book: 87
Estimated words: 83195 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 416(@200wpm)___ 333(@250wpm)___ 277(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 83195 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 416(@200wpm)___ 333(@250wpm)___ 277(@300wpm)
I stare at him in disbelief. “Alek, you hate the city. Hate the rowdiness.”
“Yes, but I love you. Did you not say right now you want to focus on your career? Is this not the perfect place for this time in your life?”
I’m speechless. “You can’t just buy girls apartments, Alek.”
He smirks and squeezes my hand. “I don’t do anything for anyone. But I’ll do everything for my woman,” he says as he leads me to a large balcony. I’m trying to figure out what’s being built on it with wooden pillars.
“You said you wanted a vegetable garden, didn’t you?” he says, almost shyly, as if I might not like it.
I cover my mouth with my hand, overwhelmed he remembered that.
Living with him was a brief solution until I found a new apartment, but I wanted to wait to move out until after he’d fully recovered.
But this…
“Alek, it’s too much.”
“It’s not enough for the shit I put you through. But I’m trying. And I’ll even let you fill it with furniture, but please have Anya restrain herself. Our taste in art is different.” His jaw tics, and I laugh.
“Are you… serious about this? Wait, are you trying to ask me to move in with you?”
He casually shrugs. “I don’t recall asking.”
I laugh. “Alek, we don’t have to live in the city if you hate it so much.”
“I wasn’t asking,” he growls, and my heart fills when I look up at him.
This gloved monster.
This vault of a man who, little by little, is growing.
For me.
For us.
I look back at the vegetable garden.
“Should we get a dog too?”
“Let’s see if you can keep the plants alive first.”
I laugh as I wrap his hands around my waist from behind and admire the view.
He dips his chin to the crook of my neck, and I know, no matter what, we’ll be okay.
No matter what obstacle or demons we have to face—no matter how gory.
We’ll protect one another.