Hideaway

He slowly approached me, staring hard. “Love is pain, Nik,” he told me. “It’s never felt good.”

“When we’re young, we are who we are out of necessity—we are who we’re taught to be. With freedom, though, comes the liberty to broaden our horizons. When we only have ourselves to answer to,” I said and glanced at her again. “You haven’t gotten that freedom yet, have you?

I love you,” he whispered against my lips as he backed us away from the others. “And he can send me to prison again for a very long time. I’m not letting that happen now that I’ve found you. Please.”

Rika enter and hand her coat to the attendant. She wore sleep shorts with avocados all over them and a matching shirt that read I Avo Crush On You.

“Are you guys gonna get it on right now?” Will asked.
I hooded my eyes. For Christ’s sake.
Leave it to Will to crack a joke right now.

“Oh, my God,” Kai grumbled, turning back toward the house and shaking his head. “Nine dogs….”

“I’ll call you when the text alerts start scaring me.”

“Then buy whatever you want for her to wear. She’ll have some options if she ever decides to remove the stick in her ass.”

“You can thank Little Sister for this,” he told the headstone. “It was her idea.”

God, Kai was going to kill me.