“Where?”
“Well, the former owners of a particular rundown shack on the outskirts of Silver Spring were extremely happy about the offer I made them because they had no plans to ever go back.”
“You bought the cabin?” She laughed hard and long. All the time she’d been feeling so cut off from him, she’d been living on the land he bought for her.
“To be clear, not that cabin either,” he said, looking pained.
“What?”
“We’re building a new house. One with plumbing and central heating.”
She shook her head. “We are not tearing it down.”
He opened his mouth and closed it.
“We are not going to kill the place we fell in love!” she said.
He smiled. “Did we?”
“It took me longer than you to realize that. I’m so sorry.”
“That’s the last time you have to apologize for that. We were both idiots. Come on, let’s go.”
“What? Now?”
“The plane is packed. I said I was coming to you. I meant now.”
She closed her eyes. “Of course you have a plane.”
“I’ll sell the plane.”
She opened her eyes, loving him so much. “After we get there.”
He grinned. “Of course after.”
The elevator dinged, and the huge man she’d met in Colorado stepped out into the foyer, took one look at the two of them, and stepped back into the elevator. “I’ll take the next one.”
He’d been the one to carry Bea into the house over the stakes.
“He’ll take the next elevator?” she asked, looking around.
“He’s coming back to Colorado. Apparently, some of the wolves are staying. Not with us.”
She couldn’t help but tremble at that. The twins were still the twins, even if they had stopped contemplating mass murder. The pack northwest of town was also trolling their woods. She couldn’t do anything about any of that.
For the first time, she stepped toward him to wrap her arms around him. If they could find peace together, why not everyone else?
In a matter of minutes, they were in the back of an SUV flying toward the airport.
She bounced on the leather seats and eyed him. “I thought you’d be in a limo.”
“Yes, because navigating traffic with a car the size of two cars gets you there so much faster than in a car the size of one car.”
“I knew you were good at math.”
She wanted to park herself in his lap, but the driver looked a lot like Mateo and kept eyeing them both from the mirror, and she did not need any more gossip flying around.
When they got to the airport, they were immediately whisked directly onto the tarmac and dropped off at the base of a plane.
