I’m going to be okay. This business is going to be profitable. I’ve got this.
We’ve got this.
“That’s my girl,” Renee says, booping my nose.
I bat her hand away and grimace.
She laughs. “Got you.”
“C’mon babe, I’ve got a three-pound bag of hot wings calling my name at home,” Drew yells.
We both laugh.
“Better not let him starve,” I say as we head for the main hall.
Renee rolls her eyes. “Girl, you don’t even know. He turns into a monster when his blood sugar is low. Those wings are the appetizer.”
“And you’re the main course!” Drew yells as he scoops her up when she exits the smut tunnel. He spins her around and pretends to munch on her neck. Renee screams, kicking her feet as they twirl.
They’re so gosh dang cute.
We say our goodbyes and I head up to the apartment full of whimsy and a pep in my step.
I’m okay.
Everything is going to be okay.
He kissed me.
thirty-two
Bathroom Break
“So beautiful!”
-Alittlebookishmom
“I wish you weren’t so far away…I’m still thirsting for that re-cover copy of BotCG!”
-BintheBooks
I scroll the comment section and smile. I know I’m not supposed to be on social media before I get out of bed, but it feels appropriate today. Today is when everyone judges me for the last several months of work.
Bastian manifests in the doorway, leaning against it like some kind of book boyfriend so his bicep tightens his shirt.
“Lazing about on the most important day for my hoard?”
I huff through my nose. “Myshop.”
He lunges onto the bed and pulls my back against him. I scream in delight and hold onto his arm as it bands around my middle.
“Whenareyou going to learn they’re one in the same?” he says, nuzzling my neck and tickling me.
I giggle, a feeling of wholeness overflowing. “Stop! I haven’t gone pee yet!”
“That’s your fault,” he says, his fingers digging into my hip.
“No!” I shriek, holding onto his arms to keep him from tickling me again.
