Hellion, a New Adult Romance Novel(105)

Right out of the blue. Bam. Lightning hits me dead in the chest.

 

I freeze as his words sink in and his walk slows to a stop. My legs slide down from his waist slowly and my feet touch the ground.

 

“What?” My heart is doing gymnastics in my chest. I’m not sure I heard him right. I want to think I did, but it’s just too ridiculous to believe.

 

“Let’s just do it. Let’s just move in together.” He’s smiling. He sounds really happy and wild and ridiculous. “It would be so much fun.”

 

I laugh for a second and then stop when I see his expression. “Fun? Are you serious?”

 

“Dead serious. Move in with me. I’m going to take Rebel’s old place when he and Teagan move out and you could be there with me. I’ll pay the rent. You can just be there and do your thing.”

 

It takes a while for the words swimming around in my head to come out. “That’s me and you, like, twenty-four seven, Mick.” My ears are hot, and a ringing, buzzing sound will not go away. I think I’m about to explode.

 

“Yeah. Twenty-four seven. You and me.” He pulls me to him tighter as he stares down into my eyes.

 

I feel like crying with happiness, confusion, and fear, all at the same time. No one has ever asked me to move in with them before. I’ve always been the one asking and getting rejected. “I … I … I don’t know what to say.” So many things are rushing through my mind. My parents. Jersey. School. Teagan. Alissa, even. Responsibilities, duties, demands on my time and my life.

 

“Just say yes.”

 

His words are so simple, his smile so beautiful. And that face of his. Oh, God…

 

I give myself a mental shake. Fuck all that other stuff. I adore this guy. Why wouldn’t I want to be with him twenty-four seven, especially when we fit together so well? It’s not like I’m going to disappear off the face of the earth just because I live at a different address.

 

“Okay, yes. I’ll move in with you.”

 

He picks me up and spins me around until I’m dizzy. And just like that I fall in love with a Hellion.