too. Maybe we could watch a movie and cuddle like idiots, because that was basically all I wanted to do with Ace lately. It might have been weird, but I just needed to be touching him to remind myself he was still here. After thinking he was dead all this time, I needed the reassurance that he was home, alive and safe. So I wasn’t gonna worry about it, because he seemed to like me being a clingy weirdo at the moment.
Having my pretty girl in a bed with us was just the best feeling in the world. I wished Fox would join us though. I knew he sometimes crept into the room at night and watched us sleep. Whenever I woke up and sensed him there, a smile pulled at my lips because it gave me hope that he was coming around to the idea of Chase staying.
I’d tried to talk to him about it a couple of times so far but he’d just dismissed me, said there wasn’t a discussion to be made, and that Chase had to go. But surely he didn’t mean that. I could see the way he looked at him, the way he ached to forgive him and let him stay. So why couldn’t he just allow himself to do that and let us all be happy at last? Chase had been through enough as far as I was concerned. And he’d saved Rogue at The Dollhouse. Surely Fox could forgive him now that he knew that?
I waved goodbye to everyone as I pushed my phone into my pocket and headed out the back door into the parking lot, the night air warm against my cheeks as I headed towards my GT. A whistle caught my hear and I turned sharply, regretting not having a gun on me a moment before my eyes fell on Fox leaning against the side of his truck. Since Shawn had gone quiet after Rogue’s stabbing, I’d gotten a little complacent lately but I definitely needed to stop that, because I didn’t for a second believe that asshole was dead. His men had been sighted on the edge of town, lurking like stray dogs and we knew they’d have moved out by now if their mutt boss had upped and died.
“Wanna go make some money with me, brother?” he asked and my heart lifted.
“Yeah, sure, what’s the plan?” I headed over to him instead as he pushed off of the truck and unlocked it. He wore a white tank top with jeans and had a gun stuffed into the back of them.
“You know that Tatum chick Rogue’s been hanging out with?” he asked and I nodded. “Well one of her boyfriends has a job for us.”
“One of them?” I asked in confusion. Rogue hadn’t mentioned that part. This girl had multiple boyfriends? Wasn’t that like, my new dream?
“Yeah,” Fox snorted. “Can you imagine sharing one girl? I’d end up killing all the other boyfriends.”
I released a nervous laugh as I headed around his truck and got in the passenger side as he got in the driver’s seat.
“I mean, it’s not the worst idea,” I said and Fox scoffed.
“Doesn’t make sense to me at all. It’s like that book you leant me, right? The fucking drama of the girl not choosing is great for a story, but she’ll end up with Gabriel in the end and that’ll be that. They’re destined.”
“What if they’re all destined for her?” I asked with a frown.
“It doesn’t work like that. You can only have one star-bound mate in the world of Solaria, and Gabriel can see the future. He already knows it’ll be him.”
“Well maybe the stars shouldn’t get to choose,” I bit out harsher than I’d intended. “Maybe the girl should get to choose.”
“She will choose. And she’ll choose Gabe,” Fox said with a shrug.
“Don’t call him Gabe,” I growled and Fox’s head snapped around to look at me.
“What’s your problem? Is he not your favourite? Dante’s a good second choice, but he seems too willing to share her with-”
“Maybe that’s the point, Fox. Maybe they should share her. Maybe fate shouldn’t decide,” I said angrily and a crease formed between his eyes.
“That’s ridiculous.” He waved a hand in dismissal, starting up the truck and heading out onto the road. “That would never work.”
“You said yourself that Tatum girl has a few boyfriends. Clearly it can work in real life, or they wouldn’t be together.”
“Look, don’t get me wrong, they look happy and