Secrets Worth Keeping (Finding my Home #2)- Nikita Parmenter Page 0,136
your way” Trick demands his voice controlled.
Atlas doesn’t move his forehead from mine and nods.
“Have you got back up?”
“Yes” Atlas replies immediately and being this close to his face I can tell he’s being honest.
“Good back up?” Jensen asks, none of the usual humour in his voice.
“As good as having one of you with me” Atlas grins, finally pulling back although he doesn’t loosen his grip on me. “Rage, Quinn mentioned him at the bar. He’s handling shit for me whilst I’m here. You guys are going to love him. He’s had my back like you guys have.”
“Then we owe him” Trick says, accepting that Atlas is speaking the truth.
“Can’t wait to meet him. Poor fucker putting up with you all by himself” Jensen smirks lightening the mood as Atlas throws something at him. The table quickly descends into chaos and I chuckle, determined to enjoy our last day all together and adamant that we will all be back together again soon anyway.
I give Atlas a quick kiss as he continues to pelt stuff at the others and make my way out of the kitchen and the line of fire.
I make quick work of the shower and chuckle when I see the navy blue, sheer lace, underwear that Rafe has picked out for me laid out on my bed. He’s not here so I put it on and take a couple of pictures sending them to just his cell number before I put on a low cut lose white shirt that shows the lace edges of my bra and a pair of light blue jeans. I’ve just finished doing my simple make up when there’s thundering footsteps on the stairs and Rafe practically falls into my room.
“Damn it, I missed it!” He grumbles as I stand up and his eyes rake over me appreciatively regardless of the fact I'm now full clothed.
“Sorry Big Guy. You can see later” I grin and he stalks over to me, pulling me into his arms and kissing me in a way that leaves me begging for more.
“Ever!” Trick calls up the stairs, interrupting us. “We’re going on a hike. Dress warm.”
“Got it” I call back and grin up at Rafe, “later” I promise and he grins.
I grab my snow boots and giant coat and follow Rafe back downstairs.
“Do you guys have a destination in mind?” I ask as I reach the bottom of the steps.
“Yeah, there’s a waterfall about a two mile hike from here” Jensen explains.
“It’s lush in the summer, we’ll bring you out here again then” Trick adds as we all walk out the door and into the cold.
“At least we can get out of the damn door today” Riot grumbles making us chuckle.
“When are we leaving?” I ask curiously. “Can we even get down the mountain?”
“Late afternoon. I don’t want to leave it too late because of getting down the mountain, they’ve cleared the road as best they can this morning but if it snows again it will have been pointless” Trick explains.
“That makes sense” I reply, refusing to let the thought of leaving bring me down again.
Atlas comes up beside me and threads our gloved fingers together, squeezing my hand.
“I forgot how hard it was to walk in snow” Jensen grumbles only five minutes in.
“That’s because you’re deliberately walking on the softer and deeper parts you jackass. If you walked on the path like the rest of us, it wouldn’t be nearly so damn hard” Luc tells him and we all laugh as Jensen pulls an exaggerated offended face.
“Well that was rude” he gasps and I can’t help giggling.
Especially when he sighs as loud as he can stomps his foot and practically sashays his way onto the wide path that the rest of us are on, where the snow is more tightly packed together and easier to walk on.
“You’re an idiot” Luc chuckles affectionately which sets me off again.
“Hey did you hear anything more from your aunt? How’re the babies?” I ask suddenly, remembering that the photo she sent threw me so badly that I forgot to reply. The guys all share a look that I don’t even bother trying to decipher before Luc turns to me.
“They’re all good, she wants to have us all over for dinner at some point” he chuckles.
“Does she realise how much you all eat?” I ask making them laugh.
“Yeah but she doesn’t mind in the slightest” he adds.
“We’ll have to do it on a spare weekend” Trick muses.