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His mouth lifted up on one side, and he dropped his head as he walked toward ed "This isit for a studio?"

"Uhno There are two rooms in the back, both about the same size as the upstairs loft I’ll use one for a studio and another to store the rest of our stuff for now But I’ to live here"

"Seriously?" My eyes widened and I looked around ain "I didn’t know you could live here"

"Back whenit, the upstairs was an open office so they could look out at as going on down here There was a ser now, and has a shower and everything There’s a bathrooestured to a door off to the side "We remodeled those so they look nicer There’s a laundry room hidden behind the pantry that we put in I didn’t knohat to do with the floor The back roorandma passed, so I left that, but I kind of liked the way the concrete looked for this room So they just put the dark sealer on it, and called it a day"

I looked down at the glossy floor and nodded "I like it, it fits with the brick walls And the kitchen?"

"Ah, yeah, that’s new," he er ed his side "You also don’t cook"

"No," he said on a laugh "But it looks nice"

I studied it for a fewto look at hi his brow as he did "What?"

"You kept saying ‘hen you were tellingin with you?"

It hit ht have been another reason he didn’t want irl in years, but I also hadn’t known about this place, and I’d been so focused on trying to move on with irl he’d been talking to back here in Thatch The thought stolein in to understand why I wondered for a second if he had been patching things up with his ex-girlfriend, LeAnn, and the sinking feeling grew Itso unfaer with anyone frohly and took a step away from him "That’s so not hed and started walking toward the door "Since when is my life not your business, Grey? You’ve made it your business since ere nine"

My s hi in with you, and that may have been why you didn’t want me to help you unload the truck"