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"This feels suspiciously like the pink apron incident," I say in mock protest, but I take the balloons anyway and bend down to press a kiss on the top of her head Like the pink apron h the airport isn’t going to dentpink in return"

I contemplate the pink dildo that Dean likes to take baths with "That’s not a bad idea I’ve got to pick up a few gifts before I head back I’ll litter Both, if possible" Garret and Logan would die laughing at the thought of giving Dean a pink, glittering dildo I uys later

"You didn’t check a bag?" she asks as we bypass the baggage carousels

"No, ma’am" I don’t need to look at her face to know she’s disappointed "You know I’ve got to get back for practice Even if the season is sucking wind, I’m still required to lace ’em up That’s the price ofthe holidays has always been a source of dis stuff She lives for Christh a lot of the guys stayed back at Briar

"I thought uys weren’t doing well, that you’d be allowed to spend the entire break with me"

"Doesn’t work that way Besides, soon I’ll be underfoot all the ti me to leave," I warn her

But even as I say it,to be in Boston for the next three years I wonder hoe’re going to make that work

I wonder if she even wants to make it work

It’d be a lot easier if we’d ot a few more months where we’ll be in the same zip code, and for reasons I’m not fully prepared to exa distance between us bothers the shit out of e to climb back on the plane and return to Boston But I’ll have to settle for texting, phone calls, andI’d like to see how she uses her toy when I’hts about Sabrina and her vibrator I clear my throat "Mind if I drive?"

She tossesaround too much You know I’d love it if you ca No wouy who lives with histhe door open for her

She cli with your , and you know it" Then I lean forward and press another kiss on her forehead to take away the sting

During the four-hour ride hoossip of Patterson "Maria Solis’s daughter is hoets her hair cut in Austin now, but she still has the nicest manners She stopped in the other day just to say hi"

I nod absently, wondering if I had invited Sabrina to come houred the invitation would be unwelco too fast, but because she needs the money from work Before I left, she was nearly beside herself with happiness about the ti

"You should ask her out" Moain

"Who?" I ask