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“Xander!” She squirms in my arms before I toss her on the bed I jules

She places her hands on my shoulders and tries to push me away “That wasn’t nice”

I grin “You fucking love it and you know it”

She s ainst mine “You think you know me, huh?”

I nod,her forehead “Oh, I know you”

“What’s my favorite color?”

I snort “Thea, I’m pretty sure all the lemurs in the world know your favorite color It’s pink”

She laughs, squir beneath me “What the hell? Why lemurs?”

I shrug “It was the first thing that popped in my head”

I have no real good defense I knoas random But that’s us

I sit up and look around the room All the furniture is in place, but boxes with our clothes and stuff litter the space, and I’h, and I can’t thank Nova enough for doing that I sure as hell knoasn’t Jace He doesn’t make his own bed

But this is nice, especially since we’re both exhausted fro not to fall back to sleep I lean over and kiss her forehead

“I’ll go bring our stuff in You get a shower or go to bed, whatever you want”

She nods, and

that’s how I know she really is exhausted Nor me, and I would then insist that she didn’t