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I reet the door for her every time A queen needs to be treated like one

Once we’re free from the station, out of the hustle and bustle of most of the heavy traffic, I ask if she’d like the top down on the car

“Your car,” she says quietly with a shrug looking away, so I decide to keep it up for now

“Leotten into her so suddenly

She must have noticed

“Sorry,” she murmurs “Just a car like this is worth more than our whole house…”

I open my mouth to remind her it’s just a rental but remember my own car is worth twice this, I keep that to h

Driving in silence for a while I can see Natasha’s thinking things over in her head Replaying the past few days

The good and the bad, by the looks

I’ better for her For both of us from here on in

“Where’s your other stuff? All your belongings fro on the practical side of things, which is in my nature

“I shipped it all over before I left It should’ve arrived by now,” she says absently, pretending to ad to bank up

She hborhood when I ask where exactly it is she lives, and then I understand a little better

Where she lived, I should say

I haven’t seen her place but I’m familiar with the name of the area

It’s not a place I want to see her driving through let alone living in

In a single moment, it’s settled In my mind at least

She’s not going home

Home is here, with me from now on

Us

Chapter Seventeen

Natasha