Page 43 of The Alpha's Assistant & The Dom Next Door

He laughs and tightens his grip on me, kissing my temple. “I already knew that, sweetie. Anyway, now you live in a castle too. This is our newhome.”

Her face lights up even more. “Come on, Flubber!” she calls, and the wandering puppy barks and scrambles after her as she hurries up the stairs to the door. “We’re gonna livehere!”

“So how did you get everything ready for us?” Carl’s voice is still a little raspy, but his throat has healed. We walk up the stairs more slowly, arm inarm.

“Oh, you know. Deep cleaning, a premature estatesale.”

“Noexorcism?”

I think of Shayla, now sulking in a cell. “We already handledthat.”

He laughs and wraps an arm around me as we go to join his daughter. “That wedid.”

The End.