Fallen Crest Campout: A Fallen CrestCrew crossover novella by Tijan

Author:Tijan [Tijan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-25T16:00:00+00:00

12

Samantha

I was staring at heaven.

Mason was shirtless, lying on the bed beside me and Maddie was curled in his arms. Her head was turned into his neck and he was cradling her and just watching her.

After we got to Fallen Crest, we headed to Malinda’s and my dad’s house. We were back in my old bedroom in the basement. I’d needed sleep. Any time you go camping, there’s a necessary recuperation/hibernation time period afterwards and Mason, bless him, and had volunteered to stay up with Maddie when she got fussy.

Seeing I was awake, he said softly, “Hey. You feel more rested?”

I nodded, sitting up, and I reached for her. It was just automatic. That was my little girl.

He shifted, handing her, then bending down and kissing her forehead first and then mine. He eased out of bed not to wake her as she started nestling into me. “Bathroom. Be back.” He trailed a hand down my arm as he left.

She’d need to be fed soon, but until then, I eased back against the headboard and held Maddie, breathing her smell in. Heaven. Pure heaven.

It wasn’t long before Mason came back and eased right back in his place. He moved up to sit next to me, curling an arm around me so he was holding both of us, and he moved his head, kissing my temple. “Malinda’s obsessed.”

I grinned. He wasn’t lying.

We came back and Malinda had a whole scene where she tried to get us to leave again. We didn’t, but she was firm. “Now, you go. Shoo. I need more grandma time.” When she got that we weren’t actually leaving, she caved, but we got grumbles and glowers for the next couple hours before I went down for a nap.

I said now, “Maddie was in a good mood when we got back. Mama Malinda needs to be called Grandma Malinda now, and if we ever moved back, she’d be our nanny.”

His arm tightened around me. “Maybe we should do that.”

I looked up, frowning. “What?”

His eyes were on Maddie. “During off-season. We could get a house here, come back and stay. You can train wherever. And I know you love running up in the hills. Then when we need to go back for football, we go back.”

I smoothed a hand down Maddie’s little back. “You’d be okay with that?”

He shrugged. “Yeah. Why not? I mean, there are reasons you want to be closer to Heather too.”

Yeah.

“We can afford two houses?”

He nodded. “Oh yeah. I mean, I have a good salary with the team, but Logan and I both have money from our dad’s company too. We’ve not really touched that money, or I haven’t. I don’t think Logan has either.”

I’d forgotten about that money.

“It’ll be fine. We don’t need to worry about that stuff, and if we did, we could downsize at one of the houses. Real estate is usually a good investment too.”

Maddie moved, and we both held our breaths. Waiting.

Then she settled back in, just moving her head, finding me, and her entire body relaxed.

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