Five Years Gone & One Year Home Boxed Set by Force Marie

Author:Force, Marie [Force, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781952793950
Amazon: B0BDPD5JZ4
Goodreads: 62704563
Publisher: HTJB, Inc.
Published: 2022-09-07T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

JOHN

I haven’t been in New York City in years, but it’s just like I remember—dirty, crowded, congested and vibrant, with the kind of energy you can’t find anywhere else. It’s a madhouse. I take it all in through the backseat window of the car service that fetched us from Teterboro, the airport in New Jersey where we landed.

“Home sweet home,” Amy says as we cross one of the many bridges that lead into Manhattan.

I’m not sure which bridge it is, but they would know. I don’t care enough to ask. However, I do have other questions. “How can you stand to live here?”

“Um, well, it’s home to us,” Amy says. “I love it. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.”

As I watch the city whiz by, the graffiti, the litter, the chaos, I can’t imagine being here all the time. “I would go mad here after a week or two.”

“You’d get used to it,” Amy says.

“No, I wouldn’t.”

“I don’t know if I would either,” Muncie says. “I get why people love to visit, but I don’t think I could live here.”

“I didn’t think I could,” Jules says tentatively. “At first. I was so scared to go anywhere by myself for the first six months.”

“You were?” Amy seems astounded. “You never said that.”

Jules shrugs. “I didn’t want you guys to think I was a wimp.”

“Too late. We already thought that.”

I want to defend her. I want to say she’s the furthest thing from a wimp. She’s fearless, as far as I can tell, but I suspect my defense would be unwelcome.

Jules laughs and elbows her sister. “Shut up.”

She doesn’t need me or anyone to defend her. She’s got this. Besides, she’s probably used to her siblings picking on her, even if I’m not.

“But you do get used to it after a while,” Jules adds.

“I wouldn’t.” There are few things in this new life that I’m sure of. That’s one of them. Give me the laid-back vibe of San Diego over this zoo any day.

“I like that you can get anything you want any time you want,” Jules says. “Tacos in the middle of the night? No problem. Sushi for breakfast? We’ve got that.”

I make a note of the fact that she likes tacos in the middle of the night and sushi for breakfast.

“And the pizza!” Amy says.

“To die for.”

I feel Jules’s shiver of pleasure everywhere, including my cock, which makes me want to shout out a “welcome back to the party” for the second time in as many days. I’ve missed him. That said, I’m well aware that this isn’t the time or the place for him to make his presence known.

From the minute we arrive at the Four Seasons, I get a firsthand demonstration of what my life is going to be like going forward. Now, mind you, it certainly doesn’t suck to be upgraded to the Presidential Suite with the hotel’s thanks for a job very well done. I can live with that. But the staring, the gawking, the silent screaming, the autograph seekers—that’s going to take some getting used to.

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