Chapter 18

Tea's POV

I walked out of there loaded with cookies, feeling more confused than ever... and also just a little, tiny bit hopeful.

Rocco and Dax hauled Jesse's old furniture up to the spare bedroom for me. I hadn't ever really gone inside it, but I needed to move the stuff over to Jesse's room now that I was taking it over.

I followed them back down the stairs after they'd set everything on the ground in the spare room for me.

"Thanks, guys." My hands landed in Jesse's fur like they always seemed to.

"You can thank us by coming to dinner." Rocco gave me a tentative grin. "We'd like to get to know you."

I was feeling too think to leave the house—and needed to study when I was done rearranging my room. "How about tomorrow?" I asked.

"Deal." Rocco offered me a hand.

I stepped toward him and puckered my lips, teasing him by reaching for his face. Dax grabbed me around the waist, spinning me away from Rocco, and I burst out laughing.

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