Chapter 14

Scarlett’s POV

Just as I begin to gloat in the ease, I hear mild straining from one side and turn to see Gage with me in another corner of the cabinet, muscles straining hard under his hoodie as he lifted the cabinet.

“Um, thank y...”

“Shut up.”

Okay, he’s still angry. Very understandable. Once the cabinet being the heaviest item in the room that required lifting, is taken care of, he reclines back to the couch to watch me do the rest. I might be lucky I didn’t damage the couch. He might have actually thrown me out the window. These things look expensive. Besides, with any luck, that’s probably still going to be my bed tonight. It’ll be stupid for me to wreck them.

The rest of the cleaning takes a sweaty while, but once I’m done, he honors his promise and grudgingly gets up, signaling me to follow him.

Stepping outside for the first time in two days and being hit with the breeze of nature feels unreal. I love the natural environment, and qu