Miles Ever After (Miles High Series)(43)

“Eradicate what?”

“Wolves, Hayden.” He rolls his eyes as if I’m stupid. “What else would I be talking about?”

“You’re actually serious?” I gasp in surprise. “There are no wolves in the United Kingdom, Christopher, aren’t you supposed to know this?”

“We did hear something growl,” Eddie replies, seemingly convinced too. “Something is out there, Hazen.”

“Listen wimps.” I pull back the blankets on Eddie’s bed. “Tomorrow I’m going to check it all out and make sure it’s safe for you two yellowbellies.”

“Eddie and I have never pretended to be farm boys, Hayden. We’re city slickers, aren’t we, Eddie.” He bumps Eddie’s shoulder with his.

Eddie smiles goofily with a nod.

“Oh, and there’s a house down on the bottom paddocks for your parents,” Christopher says casually as if he just remembered. “And another broken-down house on another faraway paddock in real bumfuck nowhere that we will fix up as a guesthouse one day.”

I stop still. “What? There’s a house for my parents?”

“Uh-huh,” He puts his hands on his hips as if proud of himself, “They can come whenever it suits them, even move here if they want.”

My eyes well with tears again. “I can’t believe this, Christopher, you’ve done all this for me?”

He pulls me close and kisses my lips, “I want you to be happy, Grumps.”

“This is going to be a big adjustment for you boys.” I look between them.

“We can hack it. Can’t we, Ed?”

My heart sinks. “I don’t want you to hack it, I want you to love it.”

Christopher puts his arm around Eddie and pulls him close. “As long as we’re all together, everything is going to be alright. And you want to be a farm girl, so we are going to love it.”

“Do you promise?” I ask hopefully.

“Well it better be,” Eddie mutters dryly. “You’re getting married now, remember?”

I giggle and look down at the ring on my finger as I sit on the bed, the boys sit down either side of me. “I can’t believe it.” I look up to Eddie. “We have so much to do, buddy, we have to sort our new house out and organize a wedding and grocery shop and oh, do we have a tractor?”

Christopher frowns. “Calm down. What is it with you and fucking tractors? Do you watch tractor porn?”

We all fall silent as our minds individually race off on tangents.

“Big few days,” Christopher eventually says.

“Why, what are we doing?”

“Well.” He thinks for a moment. “Tomorrow we can look around the farm and then we’re going to take Eddie to London and show him around.”

Eddie’s eyes light up. “Really?”

“And buy some furniture while we are there,” Christopher says really quickly in hope that Eddie didn’t hear it.

“I don’t need furniture.” I sigh dreamily. “I have everything I want right here in this room.”

Christopher twists his lips. “Hate to burst your bubble, Grumps, but you’re going to get sick of sitting on the floor real quick.”

I giggle. “This is true.”

We fall silent again.

“What do you think, Eddie?” Christopher slaps him on the back. “Do you like your new home?”

Eddie nods, he’s so overwhelmed.

I am too, actually.

This is a dream come true.

“I’m so happy.” I smile over at my beautiful man. “Like stupidly happy.”

Christopher’s eyes darken and then drop to my lips, he gives me the best come-fuck-me look of all time.

“Bedtime,” he mouths.

My skin prickles with excitement, it’s been way too long without him.

“You should probably put a movie on your iPad while you’re falling asleep,” Christopher tells Eddie. “Just so…you know, you don’t hear the farm animals.”

I roll my lips to hide my smile. There’s only one animal here.

“Would that be alright?” Eddie looks between us. “It won’t keep you up?”

Christopher widens his eyes at me. “I’m already up.”

Behave.

Eddie gets up and grabs his iPad and begins to scroll through. “Oh.” He frowns. “I don’t have internet.”

“Hot spot from my phone.” Christopher hands his phone straight over and hooks it up. He’ll do anything not to be heard tonight. “What movie do you want to watch?” he asks as he peruses the choices. “Get something that will really block out those animals. They are crazy loud.”

I giggle and kiss Eddie’s forehead. “I’ll leave you two to it, good night, baby.”

Eddie smiles up at me. “Good night, Hazen.”

I glance back from the door and watch Christopher and Eddie scroll through Netflix on the iPad and my heart swells.

I’m so happy I could burst.

I walk in and look around the master bedroom, it’s small and cozy with no en-suite bathroom, so unlike Christopher’s penthouse in London.

It’s a typical old farmhouse and out of scale to an extent. Some rooms are oversized and then the ones you think would be big are much smaller. Like the stairway and hallway are wide and grand, but then the master bedroom is smallish.