Page 52 of My Unexpected Mate
I nodded and went to sit on a couch in the living room.
We spent the day watching movies and eating lunch Nick’s mom made for us.
At 5:45 we left my house to get the girls. Finally,
Aria’s POV
I didn’t really have a lot of stuff. It took me about 30 minutes to pack everything that I own. I brought my clothes and a few items that were in our safe. Everything else was lost in a fire.
Not Annie, though. We woke up around 9:30 am and she hasn’t stopped talking about the clothes she was going to bring to Gabriel’s house. Around 11 am I wanted to put a spell on her to stop her from speaking and running around the house. She was giving me a headache.
It is 3 pm now and we are sitting in her room going through her shoes.
“Do you think the closet will be big enough?” she whined.
“What if there is no closet?” I smirked.
She looked at me with a horrified expression on her face. I laughed hard.
“Do not even joke about that!” she yelled. “My clothes and shoes can’t live in a suitcase or on the floor. They need a spacious closet.”
She talked about clothes and shoes like living things. It was funny.
“I am sure Gabriel has a closet for you,” I said. “And you can keep the stuff you can’t fit in mine. I don’t have anything to put in a closet anyway.”
“For now,” she winked at me. “We will go shopping and fix that.”
“My money doesn’t grow on trees.”
“You can always ask Gabriel,” she said, looking at different shoes to bring. “I have a feeling he would give you everything he owns anyway.”
Was she crazy? I was having enough trouble living with her and figuring out how to pay her. And she was my friend. How could I live with a stranger and take money from him?
“Are you insane?” I said. “I will have enough problems with rent, and you want me to take more money from him?”
“What rent?” she asked and looked at me with a shocked expression.
I frowned at her. “You didn’t think we would live there for free, did you?”
“Um, yeah,” she said. “I am not giving him money. He is the one who wanted us there and safe.”
“Well, I am going to pay rent as long as we are there,” I said and crossed my arms. “I was going to pay you as well.”
She smiled at me like I am a child who did a silly thing.
“I wouldn’t take it. And Gabriel won’t take it either,” she said confidently.
I frowned and stared at her. After helping her pack for a whole day, I didn’t have any energy left to fight with her. I was paying rent and that was final. If he won’t take it, I will put it in his account.
“Do I bring the red ones or the blue ones?” She interrupted my thinking.
I looked at the shoes she was pointing at.
“Annie, his house is like 10 minutes away. You can come back and take whatever you need,” I sighed.
“I know. But I love them all and want them to come with me,” she whined.
“You do know that they are not alive, right?” I smirked.