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"Take your ti sure you’re okay"

As tee, she knew better She’d already had to take several hits of her inhaler She had no choice now but to wait until Abel left to get prepped for his fight in a few hours After washing her hands, she walked out and into the ar but beautiful boyfriend

"Are you sure you’re gonna be okay alone here when I leave? Maybe you should co "I’m fine, really It was just one asth with this my whole life Besides," she reminded him, "you need to warm up and all that I don’t wanna be in the way"

"You won’t be," he insisted

"No, you need that tiy talk you told me about" She touched his face "But I proside the entire fight"

Looking less than co because, Nell," he leaned his forehead against hers, "I meant it when I said that I need you there"

"I’ll be there," she promised then kissed him

Chapter 18

Nor there was a voiceht on theon outside their shelteredthe time often She still didn’t understand why no one else had contacted her or Abel if so had her naht of the decade like Eiven They were television snobs They both said they’d take gardening, cooking, reading, and even taking a stroll over sitting in front of the television, wasting mindless hours She didn’t even knohy they owned a television Even poor Gus was having to deal with the no television--or very limited in his case--rule in their house But Roni? Nellie was certain that Roni would’ve called by now It was the only hope she had that things weren’t so bad Still she couldn’t ignore the fact that both Logan and Saized so profusely

She walked into the bedroo sure she didn’t make any noise because Abel was on the phone with hisa hand at her It was his way of telling her that she didn’t have to be quiet, but Nellie knew better From all the stories she’d heard about how close he was to his mom, this was not a part of their relationship that she was looking forward to dealing with Bianca had once let it slip that she’d heard Abel e difference between Roni and Noah At the time, Bianca had no idea that Nellie had any interest in Abel, and she’d also ree with his e difference would never work This was one of the reasons she was so surprised that his feelings for her were as strong as he’d confessed them to be

As far as she knew, his e So Nellie was certain she’d have her hands full trying to win over Mrs Ayala

She didn’t miss the way Abel raised a soain as she walked out of the bathroom "Nellie, babe, will you hand hed Not only would his mother kno she was in his roo there without pants

"Nellie says hi, Mom," he said into his phone with a sed it, which only ," he said into the phone with a huge grin "Nellie was just tickling , Nellie picked up another pillow and threw it at hih o, Mom Nellie’s out of control Claro que si, Madre Sie, Nellie jumped on the bed and attacked him "I can’t believe you said that to her!" She squealed then laughed when he started tickling her "Oh hs "What did she say?"

"She told me to use protection"

Co because he was still tickling her, she continued to hopelessly fight him off her Within seconds, he had her pinned down and on top of her "Be a good girl or I’ll have to call my mom back and tell her hoild you are," he teased before kissing her softly

"How a"

"What," Abel s kisses down her neck "We’re both adults It’s not," he stopped to suck her neckher squirm, "like she doesn’t know you’ve beenshivers all the way down to her toes "She knows your ot Nellie’s attention "You told her?"

He stopped sucking her neck and looked up at her "Well, not in those exact words, but, yeah, I told her we’re together now"

Al she’d had been one big knot in her stoether so matter-of-factly and that he was so serious about it that he’d even told histo smile about "What did she say?"