Claimed (The Flash Gold Chronicles, #4) (15 page)

“Who
else
would I porch sit with?” Kali demanded, throwing her hands in the air. “And it’d be a
deck
, not a porch. An airship deck. I thought we had that all figured on already. You and me. In the future.” She finally lowered her hands, though the stare she pinned him with wasn’t any less exasperated. “A porch. You see anyone around here with a porch?”

Cedar probably shouldn’t have grinned, but he couldn’t help himself. His timing didn’t matter. She wanted to sit with him. Just him. His grin broadened as he answered her question. “No, ma’am.”

Odd, Kali didn’t appear nearly as serene as he felt as the Mounties dragged him around the corner. He couldn’t stop grinning. He felt like... the world finally made sense.

THE END

Look for the final novella in the Flash Gold Chronicles later this fall.