Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates novel Chapter 101

Lia

She nudges my arm. “You’re happy though, right?”

I lift my head, meeting her gaze. The teasing is gone now, replaced with something softer.

I hesitate, then nod. “Yeah.”

She smiles. “Then that’s all that matters.”

Michael walks back in, scowling. “Are you done?”

Gabi grins. “Never.”

He groans, pinching the bridge of his nose. “I hate both of you.”

I smirk. “Love you too, big brother.”

It was glad that Gabi was smiling and at ease now. She had suffered so much. Finally, she was starting to move on from the kidnapping, little by little.

However, I was starting to realize that Simone was right. I did want to consider sharing a room with the four or having a room where we could spend our time together. Then we would all have our own spaces.

There simply wasn’t enough room here—especially with my brother and Gabi here. Then there would be the pups! By the time the pups came, there wasn’t going to be any room.

“We need to get a bigger house,” I blurted out after a while.

Michael blinked. “Oh funny you say that. The house next door has several bedrooms, even a furnished basement. I was thinking we could use some of the money Mom and Dad left us to buy it. Then you guys could move it.”

“But what about you and Gabi?”

“We stay here,” he said chuckling. “Simone and her mates could even move in. Gabi and I were talking about furnishing the basement. They could stay there and there would be plenty of room for any pups they had.”

It was such a great idea. The Moonveil pack would be able to live close to each other. We wouldn’t have to be miles apart, something that I always hated.

Well, it was mostly Simone and her mates who lived apart from us. She had been brought up wanting to be closer and this was our perfect chance to be able to do that.

I smiled. “I’ll have to talk to Simone, but I think she’ll be fine with it.”

“Well, go talk to her the first chance you get, and then ask her.”

“I will.”

I already knew she was going to say yes, but it still was important that I ask her.

***

The next day I decided to ask Simone to come over to my place. She told me she was more than happy to come over and drive to my place, joining me in my room. Simone brought some coffee with her, making me more than grateful.

“Thank you so much for the coffee,” I told Simone, taking a sip of the cool liquid. “Ready for me to tell you the good news?”

She grinned. “Yes! I’ve been trying to wrack my brain, figuring out what the hell it is you want to tell me but then I realized… I am bad at guessing. So I figured all I could do was just show up and wait to see what you had to say.”

I smiled. “We’re buying the house next door. After we moved in, Michael suggested that you and your mates move in. Then we’ll all be close to one another, which sounds like such an amazing idea. What do you think?”

For a while, Simone didn’t say anything. Her jaw dropped and then tears pooled in her eyes, but I knew they were happy tears. She sniffed, rubbing at her eyes.

It seemed like a part of her thought that it was too good to be true, but I wanted to convey to my best friend that I was completely serious. This was going to happen.

“Lia, you’re joking.”

“I’m not.”

“You-you’re seriously buying the house next door?”

“Yeah.”

“Like, actually buying it?”

“Yes, Simone, that’s what I just said.”

Simone let out a high-pitched squeal. “Oh my God. Oh my God! Lia, do you realize what this means?”

I smirked. “I have a feeling you’re about to tell me.”

She grabbed my hands, eyes practically sparkling. “It means I can move in! We can be literal next-door neighbors! Do you know how perfect this is?”

I laughed. “That’s kind of the idea. I mean… you and your mates need more space, right?”

“Oh, I will. And you know what else this means?”

“That you’re going to barge into my house uninvited?”

“Obviously. But also-impromptu movie nights! Midnight snack raids! Borrowing clothes without asking!”

“Simone.”

“Too far?”

“A little.”

“Noted. But still-this is the best news ever.”

“I’m glad you think so.”

“Think so? I know so. And the best part?”

“There’s more?”

She grinned. “You can’t get rid of me now.”

I smirked. “I think I made peace with that a long time ago.”

After everything that had happened with us, it was good to know that things were finally settling in at the Moonveil pack. When we first started the pack, everything was so stressful because of all this shit going on with the Rosewater coven but now we could breathe a sigh of relief.

I was so thrilled to be able to move on and with my pack so close too. It was going to be a busy few weeks with us buying the house. Then came the packing followed by moving in.

But I was ready for it as well.

Simone and I hung out, both of us having silly grins on our faces. When she left, I knew it was going to be easier for us to hang out in just a few weeks.

I couldn’t wait for it to happen.