Thursday, 10th November 2022

"That's it," Jamie said, peeling potatoes.

"What's it?"

"You're officially in your house now, you live here, you have a home."

Roy felt it like a punch to the solar plexus but it was like the moment he'd first held Pheobe and not like the moment he'd opened his door to find Ruth crying on his doorstep with Phoebe asleep in the car seat.

"I do."

"Want to christen the place?"

"We have fucked in every room," Roy told him.

"That was before it was officially your home."

Roy rolled his eyes. "I'll fuck you over the back of the couch after dinner."

Jamie beamed at him. "Mint."

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