All Chapters of The Bucket List : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

“Should I be worried?” Severide’s eyes dropped to the glass in my hand and then darted back up to mine.“I didn’t think you noticed.”“I noticed,” he muttered. “You’ve already had three, and I think that’s more than enough.”“Are you scared that you’ll have to send me back to—”“Yes,” he interrupted. “I already lost Albany. I don’t want to lose you, too.”“You haven’t lost Albany,” I told him.Walking over to him, I placed my glass down on the coffee table in front of him and took his empty glass to refill for myself. Instead of taking a seat on the couch across from him, I sank down on the opposite end of the one he was sitting on.“What if I can’t do it?” Severide asked after a few minutes of silence. “What if I can’t prioritize?”“Somehow I have a feeling that it’s not the only thing bothering you,” I muttered. “What does Kat want?”Severide leaned forward and picked up his glass. Taking a sip, he leaned back and rested the glass on his thigh as he looked at me. His eyes darted ove

I had thought of the future, but not as far ahead as Albany.I never thought about having kids or living on my own or doing anything other than teaching at the University. Teaching was something I actually loved doing, but if I had to be honest, it wasn’t something I wanted to do for the rest of my life.But I had no idea what I wanted to do if I gave up teaching.Like Albany pointed out, I needed to think about something other than the now. It was what I was doing as I sat behind my desk and waited for the next lecture to start. I pulled a notebook out from my drawer and grabbed a random pen.Think about the future, I wrote as the heading. The longer I sat there, the more my brows dipped into a frown because I couldn’t fucking think of one thing.Muttering under my breath, I dropped the pen and leaned back in the chair. My eyes darted around as my mind trailed back to the day Albany came to see me. I’d promised her that we’d fuck on my desk, but was that ever going to happen?Shaking

There was nothing more refreshing than having a glass of freshly made lemonade on a hot day. The place was buzzing with people, which was supposed to be great, but I honestly just wanted a five-minute break to catch my breath.I wasn’t complaining, honestly, but my feet were killing me.“Hey, Albany.”Lowering the glass, I turned to face Megan, who had just entered my office. She’d only just started working at my bakery, and I already loved her. Megan was the youngest among the three of us, but she had a big head on those slim shoulders of hers. She knew what she was doing, and a bonus was the fact that she actually knew how to bake.“What can I do for you?” I asked her.Colour flooded her cheeks when our eyes locked. “There’s a customer who wants some brownies, but there are no more brownies left.”“Try to get them to buy the muffins or something else that’s similar to the brownies.”She clasped her hands together in front of her body and gave me a small smile. “I already tried that.

I leaned back in the chair but kept my eyes glued to the group playing around in the pool. Albany was on top of Steven’s shoulders, trying to throw Severide from Thomas’s shoulders. Her laughter echoed around the backyard.My lips curled up into a smile as happiness exploded inside my chest. I couldn’t believe we waited so long to get her back. While I was ready, the others weren’t. We also had no clue whether Thomas was planning to come back or not. It wouldn’t have been right to start our relationship again without him.Taking a sip of my beer, I rested the bottle on my thigh as I glanced around. The house was big enough for all of us to have our own space, and the backyard was perfectly set up for the kids we might have one day. Severide bought the house, but had it torn down to build the house Steven had designed especially for all of us.My eyes snapped to the pool again when I heard a splash. Albany resurfaced a few seconds later and glared at Thomas and Severide, who were cheer

I looked up when my brother entered the room. “Late night?”“Yeah,” Thomas sighed. “I wanted to finish as much as I could before the holidays.”“You don’t sound very happy about the fact that we’ll be spending Christmas with our wife,” I muttered.He rolled his eyes and walked over to the small fridge in the corner of the room to grab a can of soda. It was our secret stash of everything unhealthy since Kieran always replaced the food with healthy alternatives in the kitchen.“It’s not that I’m not excited,” he said as he took a seat next to me. “I’m just not sure if I can go the whole month without working.”“You didn’t work when we took that trip to the farm,” I pointed out.“I did. You just didn’t know about it,” Thomas said as he smirked at me. “Where did they come up with the idea for Albany month?”“Albany month?” I chuckled. “I like that. Apparently, it was something she said about spending Christmas together with just the four of us.”“Actually, it was because she had never cel