Page 107 of Until We Weren't

“I’ll text her,” Faith said. “I have the realtor’s info.”

“You were pretty sure of yourself,” Destiny said.

“I was sure of us,” Faith replied, sending the text. She put her phone back in her pocket and looked up at Destiny. “I could see us here.”

“Don’t get too far ahead,” Destiny warned. “Let’s see if we can afford it.”

Faith nodded. “Come on, babe. We have rocks waiting for us.” She took Destiny’s hand and they walked back to the truck. “I’m going to build you a special cairn. You'll see.”

Later that night Faith was still awake with Destiny pressed into her side. Her rhythmic breathing and quiet snore made Faith smile. They had an appointment with the realtor to tour the property tomorrow. She was confident they could make it work by combining their companies, consolidating their equipment, and moving into one place.

The thought of their dream becoming a reality made it hard for Faith to fall asleep. She’d been thinking about all they’d been through and how they’d gotten to this point.

When they were together before, Faith always had a sliver of doubt living in the back of her mind. It would remind her from time to time that she couldn’t trust anyone. Sooner or later the people she loved always let her down. Her love for Destiny was stronger than this ingrained doubt and she could usually push it away when it decided to come to the surface.

Living with something that picked away at the scars around her heart was exhausting. That’s why the video of Gloria had devastated her so. But the night the truth came out in that little shack, Faith’s mistrust and doubt disappeared. All along her heart knew she could trust Destiny and it won that night.

It crushed her to know she’d hurt Destiny so badly, but it also made her realize she could trust her heart. Since then her heart had been opened to imagine and believe the dreams they shared could really come true.

Faith wondered if Destiny had extinguished all her doubts. A smile grew on her face and she suddenly had an idea of exactly how to bury any doubts once and for all. She knew what to do and exactly where to do it.

She held Destiny a little tighter and kissed her forehead. Faith closed her eyes. There were nothing but sweet dreams in this bedroom tonight.

Faith and Destiny explained to the realtor what they were trying to accomplish and he put together a deal to sell both of their properties while they made an offer on the building. The sellers accepted their bid and the realtor went to work selling their properties while they went through the closing process on the new home for Fields of Green.

They were putting the final touches on the flower beds of the massive project when Faith walked over to where Destiny was working in the rock garden. “Hey, babe,” Faith said. “The fountain is working beautifully. It’s better than I imagined.”

“Oh, good, I’m finishing up a little design. What do you think?”

Faith looked over at the stacked rocks and smiled. “That looks great. Are we going to change the design when we mow and weed every week?”

“Of course,” Destiny replied. “We have to keep it fresh.”

“Maybe we should have rocks at the shop to practice with,” Faith said. “Some of these designs are interesting, but hard to do.”

Destiny stacked the last rock and looked up at Faith. “That’s a great idea. It could be a stress reliever for us and our teams, too.”

Faith tilted her head. “I don’t know about that,” she said warily. “They might want to throw the rocks at us instead of stacking them.”

Destiny laughed. “You have a point.” She got to her feet and looked around the garden. “I think it’s finished.”

“I’d like to walk around all three buildings one more time and be sure everything is as perfect as we can make it,” Faith said.

“Okay.”

“There are a couple of plants that don’t look good at the back of the main building,” Faith said. “Mark is going to change them out tomorrow and finish up with the mulch.”

“We can do our final walk-through after that,” Destiny said.

“How about we do it at sunset?” Faith’s heart began to speed up at the thought of what she had planned tomorrow for Destiny. Once the idea came to her she’d asked Mark, Amy, and Monica to help her with the surprise.

“At sunset?” Destiny said, turning to Faith.

“Yeah,” Faith said. “We love to watch the sunset together. Let’s do it here.”

“It can be our farewell to a job well done,” Destiny said.

“Yep, we’ll turn it over to the project manager the next day.”

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