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“We’ve been living together for months,” Dex reminded her.

“Yeah, but you’re buying a house together. That’s serious. Next thing you know, it’ll be the pitter patter of little feet.” She stood up from the table and took her empty plate to the kitchen.

Dex met Seo-jun’s eyes. They both knew what the other was thinking. The subject had gone unsaid, but the time was coming where they would have to have a conversation. Were they crazy to be thinking it? How could they make it work?

“Don’t let her scare you off,” Kasey said. “You and Seo-jun are adorable together.”

“I can’t be scared off,” Dex assured her. “I know what I want, and that’s a life with Seo-jun.”

“Aww,” Kasey said, playfully poking Dex in the side.

Minutes later, the sound of the front door closing made Dex look up from the files he was going over with Jase in time to see his family entering the room.

Dex made introductions and was pleased that Kasey and Anna seemed to get on well. Scooping his nephew out of his sister’s arm, he cradled him in his arms and made faces at him.

“He’s so cute!” Kasey gushed. “Look at all that black hair.”

Sky had eyes a similar color to Dex’s, which he was proud of.

“He’s gotten so big since I saw him last,” he said.

“Let me hold him,” Seo-jun said, and Dex passed Sky over to him.

“Oh, my God, why does he look so hot holding a baby?” Kasey whispered to Dex.

“Right?” he whispered back.

Seo-jun’s biceps bulged beneath the sleeves of his black t-shirt as he adjusted Sky in his arms. Looking down into the baby’s face, he spoke to him like Sky was a tiny adult.

“My ovaries just exploded,” Kasey murmured.

“We’re going to be late,” Bea said. “Seo-jun told me we’re meeting the realtor at the first house at ten. That leaves us fifteen minutes to get there.”

“All right, all right,” Dex said. “Let’s go.”

Anna took Sky from Seo-jun, and they went out to Seo-jun’s car.

Chapter Forty-three: Seo-jun

“Do you think it was my mother’s presence, or was it just that all the houses looked better in the spring than they did in the winter?” Dex asked as he lay in Seo-jun’s arms in their king-sized bed.

“Who cares? We found a house.” They’d looked at six the first day Bea arrived, and another five the next day. On the third day, the very first house the realtor showed them caught both Seo-jun and Dex’s attention. It had two floors, a sunroom at the back of the house that was perfect for Seo-jun to have as many plants as he wanted, a newly remodeled state-of-the-art kitchen, three spacious bedrooms, two and a half baths, a fireplace, and a fenced-in yard with a deck. The house was fifteen minutes from work, had a two-car garage, and beautiful hardwood floors. There was a neighbor to the left of them, but not too close, and only dense woods to the right. Seo-jun thought it was perfect.

They were moving in the following day.

Now to address the elephant in the room.

“Your mother says Anna’s talking about putting the baby up for adoption,” Seo-jun said softly. At Dex’s stricken look, Seo-jun added, “I think I’m speaking for both of us when I say we can’t let that happen.”

Dex’s eyes warmed as they stared at each other. “How? Our jobs…”

“We’ll stagger our cases. When that’s not possible, we’ll find someone perfect to come here. We’ll make it work.”

Dex brushed a lock of Seo-jun’s hair out of his eyes. “And you want this? Really? You’re not just doing it for me?”

“I want this,” Seo-jun said. He’d never meant anything so much in his life.”

“Pi-vot!” Sean yelled as he, Colt, and Saint carried the couch up the stairs of the new house. Seo-jun and Dex had decided to put it in the den and order a new couch for the living room.

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