Page 54 of Reclaiming Home

Icould feel the moon tugging at my wolf throughout the day. Kye and I did some of the renovation planning and even lugged out some trash to make room to work later on.

Then we sat in the kitchen, talking about what we were going to need for the house, starting from colors of paint and wallpapers, and of course, furniture. We’d also decided that since we wanted to pull the old carpet anyway, we’d see if we could salvage any of the wooden floors beneath. We wanted wooden floors and a lot of rugs instead of a carpet.

We made lists and had lunch, and I thought we were done with listing stuff for now, but Carys was eyeing the iPad as we came to the end of the lunch.

“Something on your mind?” I asked gently, when Kye got up to take the dishes to the sink.

“Uh,” she said, suddenly shy for some reason. “I just….”

I ducked my head to make eye contact with her. “Carys? This is your home, too. If there’s something specific you think we should have, then we put it for a vote, like everything else.”

She nodded and a quick, small smile flitted through her expression. “There’s this website that does all sorts of wallpapers. I was thinking we might want some of those?”

“Can you show me?”

She took the iPad and opened the browser. I made eye contact with Kye who was smiling at me from the sink. He made the heart sign with his fingers, then turned to rinse the dishes.

I never had a chance, did I? Even if he wasn’t my mate, I would be falling for this man. Falling for the siblings in different ways.

After growing up in this house, in Rusty’s pack, there hadn’t been many good influences especially after Mom died and Bella ran away. Some of the women had tried to parent me, but it had been more for show than anything real.

There’d been drugs, then more drugs, and finally I’d ran away with the knot of guilt forming in my chest for leaving Ben and Max behind.

Carys’s enthusiastic tone broke my musings. “Okay, here. I was thinking we could use this for the big wall in the family room.”

She turned the iPad my way, and I immediately smiled. The wallpaper had an illustration of woods that were darker and deeper in some parts, but here and there, there were animals. A deer, some rabbits, a wolf, a fox. The best thing was it didn’t look like a kids’ room wallpaper at all.

“That’s gorgeous,” I said honestly. “Kye, come see this.”

He wiped his hands and came to stand next to me.

“Oh wow. That is really nice. That’s a good pick, Carys!” He squeezed her shoulder. “Did you have others in mind?”

She blushed and with a speed that told us she’d definitely been browsing this store a lot found us another one. It was a sort of tropical plants and birds kind of thing.

“I was thinking, maybe for my room and the sunroom, whenever we fix that?”

“That’s a neat idea,” I murmured and raised a brow at Kye. “Didn’t you say you wanted plant stuff in the sunroom?”

He nodded and smiled. “Yeah, and that as a backdrop would be great.”

“Once we have the measurements of what we need, we can order those. Can you figure out anything else, like if you want something in the other rooms and even the main bedroom?”

“Oh, I think that should be decided by you two—”

“Nonsense,” Kye’s tone was easygoing. “You clearly have an eye on this stuff, so you figure it out. I can’t decorate and I’m pretty sure that Alpha here can’t either.”

Carys looked so damn pleased, and contentment rushed through me. The wolf, concentrated on the moon as it was right then, felt content, too.

Kye grabbed some first aid supplies while I carried a blanket, and we went outside.

“Are you sure this is where you want to be for this?” I asked him, the rising moon calling to my wolf as we made our way on the path to the riverside.

“You said it was your favorite place on the property. Of course I want you to bite me there,” he replied as if it was a given.

I wasn’t sure what I’d done in a past life to deserve him, but I wasn’t going to complain.

It didn’t take long to get there. His hand was in mine, which felt good for various reasons, including the fact that I could make sure he stayed upright on the uneven path.

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