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Chapter 16 - Wes
“Are you sure you don’t want me to come in with you?” I asked as I parked in front of Cody’s therapist’s office. “I can reschedule with the realtor.”
He smiled and shook his head. “Remember what my therapist said last week? It’s time for me to start facing these fears without you right there.”
“You’ll call if it’s too much?”
He nodded. “I will. But don’t worry about me. We need to get a date for closing, that way we can start redecorating.”
I grinned. Of course he was looking forward to redecorating. It was part of making the house we were buying our home.
It turned out that Donna had enough connections—due to managing so many houses—that she had even better insight than most realtors about who on Billionaire Row was considering selling.
And it just so happened that the house I’d stayed at was one that was silently on the market, if you knew the right people.
As soon as Cody and I found that out, we went right into negotiations. That house was special, it was where we’d finally come together. We’d even decided that it was the perfect place to get married.
Which meant that we were on a time crunch. Cody didn’t want to be hugely pregnant as he walked down the aisle, and while we weren’t doing major renovations, there was enough to do with sprucing up the place that every day counted.
I leaned across the center console to accept a kiss, then watched until Cody disappeared into the building.
Once he was out of sight I pulled back onto the road and headed down a few blocks to the realtor’s office, where she supposedly had the last of the forms that needed to be signed before a closing date could be scheduled.
A few minutes later my realtor was indicating where I should sign.
“I’ll fax this to his realtor,” she said as she collected the papers. “Then we can schedule a closing date.”
“Fantastic,” I replied. “Anything else?”
She shook her head. “I’ll call you with a closing date as soon as I have it.”
“I look forward to your call.”
She grinned. “You and your mate will be in your new home before you know it.”
“I like the sound of that.”
We shook hands then I returned to the car. When I saw that I still had twenty minutes before I needed to pick up Cody I decided to check my email.
Of course I grinned at the first email I read, which indicated that thanks to Cody, they’d tracked down and started fixing a number of bugs.
It was something he’d be happy to hear, since he still insisted on working until closer to his due date.
∞∞∞
It was a beautiful fall day as ‘Here Comes the Omega’ started playing and our guests stood.
I was nervous, the past twenty-four hours were the longest Cody and I had been apart since mating. Even when I’d gone back to help transition the office to mostly remote, he’d either accompanied me, or I’d flown back the same evening.
Had he handled the separation well? Or was he a mess at our first real trial apart?
He rounded the back row of seats, and my heart leapt into my throat.
Cody was absolutely radiant in a cream-colored suit. It was tailored to show-off, rather than hide his five-month baby bump, and part of me wanted to forego the ceremony and get right to the honeymoon.
There was no way I’d be able to keep my hands off him for the two weeks we’d planned in Bali. Not with the memory of his smile and the confident way he carried himself.
I knew my gorgeous mate would never be able to completely rid himself of the fears that had nearly kept us apart, but the more he faced them, the more the man whom he’d been hiding from the world revealed himself.
