Chapter 275
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I could not believe that they had done all of this for me.
We spent the next few hours eating, dancing, and laughing. I did not think the night could get any better,
but then it did.
James pulled me aside.
“Sweetheart, I don’t know if you noticed the colors of the decorations…
“They are beautiful,” I told him. And they were. They were two different colors of blue, plus white and
silver.
“There are two reasons that I had them go with this color scheme,” James explained. “I know your favorite colors are more fall colors, but I was worried that if we went with those, it would remind you too much of what happened on your 14th birthday. So I went instead with this color scheme, which just so
happens to match the gift that I got you.”
“James, you did not have to get me–
“Stop. Yes, I did. I have many years of birthdays to make up for missing. But if makes you feel any better, the gift is for both of us really. It will also come in handy for our next business adventure.”
I wrinkled my eyebrows. “What are you talking about?”
James handed me two envelopes. I opened the first one, and it was a deed reflecting the recent purchase.
of a building in Ravenswood.
I looked up at James and he was smiling ear to ear. “That is the deed for the building where your old apartment was. We… you… now own the building. We can go back to the apartment any time we want, and
any time we are in town.”
I smiled right back at him, but I was still a little confused. “Why?”
“That is the apartment where you told me that you loved me for the first time. It is also the apartment that we mated and marked in for the first time. I could not bear to lose it, so… I bought it.”
“James, that had to cost so much money….”
“The pack is doing much better financially. All of our old trade agreements have been restored, and we have actually been able to secure a few new ones. Plus, having an apartment building in Ravenswood
makes sense, because…”
James paused and grimaced.
“What?”
“I know we are supposed to make all big decisions about the pack together, but I have been thinking a lot about how we need to diversify our investments so that we are more protected for the future…”
“And?”
“And Charlotte and her dad helped me convince the Wolf Packers to sell me a 15% stake in the team,”
James blurted out.
I could tell he thought I was going to be angry with him; I am definitely the far more financially
conservative one between us. But instead of being angry with him, I decided to top his surprise with one
of my own.
“I hope one of the larger apartments in the building is vacant,” I said simply.
“Why?”
“Because we are going to need more space.”
“For?”
“You, me, and our pup.”
I watched as James processed what he just told me. “What? How?”
“I don’t think I need to tell you the how…”
“No, but we haven’t been trying?”
I laughed. “I said the same thing to Rose when I found out yesterday. She said it was sort of embarrassing
that with as much unprotected sex as we have been having and all my medical training, I could even ask.
She said it is a miracle that we are not already on our fourth pup by now.”
James picked me up and twirled me around in excitement.
“I love you so much,” he said when he finally put me down.
“I love you too, James.”
And that is how the second part of our story finally started.
The takeovers may have marked the end of our first story, but this pup and our new life would officially
mark the second one. The better one. The one I had always dreamed of.
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