Chapter 88 - PREPARING TO MOVE

[KYLE POV]

The rest of the meeting with Ezekiel's parents went smoothly. They accepted that we were not quite human and gave us all their blessings. I was glad that things were going so well right now.

I was still apprehensive right now though. We still had to worry about Jacy's cousins and whatever they might be planning. However, until that day comes I plan to be a loving and caring mate to my firecracker of a woman.

When we got back to my place I was glad to see that Jacy didn't put up much of a fight when I suggested she come back to my place. Ezekiel and Bastian had stayed behind at the Horne's estate and were going to spend the night in the guest house. They would be looking for another place to live soon but for now they were safe and happy there. Or so I guessed. I didn't know how Bastian felt about Ezekiel's particular style when it came to decorating.

Over the next couple of days Jacy and I managed to think about the stuff that we wanted to keep and the stuff that was going to be given away, donated, or tossed into the trash. She had been opposed to this at first but once I got her going on it things started to move pretty smoothly.

It seemed that neither of us had ever really been what you would call a pack rat. We had been very minimalist it seemed. We barely had anything that needed to be sorted through. Apparently we were both also very organized. Everything had its place and that made it easier to sort.

The new place had rooms that we could use for our own offices, complete with built in library shelves. We would be able to sort and separate our materials for work and the stuff that we considered personal.

My offer on the new condo had been immediately accepted. I requested expedited processing of our paperwork so that we could get the keys almost immediately. I wanted to start getting us moved in so that we could be settled as soon as possible.

This was the first step in my future with Jacy. This was the first permanent roots we were going to put down together. I wasn't going to let this opportunity slip past me. I was going to live with my mate. Eventually I was going to propose to her and we would get married. I know she probably didn't believe in that whole happily ever after stuff, but I was banking on it.

It only took three days to get all of our stuff packed up. We were taking a few pieces of furniture but for most of it we had gone and picked out some new things that we both agreed on. We had similar styles already, we just needed to mix the two together.

We spent the first day in our new place setting it all up. The furniture had already been delivered so it didn't take us too long. We had only focused on our bedroom, the offices, the living room, the dining room, and the kitchen. Everything else we would take care of as time progressed.

There was one thing that I just couldn't get over though. The master suite, the bedroom that would be mine would also be Jacy's. It was going to be our room. I was going to be sharing a room with the only woman I ever thought of a future with. How much luckier could I get?

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Honestly, I was happy that things went so well when Kyle and Bastian met Laurell and Bechard. I really was. It's just that I was kind of waiting for them to get the same third degree that the girls got when they brought guys home.

My only guess was that Sapphire, Emerald, and Amethyst were always jumping from guy to guy when they were younger. That meant that Laurell and Bechard couldn't get too attached or comfortable with any of them.

They were right too. When they said that Kyle was the first guy I brought to meet them. He was also the first guy I have even been with more than just one night since they met me, since I was eighteen really. Well, aside from that brief time that I tried dating Lucian.

This was just as new to me as it was them. And then there was the fact that Kyle was kind of rushing things a little. Yeah, I had given him the go ahead and I wasn't going to back out, but moving into a new condo together was a bit much.

He had a point though. We didn't have much time. We needed to get things ready over the next few months so that it's done in time.

GAHH! This is going to be insane. I can't believe that I am going to have a baby. It was so hard to believe that I often caught myself putting a hand to my belly to see if I could feel something, anything that would make it seem real.

It was too soon for that though. Even if I was a little farther along I wouldn't know what I was feeling if I even felt anything. I mean, what exactly was I going to feel when the baby grew inside of me? What was it going to feel like when the baby kicked or moved?

I didn't know the first thing about being a mom. I barely knew anything about kids in general and all that was from watching the kids back home from time to time plus the little I learned about Annaleise and Walker. I would probably kill my kid with my incompetence. My poor kid isn't going to stand a chance at all with a mother like me.

I had spent a few days packing and clearing out my old place with Kyle. There wasn't a lot for me to do except for my office and my bedroom. I always stored a copy of the case files for all the bounties that I caught. I may not have very many trails that led back to me but I am still capable of record keeping for myself.

Our major issue with the new place was going to be figuring out where to put everything. We didn't have to worry about taking our things like couches and beds. Kyle wanted this to be a whole new life for the two of us. A whole new life deserved a whole new truckload of stuff delivered and set up by the highly paid movers, or that was what Kyle tried to explain to me.

In all honesty I think he just wanted an excuse to buy something for me. Still, it had been a little bit fun to go to the store and pick out a bunch of new furniture that we could both agree on. And best of all, I had plenty of storage in my new office so I didn't have to have the filing cabinets overflowing anymore. That was a major plus for me. 

Another thing that I needed to adjust to was the fact that I was going to be sharing a room with Kyle every night. I had been sleeping in the safe bed with him for several days by the time we moved in together but it hadn't been a shared room.

Now though, it was going to be a mutual space for us. He could come and go as he pleased and so could I. We were going to share closets and a bathroom. We were going to have long talks while laying in bed.

Oh Goddess, help me please. I don't know how to do this whole domestic kind of life. Was I supposed to cook for him if I wasn't at work? Was I supposed to be like those little housewives that fluttered around the house making sure that everything was perfectly cleaned and polished?

Shit, was he going to expect me to meet him at the door when he got home from work? And was I expected to be there at the door every morning to give him a goodbye kiss?

All I could think about was the types of housewives you saw on old black and white TV shows. I'm sorry, no offense to Kyle, but that just wasn't me.

We could have a mutual life here where we did things equally or we could have nothing at all. I may have admitted that I am falling in love with him, I may even already be in love with him, but a happy little house bitch I will not be. No thank you.

"Jacy? Are you alright? You look like you are thinking about something pretty hard?" Kyle called out to me while we were putting the files for my office into the many rows of drawers.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I was just lost in thought like you said. It was nothing important.." I smiled at him and slid another file into place.