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Well, this is the last chapter. It just didn't come to me like I thought it was. All my ideas are for something new. LOL. I hope you enjoyed the story despite how short. :D

Chapter 10

I didn't expect it to happen so easily. That moment. It was beautiful. We became a pair. A couple. Just like that. It wasn't like being in a new relationship at all. I mean I have nothing to compare it to. I'd never been in anything serious. But that was serious. From the very beginning. I cared for Ellie. From the moment I gazed into her eyes. It was like she was supposed to be mine. We were meant to be and all we had to do was find each other.

Did we screw around that night? Yeah, I know that's the question you have on your mind. The answer is no. We didn't jump right into that. It was a deeper connection. We talked. Laughed. Made plans. We watched movies.

Oh, how I loved to see her laugh. It brought light to my life. And that light went away when she was gone too long. I felt different. But it was a good different. I've never felt so secure and elated. Just completely free of all burdens. No stress. No anxiety. I only had butterflies when she would brush her hair off her shoulders. When I thought about daring to think that she was mine. I wanted to bring up the subject and I always chickened out because I was so scared I was imagining everything. This feeling was like being high and I really didn't want to come down from it. So I said nothing. I never tried to define us and soon I had lived a month feeling this way.

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We made plans for the facility renovations on our own. We studied websites. Books. Newspapers. Phone calls. Drawing expansions. Knocking out penciled walls on paper. We laughed and groaned about the same things. It was no easy tasks and of course Nurse Alice was there to tell us how stupid we were. I know I had no reason to keep the woman on the payroll but I kind of liked watching her ears pour smoke. Every day she asked why the clinic wasn't open. She called me lazy. She said I had no right to deny seeing patients. I waited a few weeks to let her know that I owned the facility and that Ellie and I were going to turn it into something much better. People were going to the big city for help anyway. They were still against me. I didn't care but I was extremely protective of Ellie. They were harsh to her. The looks they gave us when we walked into the diner to eat. The snide comments. They were so rude.

"You know what?" I just couldn't take the way the servers acted. One night I just stood up and plopped money on the table. "Small towns are supposed to be so great. They are supposed to be filled with good people and old fashioned values. But in the big city, a waiter would treat every customer kindly. No matter what they thought. We eat here every day. That adds up in the till and tips. That ends now. We can cook for ourselves."

Well I could only cook a few things but I would live off that forever if I had to. Enough was enough. I just couldn't take any more of that childish bullshit.

The waitress laughed at me. "If you're thinking losing your business is going to hurt us you need to look around Mister. We don't really care to serve sinners."

"Sinners?" I laughed and took Ellie's hand and led her from her seat. "No one's told you I guess?"

"Told me what?"

"It's not your job to judge."

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Roman was having a really hard time ignoring people in town and honestly so was I. I didn't plan to stick around. I knew why I did. For Roman. He was so wonderful that I didn't even hesitate when he asked me to move into the cabin with him.

Together we renovated the clinic. It was a beautiful elderly home. People came from miles around to occupy the rooms and it didn't take long for people of our town to move their family members in when the time came. It was the best job I ever had. Filled with laughter and people just really enjoying life. I got to take residents on outings in town. They got to shop and eat out. And they said their stay there was better than any other facility they had ever lived.

Two years later. Roman and I had our wedding there. Five years later we bought the land next door and now ten years later we have private cottages for the elderly to rent along with a club and a swimming pool. The business is growing and so is our love.

I see my ex from time to time. He's bald now. He's lost that muscle and he looks really unhappy. You see he hasn't found any else and his true nature has been revealed by every woman he's been considered serious with. I guess the truth has a way of coming out. He didn't take the sheriff's job. The town hired someone from two towns over instead.

Everything happens for a reason and everything turns out how it should.

I'm glad I went through all I did. If it didn't I wouldn't be as happy as I am now.