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This was going to drive me nuts but I tried not to focus on it right now. I had some

shopping to do and he had clients to meet. But once our dust settled, I knew we would

work out what ever was on Jacob Blacks mind.

Jacob dropped me off at the store that was only about 3 blocks away from his office.

Before I got out of the car we kissed slowly and deliberately and when we finished I

placed the palm of my hand to Jacob's cheek and to cup his face. He looked up when he

caught the gaze of my eyes, I told him.

"I love you Jacob", he leined in and kissed me tenderly then he turned his head so his

lips were in the palm of my hand and he kissed there as well. I could feel and see his

smile inside my hand as he softly said "I know."

He pressed his lips once again to my hand and I lowered it. "I'll text you when I done ok."

He smiled my smile before he got out and walked around the front of the car to open my

door.

Once I was out I reached my arms up and placed them around his neck and pulled him

down for a kiss. He softly kissed me back and we both moaned into each others mouth.

He broke the kiss this time and softly said "Bella baby, I really have to get going."

" I know, I'm just missing you already, that's all" I told him back in a whisper.

he smiled and responded "I'll be back before you know it."

I reluctantly let him go and he walked back over to the drivers side and before he pulled

off he gave me a reassuring smile through the passenger window and I watched him pull

off after he'd checked for traffic.

As I walked toward the store I felt my phone buzzing in my purse so I retrieved it. It was

a text from Jake.

B 4 U no it –

I texted back

I k – I luv U

I had a good two and a half hours to shop so I didn't have to rush. I took my time and

looked at the items in each isle. I was glad Jacob suggested grocery shopping because I

didn't realize just how much stuff I needed until I started shopping.

When I got to the isle where the sugar was I couldn't help but blush at Jakes antics this

morning and I thought to myself. 'Hmmm maybe I should just conveniently forget to buy

more sugar. Make him take a little bit of me in the morning to sweeten his cup.'

By the time I was done I had a basket full of item. I was careful not to get too many cold

items because I knew we had one more stop to make before returning home. I saved

picking up the colder items until very last. I purchased a thermo insulated bag to place

my cold items because it had a guarantee of keeping the items cold for up to 90 minutes.

Which was perfect.

I was in the check out line when my phone buzzed again. When I checked my phone I

noticed I had 2 missed calls. I hadn't even heard my phone ring. I went to the text

message first just in case it was Jake and it was.

Hi hun finished how much longr

In check out C U in about 15

Perfect P U up at same spot

ok

My items were bagged and ready to go in about 10 mins. I made my way with the basket

of groceries to just outside the store so I could see Jake when he arrived. As I sat on the

bench that was near by. I retreived my phone curious about the other 2 calls. One call was

from my friend Angela and the other was from Jessica. Angela had left me a voice mail.

So I pushed in my code and listened.

'Hey bella just calling to see how things are with ya. Call or text me when you get this

message. Want to do lunch one day this week. Love you. Bye.'

I quickly texted back that I would love to do lunch and I asked her to let me know when

she was available. Just as I finished the message I looked up and there was Jake getting

out of the car and heading for me. I got excited and I smiled as I saw him walking

towards me. I stood up to greet him but as he got closer he looked a little worried. He

grabbed a few of the bags and I asked him how his meeting went with his clients.

"good, I got the contract. I was a little late but Leah handled things til I got there"

"that's great news Jake" I exclaimed really excited.

"yeah, it is" and he smiled but then his smile faded and he asked "who was that?"

It took me a minute to understand what he was asking. "who was what?" I responded

back then it clicked "oh you mean on the phone. I was texting Angela about doing lunch

sometime this week."

Once I said this I noticed his mood lighted tremendously but I didn't say anything more.

Jake loaded the last of the groceries into his SUV and I started to push the cart towards

the store. I noticed one of the workers coming towards me to assist. He took the

basket from me "I'll take care of that for you ma'am" he pleasantly said and I politely

smiled and handed him the cart and told him thank you.

Jacob held the door open for me and waited until I was situated in before closing. I was

getting more excited by the minute at the thought of seeing the house. We had plenty of

time. It was only 1:15 and the house was only about 15 mins away.

Jake hoped in the car and leaned over to kiss me. "see told ya! Before you know it" he

told me then straightened up and put the car in gear. As we headed toward the house I

thought about his contract that he'd managed to get. "Baby, I'm so excited for you. I

know you were really hoping to get that contract"

"yeah I was glad. After I presented him with my cost effective way of building his

prototype wire harness, I had them hooked. The contract is small but there's still a lot of

money involved. That's actually what makes this one perfect because as you know my

facility is not that large. Once I finish the contract I'll be able reinvest some of the money

to expand the facility. I've already looked at a little larger place in the same building I'm

in right now. It's perfect for the expansion. And when Embry starts helping me I'll be

able to go after some larger contracts."

Jacob was absolutely beaming as he spoke about his plans and goals for the business.

"hey, I haven't heard from Em, in a while. How's he doing? Have you heard anything

from him? I know he' probably been living it up since graduation. I know he's glad those

finals are over because he was pretty worried about them. I can't believe he's done. Wow,

were does the time go." I babbled on as we road.

Jacob didn't say much after I finished but that was probably because we had just pulled

up into the driveway of the house.

I couldn't wait for Jake to get to my side of the car so I just hoped out and looked at the

house, it was beautiful. I just looked over at Jake and he smiled. I could tell he was

excited.

"you said they were renting it to you for how much?" I asked.

"just 600 a month!" he said excitedly

As we walked towards the frong door, I exclaimed in disbelief "you have got to be

kidding me, it looks like it worth 4 times that, how long is your lease?"

"A year. Yeah I know. It is worth about that much normally. The owners don't really

need the money. She just basically needed someone here while she sorts through what to

do next. I was told that she's going through a divorce and she wanted to move out quickly.

But with the economy the way it is they couldn't sell it."

"who told you about this house again?" I asked.

"Gary, he works in the office suite next to mine. He knows the couple that owns the

property. He and I got to talking one day and"

Jake lifted his hand and gestured toward the house with his palm turned up toward it. "the

rest is history, so what do you think?" He said with a huge smiled plastered on his face.

"you fucking kidding me right? It's gorgeous."

The outside was all brick, 2 stories. It looked like it was well over 2,500 square feet. We

walked into the foyer and it was all hardwood flooring. To the left was an office to the

right the living room. Directly in front of us the stair case leading to the upstairs

bedrooms.

"how many bedrooms?"

"4"

'Wow" is all I could say.

As we continued to walk the foyer there was a huge half bath. Directly across from it was

the stair well that lead to the basement. One more foot and we were in the kitchen. The all

wood flooring continued from the foyer to the kitchen. There was an island in the middle

that stood in front of us. Once we were in the kitchen I gasped as I looked to the left. It

was a huge family room with cathedral ceiling. The windows were on one wall that led

the view to the back yard. They were as long as the wall itself. Right in between the

family room and the kitchen island was the kitchen nook and the patio door was off of it.

The kitchen wall was lined with cabinets. A couple of the cabinets had glass Payne's in

them so you could see through and tell what was in them. There was a window right

above the sink which viewed the back yard as well. To the right of the kitchen was the

dinning room which was connected and open to the living room which you saw when you

entered the front door. I just stood there for a moment. Mouth a gapped.

Jake looked at me and smiled, "I take it you like it."

I just rolled my wide eyed smile to him and didn't say a word. He just laughed and said

"there's icing"

he lead me to the patio door and opened the blind that hid the backyard. To the right of

the patio just before the kitchen widow was a hot tub.

I almost squealed when I looked slightly to the right. "are you fucking kidding me! A hot

tub!"

Jacob slid the patio doors open for me and I stepped onto the paved patio floor and

noticed that land was semi-private. It was lined with trees directly in back of the house

and about ¼ to a ½ acre of land to the left. There were neighbors to the right of the house.

Jacob said "that small forest right there is preserved wet land so it will never get

developed. That forest is there to stay." As I looked to the right were the row of

neighbors were I noticed only our immediate neighbor shared the small forest. The others

backyards were open to each other.

Just as we were coming back into the house a man was entering from the foyer hall way.

He carried a black suede portfolio case. He extended his hand to Jake. "Jacob Black I'm

willing to bet"

"Yes" Jacob replied as he accepted his hand and they shook. "I'm Tyler, I know that

you've spoken to Gabrielle in the past about this property but she became unavailable at

the last minute. She's brought me up to speed though and I understand that we are

finalizing the paperwork today. Is that correct?"

Jake looked down at me and I just looked up at him and shook my head in the affirmative.

He looked back at Tyler and said.

"yes, we are."

"good, good. Very well then, let's have a seat at the kitchen table here." as he stepped in

the direction of the table, Jacob turned to me and put his arm around my waist before he

asked if I wanted to join them. I told him to go ahead because I wanted to explore the

house a little more. He kissed my forehead and chuckled into my hair before he released

his arm from around my waist. Jake and Tyler proceed to sit as I turned to go upstairs.

The 1st bedroom was located almost directly across from the stairway. The 2nd bedroom

was just to my left. The third was located down a little hall way. Once you reached this

bedroom you could look over a banister right down into the family room and you could

see the back yard from up here to. This bedroom was situated right over the attached

garaged. The way a couple of the bedrooms had been painted they had to of belonged to

children. The first was painted a peach like color. The 2nd Pink and purple and the 3rd

blue and green. For the most part they looked about the same size with the exception of

pink and purple bedroom which had it's own little miniature walk in closet. Kinda funny

that the other 2, which were probably the boys room only had normal closet space while

the only girl room had the miniature walk-in. That's right we do need our closet space.

This thought made me chuckle slightly. Between the 4th bedroom and the other 3 was a

full bath with a double sink.

The furniture for the bedrooms were missing which I found kind of odd because the

entire house on the 1st floor was fully furnished.

The office had a beautiful glass table that ran along 2 of the 3 walls and curved on of the

corners. The wall that didn't have furniture against it was the front window. The Living

room was fully furnished with a couple of really nice couches and a coffee table which

sat on top of a beautiful plush rug.

The dining room had a beautiful mahogany table. The runner was still down the middle

of it and was adorned by a very large and nice center piece.

The kitchen still had the nook table with 4 chairs around it and the center island had 2 bar

stool type chairs. The family room had one long couch facing the huge wall of windows

and they had left a very large expensive looking T.V equipped with a VCR and DVD

player. 'VCR huh, who uses those anymore' another chuckle. Just below the widow seal

there were bench seat which probably had been used to house the kids toys or couch

blankets and whatnot's. So it was kind of weird not to see any bedding upstairs.

I now stood at the entrance of the 4th bedroom, which my guess was the Master bedroom.

As I walked into the room I couldn't help but notice how huge it was. A beautiful ceiling

fan attached to a very unique lighting fixture. I laughed as I looked at the fan that was

purely there for aesthetics not like in my bedroom where it was placed for mere survival.

This house came with central air so there was really no need for a ceiling fan. To the right

of the entrance was a small hall way, as I stepped into the hall way, there were walk in

closets to the left and right of me. Right in front of me was another door as I opened it I

couldn't believe the size of the master bath room. The toilet was directly to my left, the

independent all glass seamless shower was located in front of it. There was a long

bathroom cabinet and counter top which held double sinks with plenty of room in the

middle to hold probably anything you needed to get ready in the morning. The Mirror on

the wall was a long as the countertop. Immediately to my right was a 2 person Jacuzzi tub

which had enough space around it to place candles and other things to fancy it up. There

were 2 windows in the bathroom which lined the wall of the tub and the other was on the

wall next to the mirror.

As I stood in the bathroom I saw Jake walk up behind me in the mirror. I felt and saw

Jake wrap his arms around my waist as I looked at his reflection in the mirror in front of

us. He looked at me in the mirror and said. "I see you've found where were going to be

sleeping for at least the next 12 months."

After he said that he kissed me on the neck slowly and I started to lose control of my

senses as I closed my eyes and imagined us here always alone no interruptions, no one to

care about but us. I started to feel elated but then something struck me and I turned into

Jacob's arms and my face was in front of his.

He looked at me questioningly and all I could say, with sadness in my voice was.

"what happened to them Jacob?"

I placed my face into his chest and breathed him in as thoughts started to flood my mind

of what could have possibly happened to this family that once lived here.

What had torn them apart? I couldn't help but feel sadness and overcome with the reality

that some fairy tales don't always have happy endings and soon this big girl started to cry.

"shhhh bells, what wrong honey."

"I'm sorry Jake, I'm happy. Really I am." I blubbered.

"well I would hate to see you upset" Jacob mused which made me smile as the tears

continued to flow.

"I just can't help but wonder what happed to them Jacob. What made there relationship

fall apart. From what I see it looks like they might have once been a happy family. I

know that I could probably rack my brain but I'll probably never know why. I think about

my parents. Your mom passing and your dad being alone and I can't help but wonder,

what will happen to us. What does our future have in store for us?"

I started to think about the conversation that we had earlier and I looked up at him and

with tears still in my eyes and asked

"Will we make it Jacob?

A/N

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