Sooner

Eric had thought it would be six months before Emily and Ryan moved in together; he was wrong. Calleigh said it would be sooner and she was right. Less than four months after Emily moved to town Ryan took two days off to help her move into his two bedroom condo. The team had seen a lot more of Emily since they were first introduced to her at the restaurant. All had to agree she was right for Ryan. They were glad to see that even if Emily wasn't OCD like her boyfriend she didn't poke fun at him for it and try to embarrass him about it. It was a part of who Ryan was and she accepted this unconditionally.

Selena O'Riley had to stifle a scream of joy, shocking herself, when she had heard her best friend had met up with Ryan Wolfe again weeks ago. Emily's best friend had seen how devastated Emily was when she and Ryan broke up. Emily had cried for weeks. Hearing they were reunited was great news. She knew more surely that her two friends would start a family. Selena was a mother of one-year-old identical twins Chloe and Aaliyah and four-year-old Mason. She and her husband Lance owned a restaurant in Sarasota. Emily was the children's godmother. Emily found the racial mix of the three children made them fascinatingly beautiful; Selena's husband Lance was born in Korea and believed to have had a Korean birthmother and Chinese birthfather, but was raised in the United States since the age of six months by adoptive was betting his wife that Emily and Ryan would elope in weeks, even days. He had just met Emily a few times and had yet to meet Ryan but from what he had been told it sounded like this would happen. Selena couldn't disagree. Neither could she say it was an unwise decision. It wasn't like the two had just met. If the two hadn't been separated by the circumstances of life they would have been long married and started family life by now.

Ryan laughed after he helped Emily move in when Calleigh asked him where they "started on the baby yet."

They weren't but Emily couldn't help but think and Ryan agreed that the small spare room would make a cozy nursery. The CSI had ten days of vacation coming up in a week and he was planning to take his lover away on a trip to the Florida keys.

A short chapter but juicy one coming up!