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“I sadly won’t be there,” Elias said, sounding anything but sad about it. “So I’m glad I got the chance to meet you now.”
I was about to say ‘me too’but Jeremy took over. And pointed at the floors. “We need all the carpet stripped off and if the wood flooring can be saved, we want it sanded down and stained in a warm light color.”
Elias was all work now and nodded, taking notes on his phone. “The stain for nails?” he asked Jeremy, who nodded.
“Nails?” I questioned, loving how Jeremy took charge and helped me.
“For our shifted forms. We all have wood floorings with a special stain that adds protection to the wood. It’s also good for when you have pets,” Jeremy explained.
“Oh, sounds good, then. The only furniture upstairs is my bed, so you can start there. Let me know when you reach my bedroom and I’ll help move my bed.”
Jeremy waved it off. “Elias and I will move the bed, you can keep Daisy company while we work.”
That sounded perfect to me, but the way Elias kept glancing Jeremy’s way…I would need to keep an eye on that. I knew Jeremy was single, and interested in me, but I already had to deal with Darius being in his life. There simply wasn’t room for the red headed carpet guy too.
I left them to it and sat down with Daisy in the living room, mentally preparing myself to meet a lot of new people today.
Holy… did this mean Jeremy and I were actuallydatingnow? Was that like a shifter thing? Showing me off to his pack?
Daisy purred under my touch and I brushed the worry aside. Jeremy was back in my life and I’d promised myself I would follow my heart. Since it was intent on following Jeremy, I would gladly do whatever it wanted.
Chapter Fifteen
Jeremy
It hadn’t felt good at all being asked to leave yesterday, but it wasn’t as if I’d truly left. I’d walked into the woods and stripped before shifting, then I’d stayed close to his house and slept in my wolf form, needing to be close to him. When the sun came up and the birds started yapping away, I’d run back to Dad’s place and asked him to alert the pack that I’d bring Cass around later today. I was done hiding Cass away, but I’d also informed Dad that they weren’t allowed to call him my mate yet. I could only hope they would remember that last part.
Elias and I had finished stripping away all the disgusting carpet. We’d found the flooring underneath to be in good condition in every room, except the living room, sadly. Some water damage was noticeable so it would need to be replaced. Elias was already on it and would put in a new one as soon as he got the correct flooring delivered.
Our pack land, which was basically just an area on the outskirts of town, had lots of houses scattered around where we lived. It wasn’t as secluded as other packs preferred to live.We were still close to town and humans, but we liked that. We wanted to be a part of this town and not just outsiders living amongst them.
I’d driven us here in Cass’ car and parked in front of my house, wanting Cass to see it first before we walked to the community center.
“Wow! This is your house?” Cass’s eyes were wide and full of awe as we exited the car. Last time I’d told him to park on the road, not wanting him to see everything before I could do a proper tour. It was a pride thing for sure, wanting to show off my home to my mate. His future home with me. Now, Cass could see just how much work I’d put into it.
“Yeah,” I smiled. He didn’t know it yet, but that house would soon be his, too.
“No wonder you know so much about flooring and paint. You renovated it yourself?”
Nodding, I unlocked the front door and let him enter first. “Most of the houses my pack live in were old ones we helped renovate.”
“I thought your pack had always had this territory?” He eyed my paneled walls with clear interest.
“We have, for many generations, but when my dad became Alpha, he moved most of us to this side of the territory, bringing us closer to the town center and the humans here. He wanted us to be a bigger part of the town. We bought old and abandoned houses, then made them all pretty and safe to live in.”
“I love that,” he smiled. “Makes you appreciate it more.”
I swallowed, feeling slightly guilty for not telling him about how soon he would likely move out of his own home. We could keep it as a pack house, or he could sell it. In any case, the renovations wouldn’t be in vain, and that helped ease my guilt a little.
After a brief tour of every room, we headed into the back yard.
“This is huge!” he gushed, looking over at my vegetable garden.
“Wolves need lots of space to run in.” I pointed to the trees in the back. “Those border the forest, making it easier for me to let my wolf free whenever I want to.”
He looked so amazed by that, smiling at me. He opened his mouth to say something, but a howl from the trees had him stopping.
Now, he’d seemed fine with me being a wolf. Not once had he reacted with fear, but as Milo came running in his wolf form from the trees, Cass screamed.
