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What they didn’t know is that I already had a plan, I just needed them in on it. I sent an address to the group chat.
Me: I need everyone to come meet me here.
Atlas: That's not frightening at all…
Dean: I’m driving back to town, I’ll head your way now
Ezra: I’ve got five minutes until the next shift comes in
That was enough for me to walk away from my cell phone and ignore them, getting the few last minute things I wanted taking care of wrapped up.
I’d just finished the last wall in the living room when I heard them pulling up. Wanting to see their reaction firsthand, I dropped everything.
Dean and Atlas were climbing out of the SUV and eyeing the house.
We didn’t even get a chance to say anything before Ezra’s pickup truck crunched along the gravel drive. I waited for him to climb out before saying a word.
“Why are we at old man Stanton’s place?” he questioned curiously. I had a feeling they knew exactly why they were here but wanted me to say it first.
“It’s not his place anymore and hasn’t been. It was abandoned for a good ten years before the family finally decided to let it go.”
Just to build up the anticipation, I let those words linger in the air before I finally said the most important ones.
“When my friend at the office called, I decided to buy it.”
“Wait, you just bought a house?” Dean said incredulously. I should have probably considered that I would have offended the two real estate agents but I held my hands up in defense.
“No I didn’t just buy a house,” I clarified. “I bought it about two years back. It was more of a passion project and something I hadn’t given much thought until recently.”
“It’s just as big as I remember,” Dean said. “My dad used to drag us out here to help him do yard work every summer. He always paid us a couple bucks and said it was from the old man but I know he paid it himself.”
“I know we hate how things are going,” I explained. “It has to be killing you as badly as it is me. We need a place to share and this place is plenty big enough for all of us. We can’t have our omega bouncing from bed to bed for long.”
“It’s awful,” Ezra agreed. “That apartment has never felt so empty before.”
“Mine’s just as bad,” Atlas said.
“Being away from her is almost painful,” Dean agreed.
Their eyes searched the property as if for the first time and I hoped they were thinking of how they’d like it to look. It wasn’t just mine anymore, it was ours.
“Most of the renovations I’ve already done have been in the basic parts of the house. I kept the basement pretty minimal, concrete floors, industrial walls but everything is clean, painted nice. I was thinking of just building storage into it. The kitchen is pretty much done, it just needs appliances put in and the living room is bare but I just coated the last wall with paint. I want to add a few nicer fixtures but I didn’t touch the rest of the house.”
“You’re willing to work with the pack on this? I feel like you’ve put your soul into it,” Dean questioned.
“I did, but things change,” I said easily. “We have plenty left to make it ours. And enough rooms we can have the space we need.”
“Not this much, I hope,” Atlas joked.
“Let me show you something,” I said, waving them all in. The one piece of furniture I did buy was a large dining room table. Another pack was selling it and I knew it was perfect so they helped me bring it out here. It could easily seat ten of us and it was solid wood. I could already see our families meeting here for cookouts.
“This place is huge,” Dean said. “The kitchen alone is the size of my apartment.”
“Well, it has to fit a pack,” his brother reasoned. “We’d be able to treat her like a queen here.”
“I did promise her we’d figure out a nest before the next heat,” Ezra said. “I don’t like breaking promises. What are we looking at as a timeline?”
“We’re nearly done with the storefront we’re working on with Micah. It should wrap within the next month, but that doesn’t mean I can’t split my time here. If you guys helped me in your off time, too, it’d go even faster.”
