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“Jessica, what do you think about moving in together?” Matt asked when they were snuggled up together in bed. I mean, we are married, and I’d figured we should get a place of our own unless you want to live at my family’s mansion, which is fine by me. Whatever you want.”
Jessica was silent for a moment, thinking this through. It was true that she had been wondering about this for a couple of days now. Everything had happened too fast. Things with Matt had been happening all out of order, but she honestly didn’t mind that. She was in love with the person she had married. She liked to think that she got lucky in life when she found someone like Matt, who loved and treasured her and would do anything for her.
Before the whole wedding sham with Spencer, Jessica and Spencer hadn’t officially been living together, even though they did spend a lot of time with each other, mostly at Jessica’s place. Jessica still owned her apartment back in Pennsylvania. Spencer also used to live in Pennsylvania, and having been colleagues, he spent a lot of nights at her place. Jessica had assumed they’d move in together after they got married. She had been living there and working full-time as a nurse, but now that she wasn’t doing that job anymore, the apartment didn’t really have a purpose, which brought her back to what Matt was asking.
“Yes, I would like that very much. I was going to free my apartment back in Pennsylvania anyway,” she replied.
“Do you want to go back to Pennsylvania, though?” Matt asked.
“No.”
“Are you sure? You don’t have to consider anything for me, you know. I could live anywhere as long as you liked it there. It doesn’t really matter to me. What matters to me is your happiness, and since you have lived there for some time now, I don’t want to uproot you from your life,” Matt said.
It was funny, Jessica thought, how she didn’t even have a life to uproot in the first place. Until now, she had always felt like she was a ghost, just drifting from place to place. Pennsylvania had never been her home, not really. She had grown up in New Jersey and went to Pennsylvania for work. Since she didn’t work for that hospital anymore, there was nothing tying her to that state. She didn’t even know if New Jersey was her home. Sure, it was the place she was born in and where her parents still lived today. She visited her parents from time to time when work allowed her, but that was all. Her home was where her heart was, and now it was with Matt.
“No, it’s okay. I don’t have any ties there anyway. Besides, I don’t think I am too enthusiastic about going back to the place where I shared a life of lies with Spencer. My life is with you now, Matt. I want to start over—all new and fresh. Look for a new job and go wherever it is you’re at,” she said, looking at him intently. She meant every word she said.
She saw Matt’s eyes soften. He took her into his chest and hugged her tightly.
“I love you.”
“It would seem so,” she replied and felt his smile on her forehead.
“How about we continue what we were doing just a while ago?” she asked with a wink.
The answer to her question was Matt taking her mouth into his back again. They ended up spending the whole day in bed.
47
Jessica ended up living at Matt’s different places for the next few months. He had apartments and suites all over the US. Since he travelled a lot for business, he kept a place for himself in most of the major states. Jessica went with him, and they made a tour out of it. They were in their honeymoon phase. They couldn’t keep their hands off each other. Though Jessica wanted to get back to working as a nurse, it was almost the end of the year and holidays were coming up, so Matt suggested that she wait until the next year to start a new job. In the meantime, they could take some time to themselves, travel, and have a good time. Jessica couldn’t agree more. She really needed this reprieve after the rollercoaster that her life had been for the past few weeks.
It was November, and they were currently at California, having arrived there a few days ago. After a lazy morning in bed, Matt was in the shower when Jessica heard her phone ping. It was her mom texting her to tell her to be home for Thanksgiving. “Your father will not admit it, but he’s very excited to see you and Matt again. Do come to have dinner with us this year. We miss you, baby girl.”
Jessica smiled and shook her head at the phone. She texted back, “I’ll talk to Matt and let you know. I miss you guys too. For real.”
“Who you texting?” Matt asked, coming to the bedroom wearing a towel.
Jessica gave him a look that suggested she liked what she saw. “Just Mom. She has invited us over for Thanksgiving. Think you want to go?”
“Yeah, sure,” Matt said.
“But what about your family? Don’t they also want us for Thanksgiving?”
“They probably do, but they’re getting Christmas, so I guess they can do without Thanksgiving.”
Jessica grinned. “Okay then, I’ll let Mom know we’re coming. She said Dad is super excited too.”
Matt places a kiss on the tip of her nose. “I love seeing you get excited about something, but your dad? Excited? That’s going to be interesting.”
“Hey, don’t tease. You know he was only trying to be protective,” Jessica said with mock offense.
Matt chuckled. “I know. If I had a daughter as beautiful as you, I’d be worse.”
“Stop flirting,” she said, lips twisting into a smile.
“You like it,” he said.
Jessica caught one end of the towel and yanked it away.
