Chapter Eight
Tom
Relief floods through me. The house will be ours. We’ll be able to buy the house soon. Sure, not straight away, there’s paperwork and inspections and those things to do first. But we’ll be able to buy the house, which makes me happier than I thought it would make me.
We’ve been living in Mia’s grandma’s house for weeks, and of course, this has always been the house I’ve wanted to live in, but I thought that just living here would be enough, even if the place wasn’t ours.
My heart is about to burst. This is... This is so good and makes everything even better.
I tighten my arms around Mia, not sure how else to express this bubbly and happy feeling inside. The house will be ours. Ours. Together. This house.
“It’s going to be a lot of work.” I don’t even know why I say
