Total pages in book: 35
Estimated words: 34206 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 171(@200wpm)___ 137(@250wpm)___ 114(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 34206 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 171(@200wpm)___ 137(@250wpm)___ 114(@300wpm)
He got to his feet, cupped her face, and slammed his lips down on hers.
“I love you, Teal. I love you so fucking much.” Jaxson pulled her into his arms, kissing her. He still held the ring in his hand, and he quickly pulled away to slide it onto her finger.
The perfect fit, just as he knew it would be. When it came to Teal, everything was going to fit perfectly. He couldn’t help but think about the cursed houses.
No, he didn’t believe it. There was no way it could be right. He refused to believe it.
Even if it did bring Teal to him. The houses didn’t make him fall in love. That was him. No one else.
Epilogue
Six months later
“Jaxson, why are we here?”
He looked over at his beautiful, glowing wife as he pulled up behind Hector’s car. “There is something I haven’t told you. It’s going to sound crazy, and I honestly don’t know how you’re going to feel about this, but there’s something about our old homes that you don’t know.” He took a deep breath and then told her everything he knew.
Also, he explained that he’d been to visit the old houses a few times, and he had even become good friends with Hector. Elizabeth was there as well. The older woman had certainly given him a scare a few times he’d seen her.
Teal looked toward the houses and then back at him. “Are you serious right now?”
“Totally serious. I mean, I didn’t believe it myself, but the way I felt, how I feel when I’m with you.”
Teal rubbed her stomach. “Our houses are cursed to bring people together?” She frowned. “I don’t know how anyone can see that as a curse. That’s a gift. Wait, hold on one second. Do you think it is true?”
Jaxson gripped his neck. “I don’t know, but I have to wonder. The first time we were introduced, you slipped.”
“You’re right, I did.”
“On what?”
Teal opened her mouth and closed it. “I have no idea. I just slipped. It was like the ground had ice or something.”
“In the height of summer.”
“Okay, and then there was that mail. I was always getting your mail.”
“The one where I finally invited you into my home, that was empty. No return address, no nothing.”
“There are so many different explanations for this.”
“What about having a photographic memory and suddenly failing your exams?”
Teal’s mouth opened. “And I passed them with no problems. Again, so many explanations for this.”
“But do we need to truly find them?” Jaxson asked. “We’re together.”
“And we’re here now because?”
“Because out there is Hector Carter. He owned your old house before you and your mother. His wife owned my old house. There is Elizabeth, and she has seen so many people come and go between our houses.”
“Wow,” she said.
“Yeah, would you like to meet them?”
“Yes.”
Jaxson took his wife out to meet his two friends, and they all turned to the two main houses.
“Six months, is that a record?” Jaxson asked.
“A record?” Teal asked.
“It would seem we sold to a men-hating woman and a women-hating man.” Jaxson explained the details to her.
Elizabeth snorted, and they all stood, frozen and silent, as both neighbors came out of the house, turned to look at one another, and there was a moment.
Jaxson saw it.
“I’ll give it ’til Christmas,” Elizabeth said.
He pulled Teal into his arms. He believed in the houses, and Teal was right. They were a gift to the couples who lived there, not a curse.
The End