Chapter 10 #3
“That’s so sad that they don’t even want to see their own children have a free meal that would be good for them.
” He said that there were sadder things going on around the little town that people have given up on.
“I know. I’ve seen it before. When I worked in the restaurant as a server, I tried to get them to donate the food that was left over at the end of the night.
But it turned out to be more red tape than anyone wanted to deal with.
After a few days of trying to get it to work, everyone just gave up on it.
Sad, too, that was a great deal of food that could have gone to someone who didn’t have a meal that night. ”
They talked about the sad part of trying to feed the homeless and how the clinic had given up on trying to run the home for the homeless.
People wanted more than they had all the time, and it too became too much work for them.
As they were leaving the restaurant, having had a wonderful meal, he told her that he loved her.
“I love you very much, too.” He kissed her on the mouth and pulled her tightly to him.
As they were headed to the car again, he held her hand and curled his fingers between her own.
It was the best way to keep her close to him, and he couldn’t get enough of her.
As soon as they were home, they went to the library, their favorite part of the house, and laid on the couch.
They were both reading a book before the clock chimed nine o’clock.
By ten, they were both yawning and ready for bed.
They were beginning the shutting up of the house when he realized that he wasn’t bored at all but genially tired.
Laughing a little to himself, he told Kimber what he’d been thinking about as he locked up the house.
She thought it was funny that they were like an old married couple and going to bed so early.
However, he did point out that they’d been up since dawn, making love.
She said it was the best part of her day, morning sex.
“You’re the love of my life.” Before she was asleep, she told him that she was tired.
He was all right with that. Watching her sleep was his favorite part of the night.
He could and had done it for hours before, and he never got tired of it.
As she slept through the night, he did things around the house that would keep him from the bedroom while she rested, and he usually got a lot finished.
As he was getting ready to get up to get into something else, he heard from Rutger.
“I have a house that I’m supposed to look at on Monday.
It’s exactly what I want in a home.” He asked if he had the address yet.
They could drive by it. “No, the woman who is selling the house is living there on her own for a little bit, and she doesn’t want to be disturbed.
I guess I can understand that. Selling your family home wouldn’t be good if you’ve lived there for a while.
I know that I’d have some trouble with that as well. ”
“Tell me about the house.” He told him everything that he knew about the place and speculated on some of the things that he’d been wanting. “It does sound perfect. I wonder why she’s selling it? More than likely just for the money. How much is she asking for the place?”
“Two million. It has the acreage too that goes with it, so that might be the reason that the price is so high. I don’t know.
I won’t be ripped off because it’s the perfect house for me.
” He said he sounded like he’d already purchased it in his mind.
“I have, I think. I think she said that the furniture went with it, and that’s all right too.
If I don’t want it, I can always sell it.
Since I don’t have anything for it as yet, I can get rid of what I don’t want when I get more.
I’m not opposed to leaving it like it is for the time being. ”
“Good. You have an open mind.” He said that he was going to make an offer on it on Monday. “Slow your horses, buddy. For all you know, it could be covered in cocks and have shag carpet in the bathrooms.”
“I know it’s going to be perfect for me.
And I’m excited. I’m sort of glad that I don’t have an address.
I’d be hounding the woman to move out. Do you suppose she’s going to a nursing home or something?
I don’t know why, but I have a feeling that it’s been in her family for generations.
I wonder too if we had anything to do with the building of the house.
We did help out with a lot of the old houses around here.
” He told him it would be hard to remember all the houses that they built for money back then.
“I’m not saying that it’s an ancient or anything but I remember working on some of the houses for a bit of cash at one time. ”
The two of them spoke until two in the morning.
It was nice having someone to talk to in the middle of the night when Kimber was resting, but he also knew that Rutger was lonely, too.
He had been without a mate all his life, and now he was beginning to feel the pinch of it.
He needed to find his mate, and that was all there was to it.
When the conversation wound down, he realized that he was tired too.
Telling Rutger good night, he was told that he was nearly too happy to rest. Not that he needed to, but it wouldn’t hurt him to take a nap, too.
He was going to ruin the house hunting for him by trying to badger his way into the house; he just knew it. If he were asleep, then he’d be good.
Laughing to himself, Rance decided that he couldn’t do any more than he’d done for his friend than just to listen to him.
Monday was still several days away, plenty enough time for him to get his ducks in a row before making an offer on the house sight unseen.
He just hoped that his friend waited to see if before doing that.
It would be bad if it turned out to be just some run-down old house that needed updates on everything, including the toilets.
Relaxed enough to sleep now, he laid down on the bed and held Kimber.
Holding her would give him such good dreams that he never worried about having nightmares again.
He’d had them as a younger vampire, but not in a long time.
He was happy for that. Sometimes he’d wake as his monster to save him; they’d be so bad.
Smiling to himself, he thought of his other brothers.
They weren’t really brothers, but they might as well have been.
They’d been friends for so long that he was sure that he knew everything about the five of them.
He was the closest to Rutger, but Brew had a special place in his heart as well. Then there was Kenneth.
He’d always been the shyest one of the group of them. He wondered at times if he was able to find food when he needed it, he was that shy. He knew that he did, he’d not be alive if he didn’t, but he did worry about him.
Yosef was just the opposite of Kenneth in that he was loud and funny. He’d make a joke about anything and everything just to bring a room up. He was terrible at funerals, not that they went to that many of them, because of his sense of humor would get him into trouble.
Rance couldn’t wait for them all to have mates and enjoy life as he and the others were.
Everything seemed to be coming out well for them, and he sometimes worried about the other shoe dropping.
Not that he had it perfect with Kimber, his brother had nearly taken them apart, but now that David was taken care of, they had very little to worry about anymore. Which is the way that he liked it.
Closing his eyes, he thought about his day with Kimber.
He never tired of being with her, which he supposed was the way that it should be.
She made him laugh, sometimes even at himself, when they were together.
It was wonderful knowing too that he could go to her for some reassurances about their relationship, knowing what a bastard he’d been at the first. Also, he could never get tired of her saying that she loved him because he loved her just as much.