“I might as well,” Jocelyn said. “Having Maverick so much in my place made me realize I need more space. I need privacy.” She needed to get Chance to see they belonged together because she knew he was still having doubts, which she hated for him.
That meant taking action.
The years where she changed her behavior, where she let other men take the lead while she waited and wondered were long gone.
Her relationship with Chance told her the one thing she needed to know all along.
The man who would be in her life was the one who let her be herself.
That was Chance.
Now she just needed to convince him of that.
She was looking at available land in a gated community that the Kennedys owned.
“How big of a lot do you want?” Royce asked.
“I think a corner one. Gives me more space in the backyard. I’ll figure out maintenance at another time.”
“We’ve got three corner lots open right now,” Royce said. “Let’s just jump in my truck and head there.”
They were parked at the entrance to the development.
“Is there one where I won’t have to hear too much construction around me? I know that sounds stupid.”
“That narrows it down to one spot,” Royce said, doing a U-turn. “One corner lot where most of the houses directly by it are done.”
“Perfect.” She wanted to say she’d take it. It’s not that she knew much about looking at the land itself. She wanted to see the finished product.
They parked outside, Jocelyn pulling her jacket tight. It’d been two weeks since Christmas.
That morning, she’d woken up in bed alone.
Chance had gotten up earlier and she smelled the coffee and made her way toward the aroma.
The tree was lit up, the gifts sparkling under it for Maverick as if they were diamonds in the sun.
He’d told her he’d never seen so many gifts under a tree at once before. She didn’t think there were all that many.
Chance was giving his son everything that he’d never gotten as a child.
How could you not love a man like that?
She loved the man and his child and knew that it was time to do this.
It would break her again if things didn’t work out with her and Chance, if he didn’t understand who she was and why she was doing this.
But best to know that now before she lost her heart even more. If that was possible!
Royce parked in front of the lot that was fenced off with temporary orange plastic rigging. There were two houses on each side, the land wider in the front than in the back, but still pretty spacious.
“How close to the road is the house going to be?”
Royce walked out with a can of spray paint and marked the spot. “It can’t be any closer than this but could go back further.”
“How about more on one side than the other so I could get more land on the side and back?”
“We can do that,” he said. “If you ever decide you want a pool, it could easily go on the side. This is a much larger lot than other ones. Or go on the back and seating areas off of the side.”
