Christopher and Jaime (Pianos and Promises #1) by Jennifer Peel

Author:Jennifer Peel [Peel, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01KBKULFC
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-09-05T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

I wasn’t sure how long I would have access to Chris’s journal, so I started where we became husband and wife.

I married Jaime over the weekend. I finally understand why they call it making love. There wasn’t time for a real honeymoon, but this weekend of only her and me was incredible. Best honeymoon I’ve ever had. Until this morning, I’ve never had the urge to skip a day of work, but watching her sleep in our bed, I can’t think of any other place I would rather be. She’s beautiful. And she’s mine.

I felt myself internally heat up thinking back to those first days as husband and wife. I was surprised he wrote something so intimate, but I had felt the same way. It was the best weekend of my life. Any worry I’d had about our future melted away during the course of those couple of days. Everything about it felt so right. For a while, he tried his best to come home at a decent time, and as soon as Allie was sound asleep, we were wrapped up in one another in true newlywed fashion.

I read on, and for many more pages it was mostly business related. I began to see the worry creep in about the Addison building. Contractors were sloppy, or untimely; the costs were sky rocketing. He questioned cashing out the annuity he had purchased with the sale of his grandparent’s estate. Allie and I were considerations in it.

I hope I haven’t robbed my family of our financial security. I’m trusting in my research and trends. I’ll do whatever it takes to make this work for us. Allie and Jaime deserve that. And when it’s all settled, I’ll take Jaime on that honeymoon I promised her.

From what Beck said, it still wasn’t settled. That made the trip to Italy we would never go on more surprising. I didn’t need the trip or lots of money. Allie and I just needed him. He probably didn’t understand that because he grew up with both money and doting grandparents. I never had money to throw around, and even being married to Chris, I lived within a budget. I drove him a little nuts with it, but I didn’t marry him for money.

I still remember with fondness our fight over what kind of car he was going to buy me. He didn’t want Allie being driven around in a death trap, as he called my ancient car. He wanted to put me in some luxury SUV, but I wanted a simple sedan. He finally gave up taking me to car dealerships. He came home one night with the keys to a Volvo and the next day he had my car towed away. I think he donated it to some charity for veterans so I wouldn’t protest.

He kissed me on the cheek while pressing the key into my hand. “Please accept the car. I want you and Allie to be safe.” His sincerity was apparent.

Moments like those bridged the gap for me.

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