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“If you’re uncomfortable with the pack house, we can buy a house today and move tomorrow,” he said, pulling out his phone, probably to make a call to get things moving. “We were to pick out a new home after our mating ceremony.” I winced at the reminder.
The Mating Ceremony.
It felt like ages ago when I stood with him on that platform to announce we would be having a ceremony. I’d been ecstatic. Things were finally falling in place at that point but now they’d fallen apart and I couldn’t think of where I was expected to start from.
“I want a big house,” I blurted out.
I waited for him to berate me, to look at me like an extravagant person out to waste his money. Maybe he would think I wanted a big house to hide my lovers or some other bullshit. I wanted a big house because it was the only way I could think of avoiding him.
I’d told him severally to leave me alone. I needed a breather. I needed space but he didn’t seem to understand. He felt if he was everywhere, I would have no choice but to put everything behind me and pretend I didn’t hate seeing his face. He was everywhere I turned but in a bigger house, he wouldn’t be so much in my space. Or so I hoped.
“If you want a bigger house, you can get a bigger house. I’ll let Jabari know.” He stood up and walked out to the terrace to make a call. I flopped back into bed, rubbing my eyes.
The penthouse that once felt large now felt too small. I closed my tired eyes, trying to rest them because they were tired from all the crying I’d done.
I felt my stomach while I lay down. It was flat but unlike before, I couldn’t expect it to grow bigger with time. It would remain flat because there wasn’t a child in there anymore. It sucked and I wanted to bury my face in the pillow and cry some more.
“I told her she’d get a house today so we better get a house today.” I listened for Valens’ voice. It was hard not to hear him because his voice had been steadily rising the longer he was on the call. “I don’t care if it’s hard to do as long as it’s doable. Call my accountant. We are buying a house tomorrow.”
There was silence as he listened to the other person at the end of the call. He was too far away for me to pick up what the other person was saying but it made him pace.
“She wants a big house so that wouldn’t do.” More silence. “A mansion, yes.” Silence stretched after that. “Don’t ask me if I am settling in Redville. She wants a mansion so she should get one.”
He stopped pacing for a second. “You are getting on my nerves.” His voice went cold. “What I plan for the future is none of your business. I am buying a house! I am giving you till ten p.m to come up with something.
“The renovations have just been completed. It has nine rooms and a pool.” She shook with excitement as she showed us the house. From my reaction, she could tell I was impressed and we were very likely going to take it. It was everything we asked for.
The first house we saw was nice but it just wasn’t big enough for what I wanted. It was in a gated community with similar-looking houses. I frowned the minute we drove past the gates. Everything went to shit when Valens found an unassuming spot. He poked at it a bit and uncovered rotten wood. The caretaker looked stunned, ashamed and terrified all at once when we left.
“The renovators added a nice movie theatre, a recreation room and even an indoor jacuzzi. It’s brilliant, I tell you.” The agent showing us the place couldn’t stop gushing.
“Do you like it?” Valens asked me.
I looked around the place. Truly, it was magnificent. The place was large and stunning with enough land surrounding it. We’d have our private woods, rather than the public woods behind the pack house and the nonsense the gated community had shown us.
“It’s beautiful,” I said and the agent beamed at me.
“You have fine taste, my dear Luna,” the woman said. She turned to Valens. “How would you like to pay? I have the paperwork here with me.” And indeed she did.
“Are we are we buying it already?” I asked, looking from the woman to Valens.
“Do you have any reservations?” Valens asked while the agent’s face fell.
“Security here is top notch. The gates cannot be accessed ”
I didn’t have anything against the house particularly. I was just surprised one could buy a house just like that.
“I wasn’t asking you,” Valens glared at the woman who had shifted back into sales mood, highlighting everything we would gain from buying the house. Of course, she wouldn’t mention the downsides. It would take hours to clean the freaking place. I wanted a big house but he was getting a ginormous one! “If you don’t like it, there are still two others we can look at.”
There wasn’t anything I wanted that I couldn’t find in this house. Really, all I wanted was space and it had an abundance of it, both outside and inside.
“It’s fine.” I shrugged.
“You know what? We must have a look at the other house first,” he said to me. To the agent, he said, “I will have my accountant and attorney contact you if we decide to buy it. You can send the deed to my office then.” And so we were off again.
The next two houses were actually great. They were definitely not as big as the other but they came close. Unfortunately, they were on the outskirts of the pack so we were back to the second house.
“We should grab a late lunch. It’s almost four and you haven’t eaten since breakfast,” Valens said, breaking the silence in the car.
I hadn’t? I didn’t notice. Sometime during the hours of house hunting, I’d drifted to my own world. I completely ignored what was going on around me. It led Valens to the conclusion that one of the house agents had offended me.
“We are close to the oracle, aren’t we?” I said rather than reply to him.
“Yes.” His eyes darted to me before going back to the road. “Are you upset that we will not be able to move today as I promised?” He asked, his eyes fixed ahead.
I did not actually expect we would get a house so soon. I knew when he promised yesterday that we would move into a new house today that he would be putting a lot of people under duress and we still would not be able to make it.
“I want to see the oracle,” I said instead.
If there was one thing I’d lost faith in over the years, it was the Moon Goddess. It was blasphemous to even have such a thought but I couldn’t help it. She’d failed me repeatedly over the years. Life continued to worsen for me but she never intervened no matter how much I prayed.
I used to pray a lot as a child because my mother encouraged it but the habit slowly faded away as the tears rolled by. I didn’t have enough time to sleep and the more chores piled on my plate, the less I found myself praying. When I first noticed myself drifting away from her, I’d been ashamed of myself. I saw it as the reason she’d abandoned me but it turned out I just wasn’t important to her.
“Do you have a request?” Valens asked.
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