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at the base of the glass wall, there was a very
deep bathtub, complete with jets and a wide ledge scattered with
candles of various sizes.
    Alex cleared his throat.
“There is a room straight across the hall that we can make into a
nursery; would you like to see that now too?”
    “ Yes,” she managed to
say.
    When he opened the door to
the room across the hall, they set their eyes on a room painted a
pale green with white accents.
    “ We will have to take out
the bed to make enough room for the crib, but I think most
everything else can stay.”
    “ Yes.”
    “ Isabella, are you
alright?”
    She snapped out of it with
some embarrassment. “I am so sorry; it’s just that I never thought
that I would be living in a place like this. It is so
beautiful.”
    And now there is beauty to fill
it .
    “ Thank you. You know, I
decorated all of this.” He waved his free arm around.
    She raised her eyebrows.
“Were these rooms designed for a particular person?”
    He could hear the
curiosity dripping in her voice. “No. I only thought that one day I
may have a lady visitor and she would be happy in a feminine room.
And you, lucky lady, just so happen to be the first
one.”
    “ Oh, I feel extra lucky,
then,” she said teasingly.
    “ Well, you probably want
to get settled, and I have some things to do, so I am going to
leave you two, ok?”
    “ We’ll be fine.” She held
out her arms for Jaiden.
    Softly, he placed Jaiden
into Isabella’s waiting arms.
    “ Good night,
Alex.”
    He stayed in the hallway
until she had gone into the room across the hall and closed the
door behind her.
     
    10
     
    The next night when Alex opened
his eyes, he felt something which he had not felt for years:
excitement. He actually wanted to get up and find Isabella and Jaiden. It was
terribly weird that in the middle of everything going on he felt so
good.
    He dressed and went to the
kitchen where a fresh pot of coffee awaited him. He peeked into the
den, then the sitting room, and finally found them in the sun room.
Although he didn’t technically need to eat or drink human food,
coffee was a treat he favored and adored the scent of.
    He began to enter the room
and stopped short in the doorway, unable to say a word. Isabella
sat on an antique iron bench with Jaiden in her arms, singing a
children’s lullaby.
    Fully bloomed roses of red
and white formed a half circle around them while ivy climbed wildly
up the gray stone walls. The moon glowed brightly through the large
windows, reflecting off her blond hair as well as Jaiden’s sleeping
face, causing them to appear dreamlike.
    This is it, now it’s a done
deal. Seeing them like this is almost straight out of a love
story . He
had gone and done it; he had fallen in love with her.
    It won’t be long before I fall
in love with Jaiden too. If only I hadn’t lost everything I ever
loved, it would be so much easier .
    The door bell rang and his
trance was broken. Isabella turned and saw him watching her. Their
eyes met and he could tell she was not nearly as embarrassed as he
was.
    Alex turned quickly to
answer the bell. When he opened the door, Chris stood on the stoop.
He looked uncomfortable in the business suit he had to wear for
work.
    “ Hey, Alex.”
    “ Come in, Chris. Sorry I
haven’t been in touch; I’ve been pretty busy lately.”
    “ What’s wrong with
you?”
    “ What do you mean?” Alex
widened his eyes innocently.
    “ You
look…happy.”
    “ You must be imagining
things. Remember, I’m a boring, no fun kind of guy,” he said
teasingly with a bland voice.
    “ Stop it, you’re scaring
me.”
    Alex chuckled lightly and
waved Chris inside. “Come on, I’ll tell you everything.”
    Once they were in the
sitting room, Chris folded his long figure into a chair while Alex
stood next to the fire place.
    After Alex had explained
the entire situation in excruciating detail, Chris jumped up from
the couch.
    “ You brought home a human baby?”
    He spat the words out