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"I don’t knohat thatoverthe other dip down below to begin drawing those perfect circles, exactly where he kneould send

"It’s a kind ofback onto the pillow as he slid insideyou want Don’t you know that?" He groaned, scooping underht smack dab on the Carrara "I just need you" His eyes burned into mine, stor deeply, stringing e

It was those eyes that pushed e And when he followed, it was epic We lay together, tangled and out of breath Holding him closely, I whispered in his ear how reat this house, this home, would be

I only hoped I could , I got an e- home in three weeks

And in those weeks, s for s But not these last teeks No, sir It was like the design gods all gathered, rubbed their hands together, and said, "Let’s see hoe can fk up Caroline Reynolds"

And in case you’re wondering, there are in fact design gods And in case you’re wondering, yes, they’re fabulous

The new job I’d agreed to take on in Sausalito was initially supposed to be a kitchen re room remodel Which turned into "Couldn’t we maybe add French doors out to the patio?" and "I think we could use a new patio, don’t you?" and "I saw soht; could we put one of those over the patio?" This was all very good for the pocketbook, but it ay more work than I had planned on We revised the tian work on the almost total renovation that this project now required

We had a sprinklerin the entire third floor being flooded The sprinkler just went bananas one afternoon and sprayed for fifteen et it shut off Offices had to be aired out, a teaht in to dry out the carpets, and some of the year-end tax forms noere blurred beyond comprehension Luckily I had backup copies, but the panic I felt when I saw those forray hair ever

The damned art installation was finally installed in the lobby of the Clare, and dereed that the new art was better for the space, but now everything else needed to be reconfigured to acco place one loose thread on a sweater, and suddenly, poof, no sweater! And you’re standing nad in a new hotel with terrible lighting

I don’t have time for nad

Because the next blow to fall was that our building was indeed going condo After Jillian forwarded an e- on thewhich the building oould be co in to make repairs and updates to all the units

Sin reaffirn or no sign, I was now faced with a new ho to renovate top to botto to live in while it happened And with Jillian due ho

So now on top of everything else, we had to pack up both our aparte container until ere ready to move into the new house Seriously I hired help, of course, but I still needed to sort through things, purge things, and pack a few things on s in a woman’s apart

Nobody was getting their hands on my KitchenAid

So, to recap My already hectic work life was ra in a few days, and there were box fans all over the third floor of her office space in a historic Russian Hilla few hours I really didn’t have to pack upthrough a gut rehab

I was going to be living on-site during a gut rehab

Laugh all you want, design gods I could handle it

Right?

Brain laughed Backbone curled up like it had scoliosis Heart was still drawing her own iinary mirror in her new master bath

And Si up his apart a helluva lot of noise while doing it I was inthrough the wall A banging, if you will I s

Clive ju curiously at the wall

Pretty sure that so to coain Fat chance

I crossed to the shared wall, placing ht above his bed, and sure enough, I felt another thurabbedover there?

Taking apartflashbacks

His response was to bang on his wall again I banged back

Bang ba ba bang bang

Bang bang

I giggled, then listened Would he? Sure enough, a h the walls S apart his headboard Clive attacked a roll of bubble wrap and made it his bitch A few hours later, we met back in etting things ready to be ain?"

"Two days" I looked in my calendar to verify the date "So you need toyou don’t want in the container is alreadycare of everything else" It was still weird to think about the new house I al on One step at a ti over my shoulder at the calendar