CHAPTER 10

TESSIE'S POV

On Friday evening, I made my way downstairs to help my dad with dinner as always. It was probably the last day I was going to since he now had a partner for everything. Cooking, dates, golfing... I didn't even know he was such a sporty man until Diane showed up. They were inseparable and it was almost hard to watch.

Scratch that. It was hard to watch especially since I couldn't look at how happy they were and not feel like I was sabotaging that by having unfiltered feelings for her son. It had been days since Jace kissed me and even though I had managed to avoid him in every possible way, that kiss had stubbornly refused to budge. It was a part of me whether consciously or in my dreams at night. I felt him everywhere clinging to me like a bad plague. Except that I didn't hate it.

I stopped abruptly at the top of the stairs, my gaze caught in the scene in my living room lobby. There were stacks of boxes and men bringing in more, evidence of someone moving in. Was it time