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“Love you, too.”

When Jude and Angie headed toward one of the waiting UTVs, Kiara spotted Julian standing next to the other one, watching her. He wore sunglasses, so she couldn’t see his eyes, but he smiled as she walked to where he waited.

“Do you want a ride back to the house?” he asked, gesturing at the UTV.

“Which house?” she asked.

“Uh… our house?”

“Yep. I’ll take that ride.”

Julian waited as she climbed into the second row of seats, then settled in beside her. Anthony and another security team member drove them to the house.

“Wow,” Julian said a few minutes later, coming to a stop just inside the front door. He set his suitcase down and looked around. “This looks great. Are you happy with it?”

“I am. The designer did a great job with everything.”

“I’ll need to get the rest of my stuff from the big house,” Julian said, picking up his suitcase again. “I’m curious to see how my suite came together on such short notice.”

Kiara followed him through the door that led into his set of rooms, hoping he’d be happy with what he’d ended up with.

“Oh, very nice,” Julian said as he walked into his bedroom. “I ended up giving the designer a fair amount of leeway with decisions, and she didn’t disappoint.”

The designer had changed the paint color from the soft mauve Angie had wanted to a warm taupe that mixed well with the navy-blue accents of the room. It definitely had a masculine vibe when compared to what Angie had planned for the room.

Julian set his suitcase down by the dresser, then turned to face her. “Are you happy with your rooms?”

“I am,” Kiara said. “The nursery turned out really well too.”

“Would you mind showing it to me?” Julian asked.

“Not at all,” she said, then led him across the house to her suite.

Kiara was pleased that he was interested in seeing their son’s room. She didn’t know how involved he’d end up being once he was born, but she hoped Julian would be there for him as much as possible.

“I like the bears,” Julian said as he looked around the room. “Very cute.”

“I thought so. I had the option of zoo animals, but I liked the bears better.”

She made her way across the room and settled into the rocker next to the crib. Julian leaned against the doorjamb, his arms crossed.

“Did you pick out everything in here?” he asked.

“Essentially,” she said. “Megan would present me with two or three options, and I’d choose from them. And for this chair, she actually had three delivered and told me to pick the one that I found most comfortable. That ended up being this one. We ordered two of them. One for in here, and one for my bedroom.”

“Did you enjoy the process?”

“I did. Megan made it very easy. Maybe if she’d given me a ton of options, I would have gotten overwhelmed. Thankfully, I didn’t find it too difficult to select between two or three styles.”

“She didn’t really present me with any options.”

“Did she ask you if you wanted that?” Kiara asked as she set the chair into motion.

“Yes, but I told her to just go with what looked best.”

“I guess that explains why she asked me what I thought you might prefer for a few things.”

“And what did you tell her?”