Page 43 of Knottily Ever After (Crescent Lake Cozy Omegaverse #1)

Chapter Forty-Two

Quinn

“ I ’m telling you, it’s perfect.”

I wasn’t going to bring it up until tomorrow, but I was scared the opportunity would pass us by if I waited.

We’d just finished taking some posed photos, each of us with Vi, then all together, the last photos of us Alphas holding the panel of cloth on Vi’s dress that matched our shirts.

The proofs were beyond compare. I couldn’t be happier. And I can’t wait to have the prints framed and plastered all over our house.

Hopefully, our new house.

While Violet chats and dances with her friends, me, Vaughn, and Ben stand off to the side where I hold my phone out to the two of them.

Vaughn grabs it, and Ben gets close as he swipes through the photos of the listing.

“Wow,” Ben whistles.

“It’s right on the outskirts of town,” Vaughn says absently as he continues to scroll. “We’ve passed this house countless times. I always thought it looked nice, but I never imagined the inside…”

These are the reactions I’d been hoping for.

“We’d need to do some work,” I say and take my phone back to load the upstairs blueprints, hand it back to Vaughn and gesture at the screen while I go on.

“These two bedrooms have en suite bathrooms, but these two share one. This one,” I point, “is next to a laundry room. But,” I swipe the picture to the ground floor blueprint, “right below it is the three-car garage.”

“We can convert the back into a laundry room and convert the current laundry into a bathroom,” Ben supplies.

“Exactly.” I clap my hands and look at them expectantly.

When there’s no immediate reaction, I jump back in.

“And there is a huge office downstairs.” I flip the pictures again and show them the room with built-in bookcases on all the walls, save the one with a window, where we’d obviously put Violet’s desk.

Vaughn and Ben look at each other then, and I know I’ve got them when Vaughn breaks into a smile, chuckling and shaking his head. “You did great, Quinn.” A swell of pride fills my chest.

“Yeah, man,” Ben chimes. “And I’m sure Steve can help with the loan.”

“Already ahead of you there,” I say with a grin. “We just have to say the word, and he’ll start the process.”

“Well, hang on,” Vaughn, the eternal buzzkill, says. “We do have to run this by Violet first.”

“Why?” I ask in a rush. “Why can’t this be a surprise?”

Both of them give me a “You can’t be serious” look, and I sigh, shoulder drooping. “I wanted to surprise her,” I grumble.

“I get it,” Ben says, “but this is all of our life now. Together. Violet needs to be included.”

“Included in what?”

And, right on cue, our gorgeous Omega joins us with a sly smile.

“You three over here, conspiring in a dark corner alone, spells trouble,” she wags her finger at us. “What are you plotting?”

We glance at each other a moment, then Vaughn hands her my phone without a word. She looks at it, head tilting as she scrolls and taps, brows furrowing, then eyes widening, lips parting.

“This is beautiful,” she says. “And it’s here in town?”

“On the outskirts,” I tell her. “Less than a ten-minute walk from Main Street, so we’d still all be able to walk to work.”

She freezes, wide eyes on me, then Vaughn, then Ben. “Are you…?” She blinks, tries again. “Do you want to buy this house? For us to live in?”

Ben smiles and nods. “If that’s something you’d like, too.”

“We’d have to do some work on the inside before we move in,” I say in a rush.

“So we’ll stay at the apartment until then,” Vaughn says.

Violet’s smile is so big, I fear her face will crack. Then, she throws herself at us with an ear-piercing shriek. “I love you!”

I laugh and squeeze her middle. “Does that mean yes?”

“We should look at it in person first,” Vaughn warns, and I sigh.

Violet huffs a laugh. “Think they’ll show it tomorrow?”

I take my phone back and fire off a message through the app. “Only one way to find out.”

It doesn’t take long for Hector, one of the only real estate agents in town, to give me a call.

We schedule for the following afternoon, despite the night we’re sure to have after the reception is over.

And when we view the place, it’s decided:

This is where we want to spend our lives together.