Love doesn't have to be hard

Chapter 33: Tessa is Exhausted

Six Months later:

Zed's POV:

Tessa is almost eight months pregnant. She is working a lot even tho I have told her to relax. She goes to work and takes Liam with her. 

She works from eight until six or seven, comes home, cooks dinner, cleans the dishes, and then bathes Liam while I am taking a shower.

We have had several disagreements on her working so much but she is so stubborn. Kim and Christian come in a couple of times a month to visit and check on the office. 

Trevor and Krystal are due two weeks before us. We are expecting a daughter. We have decided to name her Isabel Renee. 

We are hoping our house is completed before she is born. The outside is done, the driveway is paved, and they have wired the house and placed the lights. Currently they are working on installing the cabinets throughout the house and painting the house. Once they get that finished, then, they will install the sconces and lighting we ordered.

The electricity and water are both working the flooring has to be installed. It is looking perfect. I stop by a couple of times a week just to check on the progress. The fence is being installed this weekend. 

Gary, who is in charge of the project, said he is hoping it will be completed and move-in ready in two weeks.

We have purchased all the furniture, we saved our first three checks, and went shopping. Tessa was having a blast picking out everything. This is her dream house. I want it to be exactly what she wants.

I let her pick the interior colors, and once we are able to move in, we are hoping to be able to have her baby shower in our new home. Nora and Kimberly have been bugging us about doing it before the baby is born. 

We spent our first few weeks going to all the places neither of us had been. We went to Philadelphia and Pittsburg, we went to New York City, down to Maryland, and Washington DC, and then to Conneticut and Boston.   

Liam loved the family road trip; we visited Uncle Landon and Aunt Nora. Hardin has flown in once with Molly and the other times by himself. I thought they were doing good but maybe I was wrong. 

He published a book about his life and how it was before he met Tessa. How he regretted losing her and how he wished it could have been different. He included everything that happened between them and even about how she and I had gotten together. That after she married me, and he got over being pissed off. He could see that we were really meant to be. 

She may not tell you that so much right now, as we have been arguing a lot over her working so much. No matter what, I love her. I just wished she would relax and enjoy her time rather than being so stressed.

She enjoys it when we argue, and I get so mad. She will strip her clothes off and say shut up, and make me feel good. Needless to say, our sex life is amazing with all the arguing. I told her I was just worried about her. 

Technically, the payments on the house don't start until three months after we move in, but we have been making payments every month since the third month we moved here. Our interest charges don't start until next year, and by that time, we will have already knocked the principal amount down by sixty-four thousand. 

Our payments are supposed to be twenty-two hundred and fifty per month. We are paying four thousand, so for each payment, we are knocking an additional seventeen fifty down on principle.

This means we should have our house paid off in a little over ten years, which will save us some on the interest each month. Our interest lowers on the amount owed.