After the Storm

by Janet Dailey

  "It's you I love, Rad. I always have," she insisted.

  He continued to stare at her, his gaze gradually softening as he read the affirmation in her face. A smile spread across his face.

  "It is true," he whispered. "You do love me." He threw back his head and laughed. "I thought it was Lee you were admitting you loved when I overheard you talking in the hospital. I knew you'd just been with him in the corridor and Ann said she wished you'd never seen him at the concert."

  He drew her into his arms. He held her so tightly that Lainie could hardly breathe, but she didn't care a bit. She felt him shudder against her and knew he was thinking the same thing that she was.

  "What fools we've been, darling," he whispered into her hair. "We nearly ruined our whole lives."

  "But we didn't, Rad." Her hands reached up to his face, her fingers touching the remnants of tears on his cheeks. "We have the rest of it."

  His mouth covered her lips in a kiss that was unbelievably tender. And though Lainie's eyes were closed, a rainbow seemed to be shining in the heavens, piercing the thunderclouds.

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