He cupped his palms around her shoulders, turning her to face him. “Like it?” he asked, hope and love shining in the depths of his eyes.
She pressed her lips together and nodded, afraid to speak. God, pregnancy had made her so emotional! Or maybe it was her incredible love for Ethan that had her bursting into tears of joy over the silliest things.
Raising her gaze to meet his, her voice choked with emotion, she whispered, “I love you so much.”
His eyes grew serious as his hands slid up to cup her face. Bending his head, he placed a lingering kiss on her mouth.
“And please to remember, Grasshopper, I love you.” Then, with a calculating look in his eye, he murmured tenderly, “Are you sure we don’t have time?”
About the Author
MARIANNE STILLINGS has loved stories with happy endings since she was three years old and her mother read her The Little Golden Book of The Ugly Duckling. Originally from California, these days she lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she’s the single mom of two fantastic daughters, and where she takes shelter from the rain by writing happy endings of her own.
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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