“Good, because I know that wine won’t be able to hold a candle to your sweetness,” he says.
I let my head melt into the pillow and I close my eyes, but I don’t see colors, but I do see stars.
I see the star of my dreams when my head is up in the clouds and I see stars from the way his tongue is moving already.
“Seeing any colors?” he asks.
“Just one so far.”
“Which one?” he says in-between licks.
“Red…the color of my heart, my life, my love.”
He looks up at me from between my legs and then his big body slides back up in line with mine before he comes in from behind me, spooning me as we both look out the window.
Declan’s tongue is truly magical, but what’s even more incredible is his ability to read me. As much as I wanted to “see colors” right now I just want to be held by him and feel this moment.
To count my lucky stars before he shows them to me in a different way.
“It’s so beautiful out there in those mountains, isn’t it.”
“It is beautiful, but it could never compare to the girl whose name means beautiful, Bella.”
I roll my neck back and his lips meet mine as he holds my kiss with a panoramic view of Patagonia just out the window.
But the only thing I can see right now is red…the color of my heart, my love, my life.
Him.
“I love you,” he says as his lips separate just a fraction of an inch from mine.
“I love you,” I say softly.
And then our kiss resumes, so long that I lose track of time and fall asleep with his mouth on mine as he holds me in his arms.
Just where I belong…forever.
EXTENDED EPILOGUE
Declan
Ten more years later
“And then I was running after my puppy named Rusty. And then I tripped. And then I got this boo-boo,” the little girl named Jennifer says as she points to her knee.
“Oh no!” Bella says, raising her palms to her face.
“Uh huh,” the little girl says as she nods.
I look at the sheet her parent’s filled out and see that she’s five-years-old. It makes sense that Bella is so good with kids, considering we have three, so far, of our own.
“Can I take a look?” Bella asks.
“Yes, Doctor December,” she says.
It makes me so proud to hear people call her that. Doctor December. It’s the same thing they call me, because of course we share the same last name, and after eleven years she’s a doctor now too.
“Whoa!”
“Yeah, it hurts,” Jennifer says.
“I’m going to make it all better but first I need to make it hurt just a little, okay?”
The girl nods.
“Okay. This will sting a bit but I’ll be quick, and then you can pick out a bandage, okay?”
Jennifer nods again.
Bella dabs a cotton ball onto the top of a bottle of alcohol and rubs it on the girl’s cut.
I watch as she grits her teeth and tries her hardest not to cry. And she doesn’t. Little kids are so tough, especially some of these little girls we see. It makes me proud to know my kids display the same resiliency.
“Okay, great job!” Bella says and high fives Jennifer. “Now, let’s see which ones we have to choose from.”
Bella opens a plastic box which has a bunch of different bandages, but before she even has a chance to dig through them to show Jennifer what choices are available her hand is in there like it’s a cookie jar ten minutes before dinner time, grabbing the Aladdin one.
“Can I have this one?”
“You sure can. Want me to put it on?”
“I can do it,” she says.
I just shake my head. These darn resilient little girls. I love these little tigers.
Jennifer gets all fixed up and on her way.
“Five o’clock already,” I say looking at the clock.
“Today flew by,” Bella says.
“It sure did. Wonder how your dad is holding up with the kids.”
“Well, he’s got them for a couple more days and I think today was their zoo day. I bet they were a handful today.”
“Speaking of a handful,” I say as I put my hands on her breasts and lean in for a kiss.
“Doctor December, are you trying to…examine me?” she says.
“Is this against doctor patient relations?”
“I’m not sure how that works when both parties are doctors.”
“Hmmm,” I say. “Neither do I.”
I grab her by the hips and set her up on the examination table as our mouths devour each other’s.
We’ve been together twelve years now and I still can’t get enough of her.
And right now we’re both about to get the doctor fantasy.
That’s the way it works when you marry your perfect partner…your equal…and make her your own and she does the same to you.
There’s no better fit in the world for either of us than the other.
Doctor December and Doctor December…together forever and ever.
I may have been found in December, but I really found myself when I found her.
And now we share the same last name and a beautiful home full of kids.
Kids that we “doctor up” when they fall.
Kids that make our hearts beat so loud and proud you’d never need a stethoscope to hear them.
And that’s exactly what life, and being a doctor, is all about. Keeping the human body running so we can spend as much quality time as we can with the ones we love.
Lucky for me I’ve got the perfect family to love always.
My beautiful family and it all starts with my beautiful Bella.
A MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS
Book 1: Baby Lust
Book 2: Veteran
Book 3: Built
Book 4: Bambino
Book 5: Rescued
Book 6: Leader
Book 7: Professor
Book 8: Burned
Book 9: Worldly
Book 10: Pistol
Book 11: Policed
Book 12: Driven
Book 13: Lucky 13
Book 14: Lumberjacked
Book 15: Protector
Book 16: Carpenter
Book 17: Italian Stallion
Book 18: Gardener
Book 19: Budapest Billionaire’s Virgin
Book 20: Billionaire’s Babysitter
Book 21: Cocky CFO
Book 22: Fireman’s Filthy 4th
Book 23: Mechanic
Book 24: SEAL’s Secret
Book 25: Police, Pooch, and Smooch
Book 26: Fireman’s Fake Fiancée
Book 27: Billionaire’s Virgin Ballerina
Book 28: Bitcoin Billionaire’s Babysitter
Book 29: Veterans Day Daddy
Book 30: Cowboy’s Christmas Carol
Book 31: Police Officer’s Princess
Book 32: Statham
Book 33: Bodyguard
Book 34: Greek God
Book 35: Billionaire Single Dad's Babysitter
Book 36: Mountain Man
Book 37: SEAL’s Justice
Book 38: Royal Romance
Book 39: Doctor Mountain Man’s Special Delivery
Book 40: Crocodile Dan D
Book 41: Mountain Man’s Secret Baby
Book 42: Doctor Bad Boy’s Secret Baby
Book 43: Cop’s Babysitter
Book 44: Nanny for the Cop Next Door
Book 45: Small Town SEAL’s Saving Grace
Book 46: Cop’s Fake Fiancée
Book 47: Billionaire’s Nanny
Book 48: Cowboy’s Babysitter
Book 49: Steamy
Book 50: Brother’s Best Friend
Book 51: Possessive Professor
Book 52: Firefighter’s Babysitter
Book 53: Soldier’s Secret Baby
Book 54: Ward’s Independence Day
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Book 55: Doctor Next Door
Book 56: Possessive Policeman
Book 57: Coached by the MMA Fighter
Book 58: Boss’s Babysitter
Book 59: Virgin in New York
Book 60: Rock Star’s Baby
Book 61: Possessive Protector
Book 62: Possessive Australian
Book 63: Best Friend’s Brother
Book 64: Possessive Cowboy
Book 65: Summer Romanced
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Book 67: Lovers’s Enemy
Book 68: Cop’s Best Friend
Book 69: Possessive Firefighter
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