by Sable Hunter
Blade could hear the fear in her voice. “Sure, baby, whatever you want.” He felt a niggle of unease. He’d been talking a big game, but in reality, he was helpless to do anything more than to will her to live and pray for her safety. If there was some Herculean task he could perform to buy her time and healing, he would do anything, go anywhere, fight any battle he could to pay the price of Lily’s life.
For long moments, they held one another, the only sound in the room was their breathing and the buzz of the lights overhead.
“Mr. and Mrs. Jensen?”
Lily jerked in Blade’s arms.
“Dr. Fields,” she murmured, shifting to move to her own chair, “I’m sorry.”
He gave a light chuckle. “Oh, don’t be. I understand you two are newlyweds. Congratulations.”
“Thanks,” Blade acknowledged his remark. His hands were shaking as badly as Lily’s.
“What did you find?” Lily asked, clutching Blade’s hand for strength. She didn’t think she could stand the suspense one more second.
“Well…” the doctor opened a folder and took out an X-ray, “I’m happy to tell you the tumor has shrunk. The glioblastoma was the size of a tennis ball and now it’s the size of a pea.”
Relief washed over Blade like a summer rain. “It worked.”
Lily bent double, her breath flowing from her lungs in such a rush of release that she almost collapsed with relief. “I’m going to live.”
Dr. Fields held up his hand. “Let me be clear, it looks good. There are no guarantees, however. We have seen patients have their tumors disappear, not to return to this day. We have seen patients have their tumors reoccur. At this moment, your glioblastoma seems to be shrinking at such a rate that it will be gone in a matter of weeks.” He smiled at their expressions. “I’ll need for you to come back. We will have to closely monitor this. We won’t know anything for sure for some time.”
“There’s a chance though, isn’t there? A bigger chance that I’ll live, a bigger chance than before the procedure.”
Blade could hear the dawning hope in Lily’s voice and he could see the cautiously optimistic light on the doctor’s face. He closed his eyes in thankful prayer as Dr. Fields answered Lily’s question.
“Yes, you have a very good chance at a normal life.”
A normal life.
When they were through, Blade took Lily by the hand and they walked out into the sunshine of a new day. There, with his arm around the woman he loved, he made a promise. “We’ve been given a second chance at life, Lily. We’re not going to waste a day. I don’t want your life to be normal, I want it to be amazing.” He grabbed her around the waist and swung her up in the air to catch her in his arms. “I want it to be magical and I want you to spend every day of your life with me.”
*
Ten years later…
“I enjoyed going back to Australia. I think I have a better time each trip.” Lily held onto Blade’s arm as they walked along the beach of St. Phillips, the same beach where they’d fallen in love. “It’s always good to come home though, isn’t it? I’m glad Isaiah and Bliss let us come to Lili for a few days to celebrate our anniversary.”
“True, and I’m thankful Glory and T didn’t mind keeping our kids. Alexander, Iris, and James can be a handful.” Blade kicked up the sand as he walked. “Are you happy, Lily?” He glanced down into her beautiful face.
“I’m so happy I can’t contain it all.” She turned into his arms. “My love keeps bubbling out with kisses.” She layered his mouth with hers, giving him a kiss, then whispered in a conspiratorial tone, “I have a gift for you.”
He tried to act surprised, he didn’t know if she remembered, but this was something he’d read in her Wish Book, another one of those things that he was very careful to bring to fruition. “A gift for me?”
“Yes.” She pulled the watch from her pocket and slipped it over his hand to fasten it around his wrist. “I had it engraved.”
“What does it say?” he admired the beautiful gold face and the finely crafted leather band.
“It says I love you more than life. You have made all my dreams come true.”
His heart grew warm at the remembered words. “The same is true for me. You’ve given me more happiness than I ever thought possible.” He crushed her to him, so hard the air was pushed from her lungs.
“I have another gift for you too,” she whispered.
“Hey, it’s my turn.” He reached into his pocket and pulled out a diamond tennis bracelet. “You can’t have all the fun.”
“Oh, thank you! How beautiful!” She watched his face as he fastened the gorgeous bracelet on her arm.
“Nothing’s too much for you, my Lily.”
Seeing the love on his face, she wanted to give him everything in her power. “We’re having another baby, Blade.”
“Another one!” He laughed with joy and picked her up, holding her high over his head. “I am thrilled! What will we name this one? There’s not another name in your Wish Book.” He let her slide down his body, then he cradled her close.
“I don’t know, we have time, we’ll think of something.” She rested in his arms in supreme contentment.
“Yes, we have time, Lily. We have all the time in the world.”
While the waves rushed to shore, they walked hand in hand toward the sunset, knowing their love was much more than a mirage.
THE END
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sable Hunter is a New York Times, USA Today bestselling author of nearly 60 books in 9 series. She writes sexy contemporary stories full of emotion and suspense. Her focus is mainly cowboy and novels set in Louisiana with a hint of the supernatural. Sable writes what she likes to read and enjoys putting her fantasies on paper. Her books are emotional tales where the heroine is faced with challenges. Her aim is to write a story that will make you laugh, cry and swoon. If she can wring those emotions from a reader, she has done her job. Sable resides in Austin, Texas with her two dogs. Passionate about all animals, she has been known to charm creatures from a one-ton bull to a family of raccoons. For fun, Sable haunts cemeteries and battlefields armed with night-vision cameras and digital recorders hunting proof that love survives beyond the grave. Welcome to her world of magic, alpha heroes, sexy cowboys and hot, steamy to-die-for sex. Step into the shoes of her heroines and escape to places where right prevails, love conquers all and holding out for a hero is not an impossible dream