All They Need
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A distinctive engine noise drifted on the breeze and she turned toward the main gate as the Aston Martin drove into sight. Her heart did a little skip-jump in her chest, as it always did when her man came home. He saw her and braked to a halt beside the house rather than drive around to the garage.
“You made it,” she said, walking to join him as he got out of the car.
“I did. I had the world’s best incentive—an extra two hours with you.”
She smiled and reached out to loosen his tie for him. “How was your day?”
“Busy. What about yours?”
“The tiler is almost finished. We should have the house to ourselves by Friday.”
He smiled. “Promises, promises.”
She matched his smile and kissed him. As always, desire stirred as he pulled her into his arms, but it was tempered with knowledge and love and certainty that hadn’t been there a year ago.
She knew this man, and he knew her. She believed in him. She believed in them. She touched his face as they broke their kiss.
“You make me so happy,” she said quietly.
It felt like a small miracle that she could say those words so easily, so truthfully.
His eyes were a warm, deep blue. “I love you.”
“I know. I love you, too.”
More and more every day.
He slid his arms around her shoulder. “Let’s go admire our garden,” he said.
“Okay.”
“And if you’re very good, I’ll let you take my clothes off and have your way with me beneath the trees in the orchard grove.”
“That’s very generous of you,” she said, not even trying to hide her grin.
“I’m a generous man. Ask anyone.”
She wrapped her arm around his waist and they fell into step with one another.
“I don’t need to.”
She didn’t, either. She knew he was generous, just as she knew he was good and a whole other host of wonderful things.
But most of all, she knew he was hers, the same way she was his. It had taken her a while to understand, to get past her fear, to believe. But she’d gotten there in the end. And he’d been waiting for her with open arms.
Laughing and talking, they walked into their garden.
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ALL THEY NEED
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