"Have You Seen Her?" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rose Karen)Epilogue "Is it always like this?" Jenna asked, humored exhaustion in her voice. She and Steven sat on the sofa looking out at the sea of wrapping paper covering the living room. Steven put his arm around her shoulders and pulled her closer to him, enjoying the scent of coconuts and the feel of her breast pushed against his side. "Sure. This was actually pretty tame." At that moment Cindy Lou tore out of the kitchen through the living room sending wrapping paper everywhere. Nicky ran after her, Jim and Jean-Luc at his heels. His boy was happy, laughing. And sleeping through the night in his new bed shaped like a car. Brad had sent out his college applications and now his only reason to frown was over which school he would choose when he was accepted. Matt… was Matt. And Steven was awfully glad it was so. No traumas, not yet anyway, except Matt had brought a girl to the Christmas party they'd had the weekend before. Scary. Jenna snuggled closer against him. "I saw the postcard you got from Helen." "The one with the naked natives?" Steven asked wryly. Jenna choked. "No. I saw the one of the safari truck on the Serengeti plain." She looked up at him with a naughty grin. "Where'd you hide the one with the naked natives?" "For you to find later." He kissed her and she settled into him like warm honey. "How'd you like your presents?" Her eyes softened. "I thought I was going to cry." She was thinking about Nicky's gift then, not the one he'd given her. That fact made him love her even more. What kind of woman would get excited over a seven-year-old's handmade storybook populated with kissing llamas, yodeling rhinos, and glue-eating kangaroos? A mother would, that's who. She leaned forward and plucked the book from the top of her small pile of gifts and opened it once again to the last page where Nicky had scrawled in purple crayon, Steven pulled her close again and kissed the top of her head where her hair had grown just long enough to be considered very stylish. "If I'd known you were that easy to please I'd have made the plane tickets with crayon myself." She looked back up at him and her eyes sparkled. "I can't believe it. You're really going to take off two whole weeks to go to Hawaii with me?" Her violet eyes narrowed. "What catch? Kent and Harry are not coming." He drew a breath, then spit it out. "I want it to be our honeymoon trip." Her eyes widened. "Your logic appears to be flawed, Special Agent Man," she said lightly. "We can't go on a honeymoon unless we've had a wedding first." He didn't take his eyes off hers and in two long beats of his heart, all teasing fled and her eyes heated. "Marry me, Jenna. Be my family." "Yes," she whispered. "It's all I've ever wanted. You're all I've ever wanted. I love you." He fumbled in his pocket for the simple but elegant diamond ring that had been all but burning his skin all morning, brought it out, slid it on her finger. "I love you, too." But she didn't look at the ring, just kept looking into his eyes. As if she couldn't get enough of him. And he knew that this time, with this woman, he'd done it right. |
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