Before I Let You Go
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“Then how about we start saying good-night to our guests then retire?” His words caused a tingling in her chest. Tonight she would be making love to her husband.
“Sounds good to me.” They had a suite upstairs for the night, then tomorrow morning they were leaving for a long cruise to Alaska. When she’d planned the trip she didn’t care where they went as long as they were together. They figured they would spend much of the eleven-day voyage in bed.
They cut the cake, then danced to a few more songs before saying their goodbyes. Kelly kissed her mother, who was crying, and started crying again herself.
“You take care of my little girl,” her mother told Diamere.
“With all my heart,” he replied, then kissed her cheek before taking his wife’s hand and leading her out of the ballroom and up to the penthouse. The wedding and room had been a gift from the Beaumont family. Diamere and Kelly rode up in the elevator and stopped at the sixteenth floor, which opened right into their luxurious suite.
“Wait a second,” Diamere said before Kelly moved another step forward. He scooped his bride into his arms and carried her across the threshold into the elegant cream-and-peach room.
Kelly stared adoringly up at her husband with her arms draped around his neck. “Don’t hurt your back.”
“Don’t worry. Nothing is stopping me from making love to my wife.” He pressed his lips to hers, then gently lowered her onto the bed and lay down beside her, pushing her gown to the side. Kelly hadn’t thought she could ever feel this much happiness, could ever be this much in love. Diamere completed her.
“I’ve got something for you,” he said as he slid from the bed and moved over to his suitcase, delivered by one of the bellhops earlier. Kelly sat up in bed and waited, her mind burning with curiosity. Diamere came back bearing a small gold box.
“Here, for you,” he said as he took a seat beside her. She glanced down at the box and then up at him again. “It’s a wedding present.”
She opened it to find an exquisite tennis bracelet with diamonds and sapphires. Kelly gasped. “It’s beautiful.”
“Something beautiful for the most important person in my life.”
She held out her arm while he put it around her wrist and secured the clasp. Diamere then pulled her into his arms and kissed her. “I can’t wait until we leave tomorrow. I get to have you all to myself for the next eleven days.”
Kelly gave her husband a sheepish grin as she said, “I guess we better enjoy it while we can, because in seven months there’ll be a new addition to the family.”
Diamere grasped her chin and tilted her face so that she was looking up at him. “What did you say?”
Kelly could tell he was holding his breath, hoping he had heard what he thought he had. She knew Diamere wanted children, the more the merrier. He was going to make a wonderful father and she couldn’t wait to be a mother. “You heard me. We’re going to have a baby.”
Diamere jumped from the bed and shouted in happiness. Then, suddenly remembering his beautiful bride, he sank down beside her and cradled her in his arms. “Sweetheart, are you okay? Do you need anything?”
Kelly stared up at her husband with a look of adoration as she shook her head. “Everything I need is right here in front of me.” As long as she had him she would never want for anything.
“I love you, Mrs. Redmond,” he said as he kissed her again.
A single tear slid from the corner of her eye. “And I love you.”
ISBN: 978-1-4268-5014-1
BEFORE I LET YOU GO
Copyright © 2010 by Angie Daniels
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