After the Storm (The Americana Series Book 6)
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"Go!" he ordered. "I'm sure Walters is waiting for you for you and your two boys and a girl!"
"Darling," Lainie breathed, and felt the constriction of his body at her words. "Lee isn't waiting for me. And certainly not for 'our' three children. As their future father, you might have something to say about it."
This time Rad turned and stared deeply into her face and the love light that shone out of her eyes. His hands reached up and gripped her shoulders with the fierceness of a man holding on to a lifeline. Lainie could still see the shadows of doubt in his dark eyes and in the harsh lines of disbelief on his face.
"It's you I love, Rad. I always have," she insisted.
He continued to stare at her, his gaze gradually softening as he read the affirmation in her face. A smile spread across his face.
"It is true," he whispered. "You do love me." He threw back his head and laughed. "I thought it was Lee you were admitting you loved when I overheard you talking in the hospital. I knew you'd just been with him in the corridor and Ann said she wished you'd never seen him at the concert.”
He drew her into his arms. He held her so tightly that Lainie could hardly breathe, but she didn't care a bit. She felt him shudder against her and knew he was thinking the same thing that she was.
"What fools we've been, darling," he whispered into her hair. "We nearly ruined our whole lives."
"But we didn't, Rad." Her hands reached up to his face, her fingers touching the remnants of tears on his cheeks. "We have the rest of it."
His mouth covered her lips in a kiss that was unbelievably tender. And though Lainie's eyes were closed, a rainbow seemed to be shining in the heavens, piercing the thunderclouds.
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