by Paula Roe
“Okay,” she whispered, slowly opening her eyes. “You’ve got me. Only because you never didn’t have me. I’ve never stopped loving you, Finn. These past weeks only proved that. I know you’ve changed. I saw it every day. I just didn’t want to believe until now.”
He reached out and gently swiped away the track of tears from her cheek.
“I always seem to be crying around you.” She gave a watery laugh.
With her heart thumping like a winter thunderstorm, his lips came down to softly tease hers. “Sad, lille skat?”
“No. It’s these damned hormones.”
He chuckled. “It’s not me?”
“It’s you, Finn. It’s always been you.”
Then she kissed him—deeply, thoroughly, with all the longing and desperation of the past months spent apart and alone. She kissed him, knowing beyond a doubt this time that they were absolutely made for each other.
“I have a few conditions,” she finally said after a long moment.
“Yes?”
“That we won’t let an argument come between us again.”
“Done.”
“And that work stays at work. Weekends, evenings are ours.”
“Of course. That it?”
She nodded and his arms tightened, hands sweeping up her back and into her hair. “Now say you love me again,” he murmured against her mouth.
As his palms cupped her face she linked her fingers in his, heat covering heat. “Jeg elsker dig.”
He kissed her cheeks with such incredible tenderness that she thought her heart would explode right out through her ribcage with joy.
Her Danish Viking. Her heart soared for the glorious future ahead of them, blood pounding so hard she could hear it reverberating in her head.
His hand swept down to her stomach, to the tiny life that was growing inside her, and his eyes reflected such love, such elation, that her whole body ached just to look at him.
“And I love you, Alexandra McKnight,” he said softly, the curve of his smile against her lips. “Be prepared to hear it often.”
Epilogue
Nikolai Jakob Sørensen screamed his way into the world, arms flailing and fists clenched in glorious newborn anger.
Ally dragged her gaze away from the wonder of her perfect, pink, scrunched-up son to her husband, his face flushed with bursting pride, fingers touching Nikolai’s tiny hands in gentle wonderment.
At the sight of his large, strong hand stroking her son’s fragile one, her chest swelled with so much love that her breath hitched thickly in her throat. The emotion on Finn’s face twisted his features into something so wondrous that she thought she’d burst into tears right then and there.
Then he met her gaze and smiled. In that smile she saw such love, such happiness, that she felt completely and utterly content.
“Your mother and grandma are waiting outside,” the midwife interrupted gently. “Shall I let them in?”
“Not yet,” Ally answered, her damp eyes still on her husband. “I just want to enjoy the moment a bit longer.”
“Happy, lille skat?” Finn tucked a damp curl behind her ear.
“Perfect. I have a baby, a beautiful home, a shiny two-book contract, a syndicated column and a successful, gorgeous husband with a flourishing jewelry business. What more could I want?”
“I’m after the book contract?” he teased.
Her answering laugh was cut short when their lips met over their baby’s head to seal the perfect moment with a perfect kiss.
ISBN: 978-1-4268-0543-1
FORGOTTEN MARRIAGE
Copyright © 2007 by Paula Roe
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