He looked at her for a long moment. Then he nodded.
“You really do know. Everything. All my secrets. All my…sins?”
“Evie…”
She cast her gaze down. “I suppose I should be grateful, shouldn’t I? Because what happened between us was a miracle, wasn’t it?”
“Naw.”
She looked up at him then. “What do you mean?”
“It was just love, Evie. Love. That’s all.”
“Oh, Erik…”
He held out his arms to her. With a glad cry, she ran to him.
Their kiss was long and sweet. Soon enough, she was helping him out of his painter’s overalls. They fell on the couch together, the sunlight streaming in to bathe their bodies in warm gold.
Evie clutched her husband’s back as she cried out in love and joy.
And afterward, when they lay holding each other close on that couch, waiting for their heartbeats to slow a little, Evie thought of the miracle that was her life. Somehow, she had become what she’d never dared to dream she might be: an ordinary woman, loving and loved.
Evie snuggled closer to Erik and his arms tightened around her in response. Sighing in contentment, she recalled one of the visions she’d had, that day in her shop when Erik had grabbed her arm: a vision of the two of them, making love right here, in the sun. Until now, it had been the only vision from that day that remained unfulfilled.
Wonder stole through Evie. She knew then that the chains of the past had fallen away for good and all. What endured was love. Evangeline’s final unexplained vision had found its true meaning at last.
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THE MAN, THE MOON AND THE MARRIAGE VOW
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