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They ate a quick lunch and then settled on the balcony overlooking Chicago.
“Your father would be proud of you,” Cap told her.
Ava glanced at him. “Why? And why should I care? He’s a traitor.”
“Everything he did for you and Olivia, to keep you safe. The Chinese threatened your lives if he didn’t see things through. He loved you both with all he was.”
“You’re being serious?” she asked, hope a thread in her voice.
“Yeah, babe, I’m being serious. Your dad’s last words to me were to protect you and Olivia. What the world will never know is that he didn’t give them the information they wanted, instead hiding it in those statues he gave you. He gave his life protecting the country that now vilifies him.”
“One day, I’ll make it right for him,” Ava promised in a voice filled with tears. “What’s going on with Olivia?”
“Nothing yet, Holland is still trying to locate her. If she’s in New Orleans he’ll find her.”
Ava nodded and looked out over Chicago. “What about us?”
Cap turned and looked at her. “What about us?”
“You know what I’m asking,” she said and frustration rang in her tone.
“If you’re asking if you’re mine then the answer is unequivocally yes. I think I told you mind, body, heart and soul,” Cap said firmly.
She nodded at that and something in Cap’s chest eased.
“So you’re admitting it?” he asked.
She smiled. “I’d be a fool not to,” she responded. “You searched for me for two years straight. When I needed you, you were there, hell, you still are. You already had my body, heart and soul…you’ve conquered my mind with relative ease.”
Cap chuckled. “There was nothing easy about it.”
“Touché,” she said with a laugh of her own.
“Come here,” he commanded.
She did as he asked and sat in his lap.
“Let’s just sit here for a while and look out over the city, shall we?”
“Cap,” she replied, “I’d sit anywhere with you.”
And he knew in his heart of hearts she would. They still had things to work out between them—he still had amends to make for lying to her, but they were on the right track.
“I will always love you, Ava Maddigan. Finding you was my mission—I couldn’t let you go,” he told her.
“I never stopped loving you, Captain Jacobs. No matter how angry I was, I never stopped,” she assured him.
And so they spent the rest of the night looking out over Chicago. Then they made love until the wee hours of the morning resting finally in each other.
The End
