“Or him,” Jack interjects.
“To you with all the tough questions,” Nora finishes. “Since you’re so good at them.”
As everyone chuckles, Elle snuggles against me and rests her head on my shoulder. Then she lifts her gaze to meet mine.
“We really are lucky, aren’t we?” she asks. “Being here with you, and Noel, and all our friends… I have everything I ever wanted.”
Looking into her eyes, love sweeps through me with such intensity it leaves me breathless. “We really are lucky.”
She leans over Noel to kiss me. “I love you, Zane.”
I cup her cheek as I kiss her back. “I love you, too, Bug.”
From across the room, Finn raises his glass again. “Merry Christmas, everyone.”
With my wife beside me and my son in my lap, I couldn’t agree more.
“Merry Christmas,” everyone echoes.
And it really is.
