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Epilogue
Alicia
Cage came back.
It took years of waiting and growing and crying, but he came back, and I’ve never been happier. There are some days when I wake up and I can’t quite believe the life I’m living. Part of me never really thought he’d return to the mountains or that he’d come back.
I definitely never dreamed that he’d be a world-famous writer living his best life, saving money, and running away from the past.
That’s the problem with not communicating, though: you can’t really know anything if you aren’t willing to talk about things.
It’s been almost a year since he came back.
A year and our life together has been absolutely incredible. Things aren’t the way I thought they would be. They’re so much better. When he walked back into my life, I was expecting the worst, but oh, things are just even better than I ever hoped.
Now things are different.
Fresher.
More beautiful.
The world is a more wonderful place than I could have possibly imagined.
Every day seems brighter than the last.
Today, Cage and I are at the park with Orlando. The three of us are spending an entire afternoon just flying kites, running around, and playing tag. Orlando can’t stop laughing, and even Cage is having fun. Together, the three of us really do seem to fit together to make the perfect little family.
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that our start in life was so rough. Our family’s beginning was unbearable: almost impossible. Cage and I both made so many mistakes, and I know that we’re both going to make many more.
He did me wrong by leaving without so much as a fare-thee-well, but I could have tried to find him, and I didn’t. It wasn’t exactly on my to-do list to hunt him down and let him know he had a kid. We both screwed up.
But now, things are different, and our lives are starting to move forward in a way that makes me think maybe Betty was right all of those times she talked about mates. She seemed to really believe in the idea of true mates, and even though she was divorced from her husband, she never really stopped believing in the idea of true love.
Me and Cage?
That’s what we have.
Our lives are going to be hard, I’m sure. We’ll have chaos and turmoil and frustration. We’ll fight and bicker and then we’ll make up and move forward together, as a team, because that’s what true love does.
True love fights forever, but the best thing about love is that it always, always wins.
THE END
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Sophie Stern loves reading, dancing, and video games she can lose herself in. She writes contemporary, paranormal, and science fiction romance stories with sassy heroines and wonderful heroes. You can find out more when you visit her website at www.sexysophiestern.com or join her mailing list HERE.
The Bear’s Virgin Darling
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