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I head over to the nursery and find Elle cradling James, breastfeeding him. She smiles as I enter the room and I kiss them both on the tops of their heads. This is my family. This is my future. It might seem mundane to some, getting up and doing the same things every day with the same people, but I don’t care about that. These things I get to do every day are so damn special. I’ll never take any of this for granted.
Because I have a life that others can only dream of.
Extended Epilogue
Ten years later…
Elle
“Happy Anniversary, baby.”
I smile as I step out onto the balcony of our hotel in Paris. Will surprised me by flying us out for the week to celebrate ten years of us being together. We don’t celebrate on our wedding anniversary, but rather the anniversary of the day we met. It’s more romantic, we both agree. And now, as I glide over to my husband and take a glass of champagne from his hand, I revel in the fact that we’ve made it this far. So many couples crash and burn in no time at all. My parents certainly did in their marriage. So many couples don’t go the distance.
But we’re not like them. I knew from the moment I met Will that we’d build something to last. Four kids, ten years and one marriage later, we’re stronger than we’ve ever been. Our relationship only becoming even more rock solid with each passing moment.
I look deep into his eyes and revel in the knowledge that we chose this to be our forever. We might not have known the exact details. We might not have been able to predict that we’d be standing here after ten years, with a view of the Eiffel tower and our hearts full of love, but we knew we’d be somewhere, and we knew we’d be there together. The rest isn’t important.
Because it’s not the view of the Eiffel Tower that makes this moment special. It’s the way my husband looks at me. It’s the way he drinks me in like I’m a fine wine. He thinks I’m beautiful and always has, even after ten years of change, of having children, and hard work. I appreciate so much how he’s stuck by me.
I know I’ve not made things easy on us. I’ve worked myself to the bone. I’ve devoted all my time to work and our children, leaving less time for him. But he understands. He knows that we have so many years ahead of us. Time for everything we want to do together. And even so, we still spend as many hours as we can in one another’s arms, loving one another unconditionally, enjoying one another for what we are. Neither of us has tried to change the other. We’re happy exactly as we are. I think it’s rare not to want to change even the small things about your partners, but to me, Will is perfect exactly the way he is, even his tiny flaws are things I love.
I reach out to stroke his cheek. “Sometimes it doesn’t feel real that you’re mine.”
His icy eyes soften. “I feel the same. I look at you and wonder how I got so lucky. I question how I survived all those years without you because now, I don’t know what I’d do without you,” he growls, grabbing my hip with his free hand and pulling me closer to him.
“Well, I’m not going anywhere,” I murmur. When we kiss, he tastes of champagne. But one kiss is never enough, and we’re soon discarding our glasses to kiss properly. Because the thing about us is that we can’t resist one another. It doesn’t matter where we are or when. We always want one another.
His hands glide over my body, from my breasts to my ass. It’s like we’re horny teenagers, but we’re far from that now. We’re grown adults with a life, a house, a family. But no matter how old we grow, we still want each other like this. Like it’s the first time. Like it’s the first day we met because every day is a new day. None of the fire between us has gone out only grown with time. It makes this feel so special. It reminds me that we’re some of the lucky ones.
“I’ve always wanted to kiss you on a balcony in Paris,” I tease between kisses. I can feel him bunching up my dress, his other hand sliding up between my legs.
“I’ve always wanted to fuck you on a balcony in Paris,” he growls, his lips on my neck now. I sigh as he continues to work my neck, in heaven. The warm night, the backdrop of the Eiffel tower, the beautiful balcony, it’s all so perfect. But it would be just as perfect anywhere. That’s how good it is when we’re together. We don’t need all of this to keep the magic alive, nice as it is.
