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Epilogue
“Mother!”
Serenity paused her hand as she heard
Nicholas storm into her study.
“Would you please make Michael return my ship to me?”
“I don’t have his stupid ship,” Michael said, sticking his adorable eight-year-old head in the door. “Barney and Elizabeth have it down at the pond.”
“Well, why didn’t you tell me that?” Nicholas demanded.
“Because you didn’t ask me. You accused me of having it.”
“Boys!” Serenity snapped. “I love you, but I’m trying to get some work done.”
“Sorry,” they said in unison.
“You should have told me,” Nicholas grumbled, shoving Michael out the door.
“You should have asked.”
Smiling, Serenity shook her head. She loved all three of her children, but they were certainly a handful.
Just as she caught up with her thoughts, another knock sounded on her door.
Exasperated, she looked up again. “Yes?”
This time Morgan stuck his head in the door.
Even after ten years of marriage, he looked wonderful. “What doyouwant?” she asked with a teasing note in her voice.
He came into the room with his hands behind his back. “I have a surprise for you.”
“A surprise?”
“Aye.”
He placed a copy of a book on her desk. Looking down, she gasped. “My story!”
His smile grew wider. “When I was in New York last summer, I met a publisher.”
“You gave him my stories? Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Because I wanted to see the look of surprise on your face. And it’s priceless, truly, truly priceless.”
She laughed at the words that had become their own private joke between them over the years.
“And what can I say?” he asked with a shrug. “I like the idea of being immortalized.”
Laughing, she traced the raised gold letters on the book.The Adventures of the Sea Wolf.
“You even used my name,” she said with a lump in her throat as she saw “S. S. James” on it.
He laughed, then looked down at the desk where she was working. “What are you working on now?”
“Don’t ask.”
He rolled his eyes. “Not more of that social reform rubbish.”
“Rubbish? Why, sir, I’ll have you know that one day—”
He silenced her words with a kiss. “There’s only one place I want my woman,” he whispered against her lips. “And that’s the bedroom. Care to try for a fourth child, Mrs. Drake?”
She bit her lip. “It’s terribly early in the day, Captain.”
“You didn’t seem to mind yesterday.”
And before she could protest, he lifted her in his arms and carried her up the stairs.
