Page 61 of Emergency Marriage to the Greek

EPILOGUE

SECONDCHANCESIN life were a gift, not a guarantee, and Alex and Tessa knew that deep in their bones. They’d been given a second chance and neither was willing to waste a moment of it.

Epíneio became not just a haven but also a home, a place for family to gather and celebrate, to be together, to make loud, happy memories, and also to remember. Stavros was spoken of so often that he felt very much a part of their lives, and when his namesake was born, eight months after Alex and Tessa recommitted to one another on Epíneio, it was with the certainty that little baby Stavros would always know about his uncle.

Orion and Elizabeth visited as often as his health would allow, and when he became too weak to travel to the island, Tessa, Alex and baby Stavros visited his home in Athens. He lived to see Stavros turn one, and Tessa’s belly grow round with their second baby, to witness her first art showing in years, to marvel at her talent, and to recognise her finally, fully, as the woman she’d always been destined to become.

When Orion died there was grief and sadness, and so much heartache, but there was also hope and joy, because his life had been long and lived with meaning, and just as they honoured Stavros, they honoured Orion, and kept his memories with them always.

A cottage was built for Elizabeth on Epíneio, and after the birth of their fifth child Alex and Tessa were ever grateful to have a doting grandmother on hand to help care for their children, and to allow them the freedom to occasionally travel as a couple. For as much as they loved their children—and they did, with all their hearts—their family of seven had begun as two, and the love of that pair was something special and beautiful that each wanted to celebrate, whenever they could.

There was no contract that could contain their love, no term or agreement that could bind them more than the agreement their hearts had made, secretly, quietly, a long, long time ago.

Alexandros Zacharidis was not a man to make mistakes, and as it turned out he hadn’t.

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