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Glancing through the window, I saw Eva slip her arm around Esther’s shoulder, calming her with her casual affection and kissing the side of her head. A godsend. They’d all been a godsend.
‘I’m so glad you went back for her,’ Gladys said, playing peekaboo behind her napkin, to Jane’s delight.
‘Me too. Best decision I ever made.’
Jane’s giggles sounded out as multiple faces turned toward us with smiles.
‘I don’t miss sitting in that house rotting away in the rain one bit.’
‘Me either,’ I said, thinking back to the families I always envied out of the window, and now I had one of my very own. People who cared if I wasn’t there, and who wanted me to be around. People who smiled and welcomed me with open arms. My girls, with their dark hair and green eyes, and bringing peace to my soul. Parenthood had hit us like a tonne of bricks, as it did most people, but together we’d found our way to happiness. Having three people who adored our baby helped too.
‘Maeve!’ Came a scream to my left as Esther flew out of the door and practically ripped her sister off of her feet. Tears sprung from her eyes as they gripped onto one another, the past giving way to a happier future. ‘I’ve missed you so much.’
‘Where’s that husband of yours?’ I asked, picking up Jane and walking over to meet them.
‘Urgh, delayed by a work thing, so he’ll be here tomorrow, but I absolutely wasn’t missing my niece’s birthday for work nonsense.’ Maeve handed her case to Esther and reached out for Jane. I hesitated, not knowing if she’d be weird with the practical stranger, but the video calls had clearly done their thing and Jane happily went to her aunt, pulling at her hair and giggling.
‘We could have picked you up,’ I said as we made our way inside.
‘I’m perfectly able to get a cab,’ Maeve said, nudging me with an elbow.
‘It’s not that I don’t think you’re able--‘ I started, before the two women burst into laughter.
‘I’m just messing with you. Guys, this place is bloody adorable.’ Maeve’s eyes widened as we went inside. ‘No wonder you abandoned me for Spain.’
Later, when we’d eaten the cake and Jane’s had torn all her presents open and played with them, and the birthday girl had crashed out in the cradle upstairs, we sat beneath a star filled sky enjoying a glass of wine. Jock and Eva had begged to keep Jane for the night, and we’d put up little fight. Maeve and Gladys were bedded in their rooms upstairs, and Eva and Jock had turned in for the night.
‘I didn’t think I could ever be so happy,’ Esther said, her legs in my lap on the bench we sat on.
‘Let’s get you home and I’ll show you just how happy I can make you,’ I said into her ear, grazing my teeth over her throat.
‘Mmmm, baby free nights shouldn’t be wasted,’ she said, tipping her head to give me better access to her neck.
‘I love you so much it hurts sometimes.’ It did too, a deep ache that left me forever needing more of her.
‘I can kiss it better,’ she whispered, running her hand up the side of my face. ‘Where does it hurt?’
‘Here?’ she asked, running a thumb over my lips.
‘Yes.’ She tasted like wine as she kissed me, her lips opening to kiss me harder as I groaned into her mouth.
‘Here?’ Her fingers grazed my collarbone as she leant down to nip at me before kissing the tender spot as I nodded.
‘Or maybe here?’ she said, dragging her fingers over my crotch and eliciting a growl. Even after almost two years, I could never get enough of her.
Her laughter rang out as I threw her over my shoulder and stalked away from the taverna, heading for our cottage.
‘Be a good girl and stop wriggling,’ I said, slapping her ass as she writhed. She wriggled all the more.
‘Oh, the brat’s come to play tonight, has she? Good, I’m just in the mood to tan your ass before I fuck it.’
Her whimpers had me hard before I could take another few steps.
‘Will you let me ride your face first?’ she said, in a voice dripping with innocence.
‘Always, baby. Always.’
