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“Justnoskydiving.” Alice pointed a painted finger at her. “I’m too valuable to fling myself out of a plane. My producer would bring me back to life and kill me again if I died doing a foolish thing like skydiving.”
“No skydiving. I promise. I have no interest in that either.”
“Phew,” I blew out. “I really don’t ever want to do that.”
“Pansies,” Marge snorted. “I’d do it.”
Alice arched an eyebrow. “Then you have yourself a great time. We’ll be the little ants below waving at you as you plunge to your death.”
Marge opened her arms like an airplane, grinning as she flew off behind the man carrying her bags. “I’ll see you pansies at dinner!”
We all chuckled as we watched her go, then I followed my valet to my room, oohing and aahing over the luxurious décor while I got settled in. Though my eyelids were already heavy and needed sleep, I forbade myself from napping so I wouldn’t sleep through dinner.
Instead of taking a nap, I pulled out my phone and dialed Axel. We’d had no phone service the few days we were out at sea, so I had so much to tell him about our shark diving adventure. But when the phone went to voicemail, I glanced at the clock, doing a quick calculation and realizing he’d be out feeding the herd right now.
Darn it.
I missed him.
But just hearing his voice on the voicemail made my little heart happy, so I left him a message to call me when he got in.
It still seemed surreal I had a husband again. Before we’d gone on our adventure last year and I’d realized my life wasn’t just biding time until I got called home to Heaven, I’d never have believed the new life I was living was possible. With Harold dead and my children grown and gone, I’d so desperately wanted someone to care for again, and now I had not just Axel to dote on, but his sister, his nephews, all the ranch hands, and all the tourists who came during the summer to experience the ranch life.
It was bliss for someone like me who needed to be needed.
And Axel made me feel needed. Always.
Though he was supportive of my yearly adventure plans with the girls, it made me as happy as a kid at the confectionery that he’d been so devastated in the days up to my departure. How much he’d be missing me helped me realize I was not just someone to raise kids with and have a family. I was loved.Reallyloved. The kind of passionate love I’d always thought was just in the fairytales.
But every day, I felt like a Disney princess with my very own Prince Charming to call my own ... even if my Prince Charming wore cowboy hats instead of crowns.
I finished my message with “I love you. I’ll talk to you soon,” then hung up.
With a sigh, I laid back on the pillow-soft bed and dreamed about what adventures tomorrow would hold.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
