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“I should give you a different kind of pearl necklace tonight,” he murmurs, chuckling as he brushes his thumb over my collarbone. “But I can’t keep myself from coming inside of you. At least not until you’re pregnant,” he adds, leaning in to kiss me with a fresh heat in his eyes. “God, just the thought of knocking you up gets me hard—”
“Well—” I look up at him, a secret smile playing on my lips. “If youreallyhad plans of coming somewhere other than inside of me tonight…I don’t think adding more can do anything you haven’t already accomplished.”
Theo blinks at me. “Marika—”
I lean up suddenly, my hands pressed to his shirt as I kiss him, overwhelmed with sudden emotion. “Yes,” I whisper against his mouth. “When we fly to Dublin tomorrow, it will be three of us. I wanted to tell you tonight, before we left. I was going to say something at dinner—but I thought it would be better, just us two.”
Theo is staring down at me as if he’s never seen me before. “You’re sure?” he asks, his voice suddenly raspy. “I’m—you’re pregnant?”
“I’m very sure.” I press my hand to his cheek, and I think I’ve never seen him so happy, not even when I came back to Dublin, though it’s close. “We’re going to have a baby, Theo.”
“Marika.” He whispers my name, almost reverently, and then I’m in his arms, his lips hard on mine as he kisses me until I’m breathless, his forehead pressed to mine. “You’ve made me the happiest man in the world twice now,” he murmurs. “I’m luckier than I could ever deserve.”
“And with any luck, I’ll make you happy a few more times, too.” I smile against his lips. “After all, we have that manor house to fill up with the family you promised me.”
I don’t know if I’ve ever felt such unfettered joy as when Theo kisses me again, and we stand there in each other’s arms, savoring the moment. It makes me glad that I chose now, just the two of us, to tell him the secret I’ve been holding onto all day.
For a while, we both thought we’d lost everything. But now we have everything we could have ever wanted—and more than we could have ever dreamed.
“I’m yours forever,” I whisper against his lips, and like every time I’ve said it before, these are vows I mean. Vows that I plan to keep.
“And I’m yours.” His mouth finds mine again, his arms around me, and I know, all over again, that I made the right choice.
The love we found was unexpected—but it’s a love that will last. A love that we both chose, and that we come back to, again and again.
Forever.
