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I started laughing. “Is that your way of explaining away your emotions?”
“Maybe,” she muttered.
“Edie?”
“Yeah?”
“I already knew that, baby,” I told her. “In fact, there isn’t anything that I don’t know about you.”
Epilogue
The ending we all deserve.
Edie – (Five Years Later)~
If I didn’t have quick reflexes, I would have tripped and faceplanted on the floor. Boxes were still everywhere, but it wasn’t as bad as when we’d first moved in.
“Lars, you here?”
His sexy face peeked out from around one of the partition walls. “Here.”
All these years later, Lars was still as sexy as he’d ever been. Those hazel eyes still saw right through me, and that face of his was the one I saw in my fantasies, though I didn’t need to fantasize much anymore. With college done and over with, distance was no longer a part of our relationship.
While Lars had gotten into quite a few colleges, he had ended up choosing UC Berkeley. I’d gotten into John Hopkins, and after graduating with high honors, my residency was next. Lars hadn’t thought twice about packing up and moving to Maryland as soon as we’d gotten our degrees.
That wasn’t the only thing different in our lives, either. Talon and Kenzlee had gotten married during their sophomore year at Stanford, and they had ended up moving back to Lakeside after graduation. Kenzlee was also pregnant with their first child, and I’d never seen my brother so excited.
As for Hunter and Alexandria, they’d gotten pregnant during their freshman year at UCLA, and though it’d taken a lot of hard work and compromise, they’d both managed to get their degrees, and they’d been my inspiration for the times when missing Lars had gotten to be too much. If Hunter and Alex could work, go to school, raise two little babies, and still make their relationship work, then I could miss Lars and it be okay.
Sidestepping the many boxes in the living room, I said, “We’re really going to have to finish unpacking this weekend.”
Lars waited until I walked up to him to kiss the top of my head. “I know,” he replied. “Luckily, a couple of those boxes are presents for the kids.”
I looked up at my husband. “You are spoiling those kids so badly.”
Porter and Sela Finley were four and two, and Lars was the best uncle ever. We’d also gotten married two years ago, though kids were going to have to wait for us. I had a rough and long residency ahead of me, and though I had no doubt that Lars would support me through whatever, he had his own career to carve out for himself. In fact, adoption was something that we had talked about before, though we still weren’t ruling anything out.
“No need to worry,” he quipped. “I plan on spoiling Talon’s baby, too.”
“And when they pay us back by spoiling our children?”
“By then, we’ll be older and wiser enough to handle it like professionals.”
I laughed as I pulled out of his arms. “I’m not sure anyone’s capable of handling parenthood like a professional. Kids are crazy.”
“You’re not lying,” he said right before leaning down to place a soft kiss on my lips. “Hey, baby. I missed you this morning.”
I arched a brow. “How much?”
Lars grinned at me wolfishly. “Oh, I’m more than willing to show you how much.”
“Oh!”
His head reared back. “What?”
“I forgot to tell you, Mom called me earlier,” I announced. “I’d just finished up at the administration offices when she called.”
“Is everything okay?”
