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My chest starts to tighten. “What if what, Butterfly?”
“What if I didn’t get it replaced?” she whispers.
That tightness squeezes even more. “What would you do instead?”
Her chest rises and falls. “Have your baby.”
The binds around my heart snap, and the clenching muscle expands painfully.
Have my baby.
I reach for her face.
“You would do that?” My voice is choked.
She nods her head jerkily. “I want to.”
My throat burns, and that spot between my eyes aches with pressure. “Wh-why?”
She reaches up and holds my face the same way I’m holding hers. The same way she did downstairs to calm me.
“Because I never realized how much I wanted to make a family until I met you,” she whispers. “Because I love you, Hans. And because I’m pretty sure you love me too.” She changes my life.
Because I love you.
Heat streams from my eyes. And I try to tell her that I do. That I love her with all my being. But only a strangled sound comes out before I crush my mouth to hers.
This woman.
This strong as hell Butterfly.
She is the reason I fought for so long.
She is the reason I didn’t give up.
The reason I didn’t lie down and die next to the rest of my family.
She has given me life.
Cassandra pulls me closer, tugging at my shoulders and my sides. Her fingertips dig into my bare skin, promising me this is real. That she’s really real.
I roll us so she’s on her back.
She wraps her legs around my waist and presses her heels into my lower back.
“I love you, Hans. My big, perfect Grizzly Bear.”
I seal my lips to hers and swipe my tongue into her mouth, trying to taste the words as she says them.
Her hips rock up into mine, and I’m not close enough anymore.
I pull away and slide off the mattress so I can stand at the foot of the bed. Then I grip her sleep shorts.
Cassandra lifts her hips, helping me as I pull them off and toss them to the ground, leaving her bare.
My woman.
I grip her hips and drag her so her ass just hangs off the end of the bed.
