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“I’m sorry,” she said. “I…I’m just sorry that you had to do that for me.”
I threw my arm around her shoulders and dropped a kiss to her hair.
“I’m not sorry that I did it,” I told her. “I’m just sorry that he made me do it.”
She pressed her forehead to my bicep and sighed.
“I still don’t like that I put you into that situation. Whether you feel it or not, it was my fault,” she pushed.
I snorted. “You’re saying that you wouldn’t want our own kids to tell us that something was happening like that?”
She stayed stubbornly silent.
“I hope that when we have kids, they never experience anything bad,” I said softly. “But if they do, they’re comfortable telling us things like you were with your father.”
She grumbled under her breath, making me smile.
“What was that?” I teased.
I was drunk…but not so overly drunk that I couldn’t feel her softness pressing against me.
It was turning me on.
“I said that you’re right,” she grumbled. “And…just sayin’…but we’re leaving tomorrow. I can’t do this another night.”
I frowned. “Do what?”
“The no touching thing.” She sighed. “I want you.”
A smile broke out over my face.
“We’ll get plenty of that when we get home,” I told her. “For now, let’s just not put your dad into the situation where he has to use his gun. He so obviously proved this morning that he wasn’t kidding.”
I closed my eyes as I let her laughter, her happiness, filter through me.
And realized that this was my life now.
Saylor and I would be married.
We’d have kids.
And we’d be happy until the rest of our days.
“Love you, baby.” I squeezed her.
“Love you, too, whiskey breath.”
I snorted with laughter. Then tickled her until she fell into the pond.
She came up gasping.
“You…” She pulled me in with her.
I let her, of course.
But in the end, it was worth it.
Even if we did smell like swamp rats afterward.
