AllFreeNovel
Share Us
She was quiet for a while.
“Please, tell me all the thoughts you have in there.”
“The thoughts, well, I’m worried that I’m not adding anything to you. So, I need to be good for something,” Erin eventually said.
“What are you talkingabout?”
“I bring nothing to the ‘us.’ You have a house. You don’t need my money, my job, or my high school diploma. If I can’t even keep the house clean, what good am I?”
Noah rolled over to cup her face in his hands. “Has anyone ever said that to you?”
“Not exactly. But this was a trial run to show I’m worth more than just what I do in the bedroom.”
“Oh. Because there I was minding my own business reading the bible on my porch when you jumped out of the bushes and seduced me?”
“Sort of.”
“Or maybe I spent weeks salivating over you before following you to your house and pouncing on you the first chance I got?” He kissed her mouth. “Or I used my evil, possessive, dark Jedi powers to own you tonight?”
“You’re missing the point.”
“That no matter how clean you make the house, people will judge us one way or another?”
“It doesn’t seem fair.”
“‘Who said life is fair? Where is that written? Life isn’t always fair.’” Noah quoted at her.
“See, you are the perfect man. Hot, Fire-Chief-esque, evil Jedi, and memorized the Princess Bride. Ahh!” Erin flopped down on the mattress.
“Far from it. I’m a slob, and despite my geek love, I hated Rings of Power and thought the Red Wedding was overrated.” Noah said, “I’m also a total driven jerk when it comes to the fire department, and I’m participating in this farce of a wedding primarily because it benefits the department, despite how unhappy it makes the love of my life.”
“Spock: the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few,’” Erin hit back with Noah’s favorite Star Trek character’s famous line.
“Or debatably Charles Dickens.”
“Who? Christmas Carol guy?”
“Spock gives Kirk Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities for his birthday in the Wrath of Khan, and they quote it a few times. ‘The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few’ could be about the books Anti-Hero Carton trading places with the married hero Darnay to take his place at Madame La Guillotine to spare Darany’s wife and family the pain.”
“Wow, dark.”
“Before Carton is executed, he says, ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done.’”
“Which Kirk says at Spock’s funeral. Clearly, I should have gone to college and gotten smarter.” Erin couldn’t control her pout. This was proving exactly what she feared.
“It’s three hundred and fifty tedious pages. You aren’t missing anything. We can watch the 1980 movie with Chris Sarandon if you want and skip the read.”
“Prince Humperdinck?”
“Yes, and Peter Cushing. Gotta warn you, it’s Hallmark movie quality.”
“I’ll take a movie starring Prince Humperdinck and Grand Moff Tarkin any day. Even if I’m a vapid, useless girl.”
“You are no such thing. Don’t think that for a single second. Here’s the best line from A Tale of Two Cities.” Noah lifted her chin to make her eyes meet his blue ones. “‘I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.’”
Erin totally kissed him and climbed on top of him. “Okay, I’m so in. I’ll clean, run in burning buildings, pose in every picture, whatever it takes to keep you.”
“You already have me. We do the public stuff fine. But believe me, our love, us, is so personal. It is no one else’s business. Not your team’s, not the fire department’s, not the city’s. It’s ours, and only ours.”
