She giggled. “Now?”
He peered up at her. “No time like the present, mydear.”
Emma held onto him as he carried her up to the secondfloor.
“After all, how else do you think we are going to make all those adorable babies?” He pressed her back against the wall at the top of the stairs and took that moment to gently kiss herlips.
All thought left her mind as she reveled in the feeling of his body against hers. When he pulled back, he set her feet on the ground. With his hands now free, he pressed them on either side of her and peered into hergaze.
“I meant it when I said, I want you to be the mother of mykids.”
Emma’s heart swelled as she thought of what the sentence meant. It was as if all the things she’d ever wanted converged at the sametime.
Standing on her toes, she tilted her face up and kissed him. “I love you, Austin Maverick.” And that was thetruth.
He reached up and grazed her cheek with his thumb. “I love you, EmmaMaverick.”
She shifted her lips to kiss his palm. “Good,” she whispered. Then she wrapped her arms around his neck and got lost in his kiss. She was happy. She was home. He was all she’d everwanted.
