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It’s been alave herself to me in the hotel suite, and life couldn’t be better

Terrence is facing several counts of murder – my woes That piece of shit is going away for a long ti into an aparte courses

But best of all,the apart tenor Her songs are beautiful and heartfelt and make me want to blurt I love you every time I hear one

The truth is I’ve been afraid to blurt it out, afraid

It’s a feeling I’s have been so perfect with us, so storybook bright I orried about risking it

But I can’t wait any longer I have to make her mine, even more than she already is I can’t just draw our future in snohere it ht melt and wash away in the sun

I need to carve it in stone

Forever

“Nick?” sheher hand on my arm softly

“Sorry,” I tell her “Yeah, we’re going to the ot a surprise for you”

She looks out of the , up at the sky Countless stars glitter down on us, a whole world of thehtly

Your hair reht, shining all the time

I chuckled and rolled over, kissing her and giving in to the desire which is always howling at the edges ofme to take her, every second of every day I know that’s never going to go away

But tonight is about being civilized

At least for a little bit

“Won’t the mall be closed?” she asks

“Yeah, it is I made sure it was”

She glances atvery suspicious, Santa”

I smile over at her, the most honest, widest, realest smile I’ve ever felt It’s like there’s a whole world of love stowed up inside of me, ready to release any time my woman so much as looks at me

“Stop being such a nosy little elf,” I tease “Be patient”

“Okay, I’ll try”