Page 105 of Sacked By Surprise
She lands in my lap, arms around my neck, kissing me with a fervour that suggests she’s trying to climb right inside me. I kiss her back, grinning against her mouth, my arms full of her, my chest splitting open with a joy I don’t know how to contain.
She pulls back. Her cheeks are wet, and her smile is so wide it looks painful. ‘I love you.’ She holds up her hand. ‘It’s so beautiful.’
‘Like you.’
‘You’re such a sap. But…don’t stop on my account.’ She grins and settles more comfortably in my lap. ‘Thank you for loving me, Bear.’
‘Thank you for loving me back, Marzipan.’
Her weight is warm and real and right where it belongs. All over me. Neither of us is watching the film. Again. Makes you wonder why we keep coming here.
‘Mrs Kerr.’ She rolls the name around her mouth. ‘Maybe I’ll keep MacKinney.’
‘Maybe I’ll take your name,’ I say. ‘Or we could hyphenate.’
‘MacKinney-Kerr? Sounds like a dodgy law firm.’
We’re tangled together in the dark, her head on my chest, my arms around her waist. We make sense together in a way I never expected to find, two different halves of the same whole clicking into place. And I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with my best friend.
The woman I love more than anything.
‘Come on, future wife.’ I rise and pull her with me. ‘Let’s go home and see how that ring looks on you when you’re naked.’
Ava giggles and threads her fingers through mine as we walk out less than a quarter into the film.
Doesn’t matter that we missed the happy ending.
We made our own.
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