Same feelings

He shook his head. "Not at all. Marie's hot." He grinned. "Go Dad, I say." "Well, that's a relief. I was a little worried there for a moment. You seemed... tense during dinner."

He pulled me down onto the garden bench and wrapped me in his arms, burying his head at my neck. "Do I seem tense now?" he muttered against my hair.

"Not as much." I answered with a rub of my fingers at the base of his neck. "but your muscles here are very tight. When are we going to tell them? 1 thought we would have done it already."

"We'll make the announcement when we go back inside. I need a moment alone with you first."

"I'll take a moment alone with you." I smiled into his handsome face looking so intently at me, the illumination from the garden lights reflecting in his blue eyes like tiny sparks. He leaned down to kiss me and swallowed me up with his expert technique. My stomach did a little flip at the sight of him looming, still just as affected by him now as I had been from the first moment we locke