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what you mean. My wife and I have four kids and they never leave the house. Lot of garbage, that talk
about teenagers always being on the go. Al mine want to do is play video games and eat pizza."
"I know just what you mean."
"All the same," the deputy said wryly, "this really isn't..."
"The best place. I get the idea." Todd grinned again. "Okay. We'll go home."
"Rent them a movie," he suggested. "Works for my brood. You put on one of those new thril ers and
they won't even know if you're still in the house."
"That's the best idea yet. Thanks!"
He smiled. "My wife and I have been married twenty-six years," he said with a chuckle. "You wouldn't
believe some of the diversions we've come up with to keep them busy. Have a nice evening." He
touched the brim of his hat and went back to his car.
"You let him think we were married," she accused gently.
"Why not, when we will be by the end of the week," he said warmly. "I can't wait."
She slid her hand into his when he cranked the car and started to reverse it. "Neither can I."
They were married a few days later, with Tim and Meg as witnesses and Cherry as maid of honor. It
was a quiet ceremony in Jacobsville, with no one except the four of them. Afterward, they al went out
to eat at Jacobsvil e's best restaurant and then Todd and Jane flew down to Jamaica for a very brief
honeymoon before school started.
Despite their need for each other, they'd been very circumspect until the vows were spoken. But no
sooner were they instal ed in their room overlooking the bay in their luxurious Montego Bay hotel
suite when Todd picked her up and tossed her onto the king-size bed, following her down before she
had time to get her breath.
"Oh, but we really should...go and look...at the ocean," she teased as he brushed lazy, sensuous kisses
on her parted lips.
"Indeed we should." His lean hand smoothed down her
body, kindling sharp desires, awakening nerves. She gasped and shivered when he trespassed under
the thin elastic of her briefs. "Do you want to go now?" he whispered into her mouth as his hand
moved exploringly.
She moaned.
He laughed softly, moving his mouth to the soft curve of her breasts under the scoop-neck knit top.
"That's what I thought."
In no time at all, they were both nude, twisting against each other in a fever of deprived need. He
urgently drew her into the taut curve of his body, but even then he was tender, fitting her to him in a
silence punctuated with the soft gasps of pleasure that he drew from her mouth with each glorious
lunge of his body as it worked its way hungrily into hers.
He nibbled at her mouth while his hand, curved over her upper thigh, drew her insistently to meet the
rhythm of his powerful body.
He lifted his head to watch her reactions from time to time, and despite the glitter of his eyes and the
sharp drag of his breathing, he seemed total y in control. On the other hand, she was sobbing and
shivering, clinging desperately to him as the sensations, which were stil so new to her, flung her body
to and fro against his in waves of hot pleasure.
She arched into him violently, and his hand contracted. "Gently," he whispered. "We have to be careful
of your back."
"Gen...tly?" she groaned. "Oh, Todd...I'm...dying!" She pushed against him again, fol owing the trail of
the pleasure that had grasped her so viciously just seconds before.
"Here, then." He guided her, watching until he saw her response quicken. He smiled through his own
tension as he gave her the ecstasy she pleaded for. Her eyes widened and went black with shock as she
stiffened and then convulsed under his delighted gaze.
She felt the tears slide from her eyes as oblivion carried
her to heights she'd never dreamed of scaling. And then, just when she was returning to her body, she
saw him laugh and then groan as he pushed against her and shuddered with his own satisfaction.
He fel heavily against her, his heartbeat shaking him, and rol ed to his side with her clasped against
him. One long leg wrapped around her, drawing her even closer while he worked to breathe.
"If it keeps getting better," she whispered into his throat, "I think it may kill the."
He chuckled. "Both of us."
"You laughed," she accused softly.
He lifted his damp head and looked into her eyes, smiling. "Oh, yes." He traced her mouth. "With
shock and pleasure and the glory of loving and being loved while I made love. I've never felt so
complete before."
She smiled shyly. "Neither have I. Even though it was good the first time."
He kissed her softly. "We'l have years and years of this, and children, and chal enges to keep us fit.
And I'l love you until I die," he added fervently.
She pressed closer. "I'll love you just as long!" She closed her eyes. "Even longer."
He made a contented sound and bent to kiss her soft mouth. But very quickly the tenderness grew
stormy and hungry, and she rol ed into his arms again, as hungry as he.
Later, lying in Todd's arms as the morning sun silvered the bed, she thought that she'd never been
happier or more fulfilled in her whole life. Or more weary.
"Exhausted already?" he exclaimed when she shifted in his arms and groaned as her sore muscles
protested. "I'l have to feed you more oysters!"
"I'll feed you to the oysters if you don't let the sleep," she teased, nuzzling closer. "I know we agreed
that it would be nice to start our family right away, but I'l die of fatigue before we get to the first one
at this rate!"
He chuckled and kissed her forehead softly. "We'l sleep a bit longer, then. Happy?" he murmured
drowsily.
"Happier than I ever dreamed I could be."
"And your back...is it all right?"
"It's fine. Actually, I think this is therapeutic for it."
"All the more reason to exercise it twice a day."
She kissed his bare shoulder. "Later. I've had no sleep in two days. I kept thinking that your ex-wife
would find some way to sabotage the ceremony."
"That wasn't likely," he said with a weary grin. "Cherry had made several threats. I think she's going to
be a very formidable surgeon when she gets out of medical school. Anyone who can buffalo Marie
shouldn't have any trouble with hospital staff."
Jane smiled. "She and her mother do get along better now, at least."
"Oh, Marie learned her lesson the hard way. If she isn't nice to you, she'l lose her daughter. That's the
one thing that made her apologize to you, and it's kept her pleasant." He stretched lazily. "She even
offered to redecorate the ranch house for you free after she has the baby."
"I'll think about that."
"I had a feeling that's what you'd say. She means wel ."
"I know. I love you."
He smiled. "I love you."
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