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Wrapping his arerly, he pulled her onto his lap Buried his face in her hair and breathed in a lungful of her scent Pushed hienerous, brave woman that his beautiful as
“Please, Clio Do not cry, cara I will not challenge you over our child I alk out, I will sign any paper you want n All I want is your happiness, even if it will kill me to be away from you”
Meeting his gaze, she rested her forehead against his “You really want me? Me and not just the mother of your child?”
Hating that she doubted hied her to him
“I came today because I couldn’t bear to be apart froht of never seeing you sain” His hand ht in his throat “That youthat you carry a part of me inside youit’s more than I wished for in my wildest dreams, bella Will you truly be ain?”
“You’re already everything I could have ever hoped for, Stefan You know me better than anyone else in the world And you take care of me, you enable me, youyou love me more than anyone else ever has, even as you shredyou—” tears pooled in her eyes and overflowed “—soer”
His heart thudded fast in his chest, the back of his eyes prickling armth “I love you so much, bellaI have one Promise you will never walk away froht for me”
Shaking her head, she covered his ed him up Pressed herthat he came undone
“All I want is my friend, my lover, my husband back, Stefan All I want is the man who made me the best I could be And if we e at other, but ill always find our way to each other again”
Reaching for her mouth, Stefan breathed in her scent, clutched her to hi but happiness and joy in the co days
Coh her hair, he kissed her forehead, a sirl with hair the color of fire”
Turning around, Clio tucked her face under his chin, her arhtly vined around his ood parents?”
The thread of anxiety in her tone, that she would show him her fears, made his chest fill up “We will be the best parents in the world, bella If we do randparents and a host of aunts and uncles to co of Rocco and Christian and Zayed and the wonderful women they had married
His heart see to the full Their friends would be over the moon for him, would find so much happiness in his