Heart Fortune (Celta) (40 page)

“Nah,” she said. “I was your sure thing.”

Shaking his head, he said, “But I didn’t believe that. I was always afraid to believe that.”

She felt incredibly good in his arms, fit there like no other. “I didn’t believe in love or HeartMates . . . in a healthy love.”

She didn’t loosen her grasp, and he reveled in the closeness, knowing she’d always be there with him, for him.

Smiling up at him, she said, “But you believe now.”

“Yes.” He stroked her hair. “I can
feel
it now. But I still say you were my greatest risk and I’ve been phenomenally lucky.”

“We’ve been phenomenally lucky.”

He stared into her brown eyes. “And we’ll be lucky for the rest of our lives.”

“Yes.”

Yes,
said Lepid and Zem together.

“We’ll see through the excavation—a lifetime of work. And we’ll be founders of a new town.” She patted his chest. “In twenty years, you’ll be very respectable.”

“I hope not.”

She turned away from the view and took his hand. “We have the time and the resources to craft our future and a Family.”

“Very true, and will spend all our lives together and loving each other.”

“A future of discovery.”

They turned away from the view and that past and moved on to the future together, proving their love in bed.