“It is.”
“Okay,” Poppy said, coming back to uncork a bottle of wine. “I’ve been very excited for this day. Our first vintage and everyone is weaned, right? We girls finally get to split a bottle of wine?”
Pia wrinkled her nose and looked at Angelo. They had suspected they wouldn’t be able to keep it under wraps a full three months.
“Really?” Poppy asked with shock, catching their look while bright tears came into her eyes.
“We didn’t mean to,” Pia admitted sheepishly. “It just happened.”
“Oh, we know how it ‘just happens,’” Sorcha teased.
“Too true,” Poppy said, coming to hug both of them. “That’s wonderful news. Congratulations.”
* * *
Much later, when Angelo was lying replete next to his wife, her damp body relaxed against his, he said, “Do you remember our honeymoon?”
“I think we were just there,” she said on a luxurious sigh and a slither of her naked skin against his own. She settled her head more comfortably on his shoulder.
He smiled into the dark. “That’s what I meant. I remember thinking I had to memorize it because I might never be that happy again, but I am. Often.”
“A wise person once told me that happiness is fleeting, not a state of being.”
“He might not have been as smart as
the woman he was talking to.”
She brought her thigh up to rest across his stomach. Her face turned into his skin as she kissed above his heart. “For the record, after much dedicated research, I have concluded that happiness is a goal worth pursuing.”
“Hypothesis proven?”
“Beyond a shadow of a doubt.”
* * *
If you enjoyed Bound by Their Nine-Month Scandal by Dani Collins you’re sure to enjoy the other Montero siblings’ stories!
Discover the hidden heirs of Cesar in
The Consequence He Must Claim
and Rico in
The Maid’s Spanish Secret.
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