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  “I know, me neither,” I say. “But I can’t take half your house. I just can’t.”

  “Marry me then,” he says. “Then it will be all right.”

  “Just for your house?”

  “No because I love you and you love me. What could be more right than that?”

  And I have to agree how right we are together. I can’t imagine this ever changing, wherever we are, wherever his job takes him.

  But he’s thought about that too. “When I started the company with Jack, we thought we needed the risk, the excitement of being in danger, the way we were overseas, but I’m not so sure now. I want to be with you, not guarding some stupid politician, or even a woman like Tessa. I want to be with you in bed every night, not away, following whoever I’m looking after. I’ll talk to Jack when I get back and see what we can do.”

  And he does. Jack has been having second thoughts, too. They agree to look at other options, different types of security operations. And that makes me happy. Grant wants to be with me. And I’m not going to be forever biting my nails about the risks he’s taking.

  *

  Tessa’s divorce from Jeremy goes through. They agree to be friends, and she wishes him well. He’s generous with the settlement, happy now that he’s living with a guy he cares for, and he leaves everything in Scotland to his ex-wife, along with enough money that she never has to worry.

  Grant and I are regular visitors to her house. Tessa has had it lovingly remodeled using my designs, including all the colors and themes of places that made her happy.

  And she looks well these days, calmer and happier than when I first met her.

  Grant and I hold our wedding at her house where we first met and fell in love. I ask Tessa to be my bridesmaid along with Anna and Alison, my friends from back home and London.

  On the evening before the wedding, I’m drinking prosecco in my room with all three of them.

  “It was love at first sight with you, wasn’t it?” Alison, the level-headed one, says. “I’m not sure I believe in that.”

  “Neither did I,” I say, laughing. Typical Alison. “It was lust at first sight that turned into something bigger.”

  “I like bigger,” Anna says. “Big muscles. Big everything.” She raises her eyebrows in query.

  I laugh. “I’m not saying, but I’m quite happy, thank you.”

  “Does he have a friend for me?” she asks.

  “You’ll have to find out. He invited a few people from his service days, and I haven’t even met all of them.”

  At the wedding, Jack seems taken with Anna, and I wink at her and whisper in her ear, “Your own hot bodyguard?”

  She laughs, “Maybe. For tonight, anyway. I can’t promise anything more. But when I see you and Grant together…” She seems wistful. I’d love to see Anna in love, and if she was living closer that would be great too. But I can’t see her settling down yet.

  Alison has started going out with the accountant from her office and has invited him as her plus one. Mom has brought along her fourth husband. And Dad is just Dad. Tessa introduces us all to her new man, Gordon, a friend of a friend she met at one of her weekend parties.

  “Everyone seems happy now,” I say to Grant as we have our first dance. “I want everyone to be happy.”

  “I’m happy,” he says. “Happy you’re my wife. Happy to be your husband.” And he spins me around until I’m giddy and laughing.

  *

  I never hear what happened to the thieves who broke into Tessa’s house. Maybe they escaped the justice system on a technicality or something. In any case, I expected to be called as a witness, but a year goes past and nothing. I can’t say I’m sorry not to see them again. The thought of the knife at my throat brings me out in a cold sweat sometimes, but even in my nightmares, Grant is there rescuing me.

  Even though I have no sympathy for those guys, doing what they do, a tiny part of me will always be grateful that they had the effect on Grant they did, and that their crime meant he and I ended up with our own special happy ever after.

  In time, Gordon becomes a regular visitor to Tessa’s house, and we receive a save the date card for their wedding in the mail, but when Tessa phones to asks me to be a bridesmaid for her, I have to refuse.

  “I’ll be very pregnant by then,” I tell her. “I just found out. But that month means I might end up missing the wedding.”

  Tessa is over the moon for me and Grant. And she changes the date so I can be a bridesmaid for her. I love her dearly.

  Grant is delighted about the baby. He’s happy he’ll be there for us, day in day out. He stopped bodyguarding after the contract with Tessa came to an end, and he and Jack are well on their way to having one of the most rapidly growing security companies in the south of England. They employ people to fit alarm and surveillance systems. They don’t tackle crooks with their bare hands anymore.

  “Don’t you miss the excitement of being a bodyguard?” I ask Grant one day. “At least the potential of it.”

  “I get all the excitement I need here with you,” he says, kissing my nose. He’s not being completely truthful, of course. He has hang gliding and kick boxing and all kinds of stuff he likes to have a go at now. But how can I stop him doing those things, even if I sometimes worry? It would be changing who he is, who I love. I have to trust that he’ll take enough care of himself not to do anything crazy.

  I kiss him back tenderly on the lips, and that chaste exchange of kisses turns into a full-on toe-curling make-out session, as it so often does with him, a session where he shows me how much he loves me with his mouth, his hands, his whole body, and I get so into it, I could forget my own name, but never his.

  “See,” he says, as we lie there afterwards, and he strokes my back. “That never happened bodyguarding. Not until I met you. The only danger now is that I wear you out.”

  “I’m not tired.” I grin at him. “I’ll never tire of you.”

  Just then the baby kicks for the first time, and we both feel it and laugh. I’ve had the fluttering butterfly type movements before, but not a good solid kick.

  “I think he’s protesting in there,” Grant says. “He wants to get some sleep even if you don’t.”

  “I’m sure he won’t mind,” I say. “You can explain later when he’s old enough that some things are more important than that.” And I kiss my husband in such a way he forgets any thought of sleep.

  “I love you, Mrs. Maddox,” he says as he enters me.

  “I love you, too,” I respond, feeling the strength of him surrounding me, inside me, everywhere. Could there ever be anything better than this?

  “I’ll always be your bodyguard,” he says.

  “Yes, and I’m forever yours, too,” I tell him. And then he picks up the pace, and talking stops for a while, because with my hot bodyguard, sometimes I only just remember to breathe.

  *************

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