Epilogue
‘WHAT DO YOU THINK ?’ Lucie asked, closely watching her husband and business partner’s reaction. Of all the interior designs she’d created since setting up her own business four years ago, this was the one she was most proud of, the one that made her heart sing nearly as loudly as the man holding her hand so possessively did.
‘It is incredible,’ he said, awe in his voice as well as his eyes before he cupped her chin and kissed her with the same passion he’d been kissing her for the past six years. ‘Your designs just get better and better. Our child will love it,’ he murmured when they came up for air, and as he said that, their baby tucked safely in her belly kicked its agreement, hard enough for Thanasis to feel it in his abdomen pressed against hers.
He smiled and then laughed. ‘It never feels less than miraculous, does it?’
She beamed, knowing exactly what he meant. The conception of their third child had the same magical feeling to it as her first two pregnancies. ‘Never.’
Lucie often felt their entire marriage was built on magic, and thought it was the same magic that had stopped her memories fully returning. She was happy for them to stay lost for ever, but if they ever did return then it didn’t matter. She had six years and counting of being loved and cherished to counter it. Six years and counting of utter bliss.
He kissed her again. ‘Shall we?’
‘Ready when you are.’
‘Then let’s go.’
They left their unborn child’s nursery and quietly checked on their sleeping daughter, Ellie, and their not-quite-sleeping-yet son, Lea, and then, satisfied all was well, left them under the supervision of the nanny and slipped out of the villa.
The golf buggy had been parked out front for them, a huge backpack filled with goodies placed on the back seat.
And then they were off, heading to the mountain to watch the sun set, the route to the summit having long been made safe for a heavily pregnant woman to manage. It was a private journey they never tired of making and a scene they never tired of witnessing, and one they would take together for the rest of their lives.