Summer Fever

you,” he said at last.
    It was the first time I’d heard those words and knew it wasn’t just a man asking me to parrot the words back to him. That wasn’t him. He just wanted me to know how he felt.
    “I love you too,” I said.
    I was surprised at how good it felt.
    Tiny aftershocks of pleasure shook my body and I couldn’t stop moving against him. He felt so right in my arms.
    “How’re we going to–”
    He stopped me with a kiss. “We’ll work it out.” AND we did. I quit my job in the city and moved upstate to be with him.
    He didn’t make me; he was perfectly willing to relocate.
    But I didn’t need the frenzy of the city to fill my empty nights any more. Sure, I missed it sometimes, but it’s only a train ride away if we wanted to catch a show or go to a museum.
    Turned out I got a job at the university in the nearest town over, where they had a research program in TB. I also had some money in the bank from the royalties.
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    Russ made detective. He’d actually found out earlier the same day he was shot. He was now an investigator, so we were kind of in the same business.
    We didn’t live with his brother. Russ had bought some land before he ever met me because he’d been thinking of building a house.
    My kid sister is an architect, rejoicing in the ridiculous name of Frangelico Lillet Andrews. I call her Frangie. She was thrilled when I asked her if she’d design a house for us. Part of her fee was that we build it exactly as she designed it, and let her take photos and publish them, so she could get name recognition. With that name, who could forget her!
    It made me a little nervous, but Fran actually listened to what we wanted and produced plans for a beautiful house.
    Russ, George, and I built the house over two years, while Janice kept us fed and made us laugh with her eccentric wisdom.
    And I fell in love for the second and last time in my life. I couldn’t imagine waking up in any other man’s arms.
    And so we lived happily ever after, except that I’m a mouthy bastard, which makes for some sparks. But hey, it keeps things spicy. And we’re planning to name the first kid Remy Martin.
    NOT.

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    Summer Fever
    Copyright © 2008 by Catt Ford

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