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“I’ll have to message her mommy and her Auntie Elizabeth and see if she’s free,” Rae replied. It was Sunday. Neither girl had school, but Rae wasn’t sure of Madison’s plans, or even if Madison and Cooper had to work or not.
Both Elizabeth and Madison had been life savers, keeping Lilly on many occasions and while they moved into the townhouse and unpacked. Many of Jimmy’s teammates helped them move in. She met so many of them she still couldn’t recall all their names. The Marshals’ movers delivered her stuff from Iowa and all of Ashley Carona’s belongings too. The garage was crowded with boxes they’d have to go through.
“Lilly, did you feed Teddy yet?” Rae asked, staring at the empty food bowl in the kitchen.
“I forgot,” Lilly said. She instantly went to the container with his food and scooped some out, pouring it into his bowl. Then she got another star sticker from Rae and placed it on the chart.
All of Rae’s lady parts warmed when Jimmy pressed kisses to the back of her neck. He had that effect on her. His touch, his kisses ignited something inside of her that held a sexual desire she’d never experienced. And that desire only existed because of her complete trust in him and her consuming love for him. The sex, from that first night at the hotel in New Jersey, was intense and raw with a complete emotional honesty. She opened herself to him unlike she had with any other man ever in her life.
“Do you need to do schoolwork today? Wilson asked her.
“It can wait until tomorrow after you deploy on your next case,” she said.
She had to start her English class over at a new college under her new name. But that was okay. She was still focused on her goal of becoming a teacher. She’d met Garcia’s wife, who was a teacher, and she encouraged her. She liked Sienna a lot.
As of now she wasn’t working. Jimmy had convinced her she could take some time off work to get the house and Lilly settled, and to start her class again. Lilly was in a three day a week, full-day preschool program at the neighborhood school the other children went to. It was walking distance from their home. She couldn’t wait until spring arrived and she could walk Lilly to and from school.
The horrors of the month before entered her thoughts occasionally, but she’d learned coping techniques from Joe Lassiter. And Lilly was doing well enough that she didn’t worry about her nonstop any longer.
Wilson embraced her and kissed her again. “I’m really proud of you,” he said. He pulled a box from his pocket and opened it. A solitaire diamond was set in the ring within. “I know I love you. I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”
Happy tears filled her eyes.
“Marry him, Mommy,” Lilly chimed in.
Wilson laughed. He’d told Lilly he was going to propose and showed her the ring before Rae came down.
Rae wrapped her arms around them both. “Yes, I’ll marry him.”
The End