Three Wishes(143)
“Sorry, sorry,” she mumbled, finding Nate’s hand, “now, cake.”
“Finally,” Fazire grumbled as if he’d been waiting millennia rather than forty-five minutes.
They moved to the door, Nate flipping open his phone and calling their driver. His hand left Lily’s but only so his arm could slide along her shoulders, pulling her to his side as they walked. This he did a great deal and Lily’s step fell in practised tandem with Nate’s.
While speaking to their driver, Nate watched as Tash shoved Jon then Jon wrapped his arm around Tash’s neck and pulled her against him much as Lily was against Nate with obvious differences mainly Tash exclaiming loudly, “Let go!” even though she clearly didn’t want him to.
“Children! You are making a scene,” Fazire declared even more loudly, making his own scene.
Nate flipped his phone closed after he’d told the driver they were ready for him and Lily’s arm wrapped around his waist.
She tilted her head to look up at him.“Are we spending the weekend at the penthouse or going back to Clevedon?”
“London,” Nate stated.
Lily nodded and looked to the ground.
“Lily?” Nate called.
She tilted her head back to him and her lips tipped up at the ends in a ghost of her quirky grin. “Yes?”
“I love you.”
He didn’t say it often, he preferred to show it though Lily did both and often.
Therefore, when he did say it, she reacted, extraordinarily so, gratifyingly so. Her eyes lit then warmed then softened then filled with wonder and awe, though the last bit was normally how she looked at Nate… still.
“I love you too,” she whispered.
Abruptly Nate stopped and so did Lily.
And he thanked time for his children were old enough that they no longer needed to be shielded from Nate’s intense affection for his wife.
He turned Lily in his arms and he gave her a kiss, a real kiss, a kiss that made her breath catch (Nate, with satisfaction, not only heard it, he felt it) and his heart beat powerfully in his chest.
He had no idea that people were staring at the beautiful, loving, happy couple and a few took pictures.
And he couldn’t have cared less.