Falling Down(156)

He chuckles. "I love you too, wife."
"It's kinda weird."
"We'll adjust."
"We will. If I can adjust to living in the same house with Xander who is constantly panty-checking me, I can adjust to this."
He chuckles. "I'll be honest. I kinda like that you're wearing my ring and you've got my last name. Luciana Kingston."
"Mrs. Jesse Kingston. Do you know how many times I wrote that on my notebooks in high school?" I laugh.
"That's not weird at all," he tells me, his tone dripping with sarcasm.
"What? Maybe my writing it sealed our fate. I did make a list of wishes one day."
"What did you wish for?"
"I wished I'd meet you and we'd have a special connection."
"Came true."
"I wished we'd make music together, write songs, and sing together."
"Came true."
"Wow. Yeah. I wished you'd kiss me and, uh, we'd have crazy insane sex."
"Came true, but wild drunk crazy monkey sex."
I nod. This moment is profound. "Maybe my list was magic," I whisper.
"Maybe you've got Nana Russo's mojo."
"That's not supposed to work for personal gain."
He shrugs. "Whatever it is, it brought us together. Fate, the universe, Nana Russo's mojo."
"It's been a bumpy ride already. Hopefully the road smoothes out soon."
"Don't hold your breath, Cupcake. We've got a four month tour coming up in two weeks--groupies, media, gossip--and to top that off, we've got your mom."
I sigh. "Again, why can't you bullshit me just once?"
"Because if I've got to go through all this with my eyes wide open, I'm dragging you right along with me."
"Awww. If that isn't true love, I don't know what is."
He snorts. "You grab the ibuprofen and water and I'll order us some coffee and breakfast."
"Bacon, please. And a Coke. Coke is the cure-all for hangovers."
"Who fed you that line?"
I shrug. "I don't remember."
"There is no cure-all for a hangover. See, if I were to feed you a line of bullshit, I could say wild monkey newlywed sex is the cure-all for a hangover."
"But you don't feed me lines of bullshit, you just drag me through whatever hell we've got to face."
He throws an arm around my shoulders. "At least we're facing it together, right?"
I nod. A positive thought comes to me and I almost bounce like Meggie. "That's true. That means I don't have to face my mom alone."
He groans.
"Isn't being married fun?"

The End.
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Acknowledgements
I'm not even sure where to begin. There are so many people to thank.

I'll start with my fantastic Betalicious Beauties: Eileen Robinson, Kerri Lofgren-Miller, Autumn Oertel, Heather Wishnia, Kim Carr, Jessica Butler, and Lisa Matheson Sylva. You ladies kept me going when I was ready to throw in the towel and pumped me up through the edits from hell. I am so very thankful for everything you've done and continue to do.

To Lisa Ravenscroft and Lydia, the HeaBook ShelfBlogger: Thank you SO much for your support and efforts for the Release Day Blitz and everything to do with Falling Down. You both are incredible and I can't tell you how much your help and support has meant to me.

A great big thank you to Jake Ingrassia, actor extraordinaire, for your help with regard to the movie and acting industry as well as technical terms I never would have known. Your character will be making an appearance in the next book... stay tuned.