‘You mean with me and Anna and all those babies you want us to have…’ How was it possible that she wanted to laugh and cry at the same time?
‘That’s right, my darling. The old year is on its way out, just like my old life is. The significance of the timing wasn’t lost on me as I pulled out all the stops to get here, to see you. The end of something and the beginning of something else, something wonderful. For ever is in front of us…and it’s perfect…’
‘Yes,’ Tessa breathed. ‘Isn’t it?’
‘So what do we do? Go back down or just stay up here…?’
‘Go back down, I think…’ She smiled at him lovingly. ‘But now I don’t think I’ll be coming up to my room to avoid the midnight hour…’
Was it her imagination or did Bill and his wife exchange a look of satisfaction when she told them that dinner would now be for two and that they would both be enjoying the celebrations together?
It didn’t matter. All that mattered was that the man she loved was by her side and when the clock struck twelve, the lips that touched her own promised a future she had never dared dream of…