She flushed with passion and embarrassment, unable as usual to take her dues. “But you didn’t, and now you’ll have everything you ever dreamed of and deserve. I won’t have to feel perpetually sad and guilty that my presence in your life deprived you of such a huge thing.”
“It will be huge only because I will share it with you. But if not for you, for your forgiveness and your desire to be part of a family, I wouldn’t have accepted. So they do owe you. Just as I owe you my happiness, my very life.”
Crying out, she pulled him down to her. “And I owe you mine.”
And she took him inside her, taking him home, his one and only home, forever.
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