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like that to you."
    "Noah, please," she does her best to sound exasperated because it comes out all kinds of sexy instead. "Don't say fuck in my classroom."
    I've learned, through much painful and aching trial and error, to control my body around my gorgeous wife. That's not to say that the constant ache inside of me to be close to her is any less now. I've just matured to the point that I can hold off until we're alone together in a place that preferably isn't in the middle of a school.
    "You're tempting me, Alexa," I growl. "You're teasing me now."
    "Am I?" Her hands leap to her hips. "Is that what I'm doing?"
    I'm a millisecond away from grabbing her and bending her over her desk when we both turn towards the sound of footsteps in the hallway. A woman scurries past the open door, her arms loaded with books.
    "You best behave." I warn my wife with a wag of my finger in the air. "You don't want to get sent to detention."
    "Enough with the kinky school talk." She giggles. "It was actually very kind of you to bring the students those photo books, Noah. You know how much they love seeing you."
    "I love seeing them too."
    It's the truth. I've tried to stay semi-involved with each class that Alexa's taught since we became engaged. She goes out of her way to give her students a full experience including buying supplies out of her own pay check. I stop by at least a couple of times each semester with a gift in hand. Sometimes, I get them new coloring markers or sketch pads. Today it was a photo book that a friend of mine published last year for kids. I bought every copy the store had in stock. Tomorrow I'll deliver the ten I have left to the community center I used to volunteer at.
    "I heard that you're going to Boston with Ben on your mom's birthday."
    Awkward news travels fast. I left the hospital less than two hours ago. My brother must have my wife on speed dial.
    "Ben called you?" Clarification isn't necessary. It's a simple stall technique. As much as Alexa hates dealing with anything death related, I know it's got to sting that I'm spending a day like that with anyone but her.
    "Kayla." She busies herself with straightening a pile of papers on her desk. "Your mom would have been sixty-years-old that day."
    It's a foreign concept to me. I remember my mom as a vibrant woman who loved working in her garden and volunteering. It's hard to imagine her as a grandmother in her sixth decade of life.
    "I'll only be gone for the day, Alexa. I'll be back first thing the next day."
    She crosses the room quickly until her hands are resting on my chest. She fiddles with one of the buttons on my blue dress shirt. "You take all the time you need. I want you and Ben to spend that time together. I know it's important for you both."
    I married the most perfect woman in the world. How the fuck did that happen?
    "We're still going to Boston this weekend, right?" I ask as I scoop her hands into mine. "You haven't forgotten about our trip, have you?"
    She studies my face, her eyes resting on my scar. "The world's most handsome man invited me away for a weekend. I wouldn't miss that for the world."
    ***
    "W e should have picked up a sandwich at Axel Boston on our way over." She's literally doubled over in laughter from her own joke. "How funny would that have been?"
    I rest both of our overnight bags on the floor just inside the door of the penthouse before I close it behind me. "You know how much I hate sandwiches, Alexa. What the fuck?"
    That brings up a snort. A very loud, very sexy, snort. Tears flood her eyes. "Do...do you...Noah, you remember..."
    "What?" I grab hold of her waist. "Do I remember that I had a raging hard-on when you brought me a sandwich the first time?"
    "Oh, my God." She slaps my stomach. "No. I wasn't going to say that."
    "You couldn't keep your eyes off my dick." I tilt my chin towards my groin. "If memory serves me, you drooled all over this floor. It was right here. You may have ruined the finish of the floor there was so