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much drool."
    Tears stream down her face now. "No. I wasn't. I didn't drool."
    "Oh, you drooled." I pull the scarf that's around her neck free before I slip her wool coat off her shoulders. "You were panting too. I remember the panting."
    The giggles have taken over now and there's no end in sight. She holds tightly to the arms of my coat. "You never...you didn't...you had no clothes on."
    "No clothes?" I arch both brows. "Good idea."
    She straightens and the laughing comes to an abrupt halt as I push my coat off, pull the sweater I'm wearing over my head and lose my shoes, jeans, socks and boxer briefs in twenty seconds flat.
    Her eyes flash over my legs, across my cock and up my firm stomach before they settle on the tattoos that cover my chest and arms.
    "Noah," she whispers as her right hand darts to my forearm and then up my shoulder. She silently traces the outline of my tattoos with her fingers, lovingly stroking the lines. Her fingers float over the scars that are hidden beneath the colorful canvas of my skin. "You're so beautiful."
    I've never told her how much those words mean to me. Alexa has never looked at my body or my face with anything other than love and desire.
    The scar that transcends my cheek draws stares on a daily basis but it's all muted the moment I step into our apartment and her eyes lock with mine. I see myself the way she does now. I'm everything to her. It's more than I ever thought I could be.
    "You're the beautiful one." I yank on the hem of the sweater she's wearing. It's bulky and does nothing to highlight her body but she wanted something warm to wear since it's freezing outside. "Even in this sweater you're still the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen."
    That reignites her laughter. "You bought me this sweater."
    "Bullshit," I say as I pull it over her head. "I wouldn't buy you something that looks like this."
    "Technically," she begins before I unbuckle her jeans. "The kids picked it out for my birthday and you paid for it."
    "Their fashion sense is crap." I shake my head. "Doesn't look like either of them is going to work for my cousins running the fashion empire they've built."
    She laughs even harder at that. "Maybe they'll be photographers."
    "Max is going to be president." I push her jeans down slowly. "Chloe has some options. She'd make a great lawyer. She's got the composure for it."
    "Maybe Chloe will be president." Her hands rest on my shoulders as I kneel down to help her take off her boots. "I want them to be whatever they want to be."
    I look up and into her face. "They'll be exactly who they're meant to be. We'll both make sure of that."
    "You're the best dad in the world, Noah." Her bottom lip trembles slightly. I can't tell if it's from the chill in the apartment or her emotions. "I'm glad you're my children's father."
    "I'm honored to be their father." I kiss her knee. "I'm grateful to be your husband."
    With those words, she lowers herself to her knees, wraps her arms around my neck and kisses me deeply.

CHAPTER 7
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    S he woke up before me. That's exactly the opposite of what I wanted. I'd picked her up after I finished undressing her and I'd carried her to the bed we first made love in. We spent the next few hours wrapped in each other's arms, fucking, talking, sharing.
    The last time Alexa and I were here together, I was afraid to leave this place. Now, as I wake to the bright sunlight pouring in through the open curtains, I realize it's not the place I'm afraid of letting go of, it's the memories.
    I swing my long legs over the side of the bed. I don't even consider finding something to put over my naked body. I need to find my wife. I need to explain what I've been working on.
    I'm too late. I realize it as soon as I walk into the hallway and see the door to my office wide open. I used to lock it when I left here, as if the gesture itself would somehow secure the moments that were captured in the images inside the room.
    I pad across the