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Ellie fell silent and watched Leo, not daring to hope.

"Why do you think I married you four years ago?"

"Because you got carried away with the excitement of the New Year approaching and the excitement of being in Las Vegas and you'd had a little too much to drink?."

"It wasn't the first time I had been in Las Vegas," Leo told her, speaking slowly and carefully and taking his time because he was not going to allow pride to alter a word he had to say. "And it certainly was not the first time I had attended an extravagant New Year's Eve celebration. Carry on with your explanation."

"You weren't in complete control?neither of us were?."

"I was in sufficient control to arrange a limo to take us to get the marriage license and then on to that ridiculous drive-through affair. So go on?."

"Why then?" She seemed to be holding her breath in heady expectation of an answer she just knew wasn't going to come.

"Do you remember what I told you that night? What I told you on several occasions, in fact, during the course of the time we were together?"

"Well?you said that you loved me." Ellie laughed quickly, rushing in to dismiss the possibility that that love still existed, but the gravity of his expression sent all her impulses racing wildly through her.

"I saw you and you took my breath away. I talked to you and I felt like I had never felt with any other woman in my life before, and there had been many." He slid his fingers through her hair and held them there so that the warmth of his hand pressed against her scalp. "You enchanted me and I fell in love with you. It was no game for me. I married you because I wanted to. Can you imagine how I felt when I woke up to find that you had disappeared? I tried to track you down but all roads led to a brick wall and for the past four years I now see that I was inwardly raging. Caroline was my screwed-up attempt to kill the past and I know that now. When I saw your picture in the newspaper, read your name, knew that at last I could find you, all the old emotions came to the front again, and then I saw you. You still took my breath away. I talked to you and you filled my soul up just like you did all that time ago, swept away all the cynicism that I had built up about the institution of marriage. That's when I knew that I had to break it off with Caroline."

Ellie felt as though she might faint at any moment. Was that what it felt like when dreams come true?

"I tried to hate you when I realized that your bombshell was far bigger than mine had been, but in the end, all I could think was that I had my wife and a son. That's why I want you to come back with me, Ellie. Because I want you. I want to wake up to your glorious face every morning, I want to have my son with both of us, I want you to have more babies for me?and if you don't love me now, then you can learn to. I can teach you?." There, he had laid his heart on the line and he watched her face anxiously, not quite knowing what he would do if she rejected him again.

Then she smiled and her smile said it all.

"I've been waiting?." Ellie murmured. "I was waiting all my life to meet you and then I did, and I've spent the past four years in a vacuum, waiting for you to come back, not even realizing it. My darling, I'm so glad you've returned?."

"You love me." There was fierce joy in the statement and it intensified when she nodded her head. "My

arling," he said shakily, kissing her gently on her mouth, "our lives begin right now?."

The End



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