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"Luke! Luke!"

Susannah screamed his name. Not Jordan's. His heart filled with love, relief and a passion so intense that he lost all control. With a guttural groan of ecstasy, he filled her.

She clutched him close, her arms wrapped tight around him. "That was…"

"Like coming home," he murmured, rolling to his side with her clasped against his sweat-slick chest.

She tensed as she reminded him, "You missed your flight to Louisiana."

"Yes, I did."

"You'll have to book another flight."

He smiled. "I will, but next time I'll get two tickets. I'd like to take you home with me. I want you to meet my family."

She pressed a kiss to his chest. "I'd like that, but I don't know when I can join you. I have to take care of some things for my father and help Jordyn with her wedding."

"What exactly do you mean by join me?"

"Your life is in Baton Rouge," she said. "Your family. I don't expect you to give all that up for me."

He laughed. "I would give up everything that I have—that I am—for you."

"I don't want you to do that," she insisted. "I'll join you in Baton Rouge after I've taken care of everything in Lansing."

"You have a life here, too," he said. "A career at the college. Jordyn…"

"My life is wherever you are," she assured him. "Jordyn understands."

"I want to meet her."

"She wants to meet you, too." Her face flushed. "I was supposed to call her when I found you."

He pressed a kiss to her forehead, where her stress line left an indent between her brows. He couldn't imagine the stress she had endured the past twenty-five years. Alone.

"Don't worry," he said. "We'll talk to her together, just like we're going to do everything else. I didn't spend twenty-five years looking for you to be apart from you for any reason."

Her eyes brightened with hope and joy. "No?"

"We'll handle your father together," he said. "And we'll both help Jordyn with her wedding. We're not just soul mates, Susannah. We're going to be partners in this life."

That line eased, and a smile curved her generous lips. "So I'm not going to be able to get rid of you?"

"No. We're spending this life—and all our future lives—together. And our daughter's wedding is not the only one I want to plan," he warned her. "I want you to become my wife, Susannah."

He waited for her hesitation or for her to outright reject the idea, saying it was too soon, that they really didn't know each other very well.

But she pressed her fingertip between his brows and a kiss on his lips. "Yes."

"Yes?"

"I know how short a life can be cut," she reminded him. "I don't want to waste any time that we could be spending together, either. I love you, and I want to spend my life with you."

"I love you, too."

It had taken twenty-five years and two lives for him, but they were finally together again. Forever.

THE END