B01EU62FUC (R) (15 page)
Authors: Kirsten Osbourne
“It did me good to wait. Taught me patience.”
She snorted at that. “Sure it did.”
He grinned. “Okay, it made me
think
about learning patience.”
“I do love you, Jesse Savoy.”
“And I love you, Valerie Savoy. I’ll spend the rest of my life proving it to you. Starting with tonight.” He carried her to the bedroom.
EPILOGUE
T
wo months later Jesse handed Valerie the script for their season finale. He sat next to her on the couch in the trailer they shared, flipping through his while she read over hers.
Her eyes lit up, and she squealed. “I get to say ‘yes’ this time! Finally!”
He chuckled. “Steven told me they were going to write in another proposal.”
She put her hand on her still-flat stomach. “They need to. By the time we start filming for the next season after a month off, I’m going to be showing!” She flipped a couple of more pages. “We’re doing a quick wedding a week after the proposal at the ranch.”
“Oh good. Poor Dylan is tired of waiting for Jo to put out.”
She giggled. “As tired as Jesse was of waiting for Valerie the Virgin?” Somehow the name no longer bothered her.
“Oh, no. Not nearly that tired of waiting. Jesse was about to
die
when you married him!”
She grinned, resting her head against his shoulder. “Well, now neither Jesse nor Dylan will have to die.”
“Curtis accepted a plea bargain today.” Jesse kept his voice soft and even, knowing the subject was still sensitive, but not nearly as much so as it was.
“How long will he serve?”
“Thirty years. And he’s agreed to undergo psychiatric help as well. He won’t be eligible for parole for twenty years.”
She let out the breath she’d been holding. “Good. I hope he gets the help he needs while he’s there.”
“You do? You don’t hate him?”
“He’s not someone I care to be around, but I’m not going to waste my energy hating him. That would only hurt me. I feel sorry for him really. I’m married to the man I love, and we’re expecting our first child. I have a career that seems to only be going up. He’s spending at least the next twenty years in prison. No, I pity him.”
Jesse pulled her to him and kissed her softly. “One of the things I like best about you is your huge heart.”
She smiled, touching the tip of her finger to his nose playfully. “You know what I like best about you?”
He shook his head. “What?”
“Your refusal to give up on me.”
“I couldn’t. I saw clearly that someday we’d be right here. I’d have you in my arms and have the right to make love with you anytime I could talk you into it!”
Valerie kissed his chin. “You don’t seem to have any trouble talking me into that or anything else.”
He grinned. “I know. Life is good.”
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