First Class Justice (First Class Novels) (19 page)

“Well, it wouldn’t be full time. I only work two days a
week.”

“Two days?” Katy was surprised.

“Well, I have a quiet office day as well, but it’s just me
and the receptionist. So, I guess, I’m offering you a job. Interested?”

Katy took two seconds to think about it and then smiled.

“Yes, I think I am.”

“Think you are what?” Mark asked, coming to stand next to
her. He put his arm possessively around her waist and glared at Alan.

“Mark?” Katy smiled. “This is Dr. Rainer. He’s an orthopedic
surgeon and has just offered me a job.”

“This is my…” Katy looked at Mark. “This is Mark, my
boyfriend.”

Mark shook hands with the doctor and looked at Katy.

“Congratulations?” he said.

“Maybe,” she grinned.

That night, Mark and Katy enjoyed a delicious meal together
and then took their glass of wine and sat out on the balcony of their
apartment. It was mid-April and the days were starting to get a little longer
and little warmer. Tonight was the first night they didn’t grab a jacket on
their way outside.

The lights flickered on the river and Katy savored the moment.

“Perfect,” she sighed.

“What?” Mark asked.

“Everything,” she grinned. “You, us, the apartment, the
city, Janie and Matt, the future, the wine. All of it. I can’t imagine it being
any better.”

A small gust of wind whipped across the balcony and Katy
shivered.

Mark stood and stepped inside.

“I’ll grab you something.”

He returned with a small blanket and draped it over her
shoulders.

“Thanks,” she smiled up at him.

Mark bent over and kissed her on the nose.

“I’m glad you’re happy.”

“Oh Mark, I don’t think I could ever be happier.”

He stepped in front of her and bent down on one knee,
pulling a box from his pocket. Katy’s eyes opened wide and she sat up in her
chair. Her hand went to her lips.

“Katy, I know that I asked you this once before and it was the
wrong time. But a lot has happened in the past few weeks. There have been a lot
of changes, for both of us. And they have all been wonderful. All those changes
have led us to this moment, right here, right now.”

Mark took a deep breath and looked into her eyes. He
couldn’t tell what she was thinking.

“I agree with you. Everything is perfect. There is only one
thing that would make it just the tiniest
more
perfect,” he smiled. “I
don’t want to be your boyfriend. I want to be your husband. I want you to be my
wife. I love you, Katy. Marry me? We don’t have to get married this year, or
even next year, but marry me? Please?”

Katy moved her hand slowly away from her lips as a smile
formed lighting up her big brown eyes.

“I love you Mark Lathem. With all that I am. Yes. I’ll marry
you.”

“WOO HOO!!” Mark screamed as he pulled her to him and they
fell onto the concrete laughing and crying, smiling and kissing.

“Perfect,” he whispered, as he opened the velvet box and
slipped the diamond engagement ring on her finger.

Katy’s breath caught in her throat as she saw the exquisite
princess diamond solitaire slide on her hand, the gem sparkling brilliantly in
the moonlight.

“Perfect,” she agreed.

*****

Mark kissed her forehead, her eyebrows, her eyelids and her
temples. He kissed the tip of her nose, her cheeks, her chin and her lips.

“I worship you,” he breathed as he kissed her ears.

Katy’s eyes were closed, her wrists in Mark’s hand above her
head on the pillow. She was naked and Mark had starting kissing her toes and
taken his sweet time slowly inching up her body leaving a trail of desire in
his wake. He had used his tongue to lick her clitoris ‘til she thought she would
scream if he didn’t make her come right then. But he had grinned and said she
needed to wait.

Now, as he lay covering her body with his, his skin rubbing
over hers, her nipples begging for his touch, her hips bucking to find relief,
he said it again.

“I love you. Now and forever. You are mine. Always.”

He let go of her wrists and she wrapped them around his
waist and buried her face into his neck.

“I love you,” she whispered, kissing his shoulder.

Mark pushed her legs apart and lifted himself up onto his
hands. He was poised at her entrance and as he gazed into her eyes, and she
into his, they knew the bond they had forged would never be broken.

They had come together under the most traumatic of events,
but they had turned the darkness into light, the scary into safe, and the
nightmares into their own happily ever after. Katy would never forget those
terrifying thirty hours, but she had found the strength to move on, to climb
the hurdle and not look back. Her knight in shining armor had rescued her from
the ropes, but she had battled her own demons and won. And now they would enjoy
their reward.

He pushed into her and Katy cried out as he filled her
completely.

“I will never get enough of you,” he growled, as he withdrew
and entered her again.

Katy held his hips and pulled herself up to him as he
entered her. The sensation of their joining was incredible and the sound of the
bodies coming together was sensual and stimulating. All of their senses were on
overload as they made love, excitement building, and their hearts overflowing.

“It only gets better,” she gasped, holding him inside her as
her orgasm began at their union and rushed down to her toes and all the way to
the tip of her head. Mark watched her as she bit her lip and arched her back
and when she cried out his name, he tumbled down after her, coming hard and
with such sensation it took him several minutes to recover.

As they lay together, their bodies still as one, panting for
air, their world was absolutely perfect.

*****

A few nights later, Mark and Katy once again celebrated
their engagement. This time it was with Matt and Janie at their sprawling
Battery Park apartment. The women hugged and the two brothers shook hands and
slapped each other on the back.

“Nice job,” Matt said. “You’re welcome.”

Mark grinned. “So you’re gonna take credit for this?”

“Well, I
did
have the master plan,” he laughed.

They opened a bottle of champagne and toasted to the future.
It was a fun evening and as Mark and Katy said their goodbyes and headed home,
Janie was overwhelmed and began to cry.

“What is it my sweet Janie?” Matt asked as he kissed her
cheeks, tasting her salty tears.

“Happy tears,” she sputtered.

Matt grinned and pulled her close.

“Can you believe it?” she asked, gaining control over her
emotions.

“What?” Matt looked down at his wife.

“It was a year ago this week.”

Matt thought for a moment, the realization of her words
sinking in.

“It was!”

Janie nodded. “A year ago I was lonely and sad and I came to
New York and I found you.” She looked up at her husband and placed her hand on
his cheek. “And now look?”

Matt kissed her sweetly. “The day that changed my life,” he
remembered, smiling.

“And now Katy and Mark. Who would have thought?”

“Well I thought,” Matt grinned, feeling very proud of
himself.

“Yes you did,” Janie agreed. “You were very sneaky with that
whole Seattle thing.”

Matt grinned bigger. “You made quite a catch, didn’t you?”

“Yes, I did.”

“I got you and I helped out my brother. I think I deserve
some kind of reward, don’t you?” Matt winked and Janie laughed.

“Yep, you got yourself good and hitched,” she smiled. “And Mark
appears to be well on his way in your footsteps. So then, which brother is next
in receiving your matchmaking skills?”

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