Sarah turned to see his crew standing just inside the bay.
Jude grinned at his guys. “You won’t ever have to. All she has to do is say she’s mine and I’m the luckiest man alive.”
“You are lucky to be alive,” Roger corrected. “Two minutes more and you’d have been buried under the entire building. Not sure if you remember, but the whole thing came down.”
“Thank you for getting me out.”
“Wasn’t just me.” Roger gestured to the others in the room. “Guess we’ll all be getting a chewing from Command.”
“Won’t be the first time,” one of the other crew said.
“Won’t be the last,” Jude finished, then returned his gaze to Sarah. “Think you can put up with having these guys around constantly?”
Sarah looked into his amazing blue eyes and let herself drown in what she saw there, the need to love and be loved.
“I’ve told you I always wanted a big family.”
Cheers went up from around the bed, but neither Sarah nor Jude looked at his coworkers or heard their teasing words.
They had eyes only for each other as Jude said, “Yeah, well, there’s more than one way to give you that.”
Sarah smiled, because she knew what he meant and looked forward to each and every moment of the rest of their lives.
Together.
Forever.
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