His Fire Inside

“Hmm...a little it’s a big day our daughter is getting married. I have to make sure you’re still alive. It would be a tragedy if you weren’t alive to give the bride away.”

“Maybe it would make her give it more time before she married him. Six months, they’ve known each other six damn months. Then he’s taking her off to Chicago.”

“I knew you less than six months before we got married. She loves him and his corporate office is in Chicago, not France. He has a private jet, we have a private jet. It’s not as though he’s taking her off into the wilds of Africa. Grace is a big girl now, and she knows her heart.” I lick a flat male nipple and smile when his cock jumps in my hand. Viagra has yet to be necessary in our bedroom.

I’m rolled under him and sigh at the weight of him on me, the way he’s every breath I take. Rourke kisses me until I’m dizzy. “Stop making sense.”

“Stop talking and make love to me.”

“Your wish is my command.”

Ten years after that

“Olivia, love of my life, what are you doing?” His voice comes out of the dark in our bedroom.

“Just checking to see if you were still alive.” I whisper against the scar of his chest as I gently squeeze his cock in my hand. “Here I was married to a man who believed his days were numbered in years and in less than six weeks we’ll be celebrating our fortieth wedding anniversary and our son’s wedding. I think it’s sweet how he wants to get married on our anniversary because he wants the same long-lasting marriage we have.”

Rourke chuckles, “I had to sit him down to educate him it had nothing to do with the date and everything to do with patience.”

I poke his ribs. “And love.”

He rolls me under him. “And love. And not imagining your life without them in it. And knowing they make you better, your life better but a whole lot of patience too.”

Poking him again we laugh as he pulls me close. “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome, my love.” I fall back to sleep with the feel of Rourke all around, in every breath I take the way I’ve fallen asleep for over forty years. And it’s been even better than I ever dreamed it would be.