Her Reluctant Wife: A Lesbian Age Gap Romance

all his talents, I want you to have this. No, I need you to have

it. Please. I’ll cover the insurance for it.” She popped the lid on

the box, revealing the necklace, but the tears in Coralyn’s eyes

made it obvious that she’d known all along what was in the

box.

“You said you didn’t bring the box.” Her voice was thick

with emotions.

“I might have told you a bit of a white lie because I said this

wasn’t about that, but it kind of is too. Your dad painstakingly

made this. He remade it every year for your mom. It embodies

their love and connection and commitment. It has nothing to

do with me. I’ll make a bill of sale for you, gifting it to you, so

that it’s final.”

“Do I have to sign that too?” Coralyn asked wickedly, the

spark coming back to her eyes, a faint pink rising in her

cheeks. “Because if I do, can you leave it on your desk so I

can take at least two weeks to read and sign it?”

“Oh, you’re a joker, are you? This is the real Coralyn

Anderson? I knew you were wicked smart and determined,

amazing, sensual, and so many other things, but I didn’t know

you had that kind of wry wit in you.”

Coralyn’s brow tilted up. “Maybe there are lots of things

you don’t know about me. And lots of things I don’t know

about you.”

“That has to be true, because right now, I feel like there’s an

ass load that I don’t know about myself either.”

Coralyn sighed. Her hands dropped to Giana’s waist and

tightened there. “We aren’t ever going to get back what we

had, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still good things

coming. My dad always said that after my mom died. There