Total pages in book: 25
Estimated words: 23247 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 116(@200wpm)___ 93(@250wpm)___ 77(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 23247 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 116(@200wpm)___ 93(@250wpm)___ 77(@300wpm)
"And when I think about everything that's happened and everything you did," Betsy continued in a voice that still trembled with pain, "I can't believe I've been so stupid and blind that it's taken me this long to hear what you've been saying all this time without the—-"
Lukas hauled his wife into his arms, and this time she molded her body against his like they were two pieces that were meant to be one.
"I'll give you the words now if you still want it," Lukas said in a voice that was not quite steady.
A teary laugh slipped past her lips. "I will always want it."
"Then I'll say it all the time," Lukas vowed. "I love you, Betsy. I love you. And I will love you and our son until the day I die."
Epilogue
BETSY SETTLED INTO the armchair by the fireplace of their hotel suite before carefully peeling the wax seal off her husband's letter.
To my beautiful wife:
I was told that writing a letter is a must for every man who has found their heart's match, and it is a tradition I find myself surprisingly keen to keep.
Oh, this man.
Who knew her Lukas could be so wonderfully eloquent in his writing? Even though they had now been married for over a year, she could still count on one hand the number of times he had texted her anything other than 'yes' or 'no'.
Another thing I was told was how everything I knew would change once I found the one. And for a time, I did think Kyr was right. Everything did change because of you.
But now I realize he was only partially correct. It was true that everything did change for me, but only when I found not one but two.
And now he was making her cry—-
Because it's you and David that changed everything. It's the two of you that made me who I am. It's the two of you who showed me what it means to pray. And believe. And so my promise to both of you, I will never break. I will love you and our son until the day I die.
—-not just because he had written the sweetest thing ever, but also because when Lukas had told her he was writing her a letter, she had assumed it would be his way of pranking her again.
But she was obviously wrong, and the realization had Betsy dashing to their bedroom, in which she found her husband standing by the window, and her letter in his hand.
"Dear Jake," the billionaire read out loud in a drawl.
"I'm sorry," she cried out. "I thought you were pranking me, so I thought I'd prank you back."
"So you do not really know anyone named Jake?"
She was about to shake her head when her conscience reminded her of a guy in her English class, and his name was...
Jake, Betsy realized miserably.
"May I continue then?"
"No!"
"Thank you."
"But I just said no," she protested.
"I have decided to leave my husband because he's just too big for me."
A strangled gasp escaped her, and Betsy made a desperate lunge for her letter.
"He really is. Too big. His ego, I mean."
But because her husband was extraordinarily tall, Lukas had no trouble holding the letter out of her reach while he went on reading.
"And oh, the length of it."
Betsy jumped as high as she could, but it was to no avail.
"I just can't take it anymore. The length of time that takes him to come? He can't even last more than a minute, I swear."
Betsy could feel herself shrinking as her husband's gaze bored into hers.
"I really thought we were going to prank each other," she said weakly.
"It's over between us. So will you please come and take me away? "
Betsy could only gulp as she watched Lukas crumple her letter before throwing it into the wastebasket. Why did she have this feeling her husband was imagining strangling her the entire time he was doing it?
Lukas took a step towards her, and Betsy couldn't help jumping a step back. "Please don't be mad?"
"I'm not mad," her husband drawled.
"You sound like it, though."
"Do I?"
His stride suddenly lengthened, and panic had her blurting out the first thing that came to her mind. "D-Didn't you say you'll l-love me until the day you—-" Betsy saw his jaw clench, and she realized too late it was absolutely the wrong thing to say.
"I did say that, yes."
"I'm so, so sorry!"
"While my wife, on the other hand, has just written a letter to another man—-"
"It's not real!"
"And asking him to take her away—-"
"But it's really not—-aaaaah!"
Her husband had her up in his arms one moment, and then the next thing she knew he had tossed her straight into the infinity pool outside their suite.
When she made it to the surface, her husband was already in the pool with her, and he still had a terrifyingly gentle look on his gorgeous face.