Epilogue
Xander
Four months later…
The beautiful Tuscan sky was almost as beautiful as Jia.
The sight of both was enough to steal my breath away.
She was walking up from the beach toward the house. The sun was low, just getting ready to set and it cast her in that brilliant glow , enhancing her ethereal beauty.
“Xander, you still there?” Wes asked.
I pressed the phone to my ear as I refocused on our conversation.
I must have paused for a good minute as I’d watched Jia walk up the path.
“Sorry yeah. I gotta go though buddy.” I chuckled.
Wes was talking work and I would be no good to him with my mind like this. I got the gist of the job. We were investigating a U.S general. He’d started talking about the job specs when I zoned out and my mind decided it would grab the details when I saw Wes and Jack next month.
It might be something I may have to bow out of though if it got as strenuous as the last job because I had something else planned that was going to take up the next few months.
Maybe three or four. It depended.
That plan was more important than the job.
“I just started talking to you,” Wes complained. I could almost imagine him rolling his eyes at me.
He shouldn’t because he was just as loved up as me when it came to his woman.
I was just more open about it. Like I was going to be now.
“My girl just came back and I need her.” I smiled.
“Oh my God Xander… you make me sick. One year and you are the same.”
Yup, one year. Last week was exactly a year since I’d known Jia. A year ago all the shit with Giovanni went down, secrets spilled out into the open and lies were uncovered.
Fuck.
One year and it had been quite the year.
But, the good part of it was just walking through the door of our home and she smiled when she looked at me.
“I’ll be the same for the next million years.” I nodded with a surety even though he couldn’t see me.
“Okay pal, call me when you can.”
“Sure.” I hung up and gave my undivided attention to my girl as she skipped into my arms, and pressed her lips to mine.
The kiss she gave me was like coming home and the type of hunger that consumed me made me want to devour her.
That was exactly what I planned to do. Devour her, here in our paradise home where she was all mine and she had all of me.
It was us.
She felt true to me. Everything that we were as a couple felt like what I’d wanted most. She felt true to me because we both looked out for each other, wanted each other’s happiness, and she healed my heart. She’d healed me and breathed new life into me. That was why I took the consultancy job with Jack and Wes.
