And yet, there was one last secret, one last breath that I was holding on to.

It was time to let it go.

“Knight?”

“Mmm?” He stirred as if he’d been lost in thought, a pinky finger rising to trickle over the skin of my knee. He’d been staring at the slow motion of the windmill off in the distance, turning like sand in an hourglass.

“I have a question, and I need you to answer it honestly.”

“Okay.”

“If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?”

He peeked at me, a soft half-smile to his lips. “You don’t know?”

I bit down on my own smile, feigning innocence. “No.” I needed to hear it from him.

Again.

Always.

“It doesn’t matter where on this earth I am. All I need is you, by my side.”

“Are you sure?”

He grinned, wrapping an arm around me to tug me in closer as a slight chill began to fill the air. “We could be in the middle of the sandstone desert with no water or food and I would die a happy man, as long as I was with you.”

I bit down on my lip as a warmth washed over me. “What if there was another party to our lives?”

He shifted, “What do you mean?”

“I mean,” I took in a deep breath, knowing that the next words out of my mouth would change us forever, “that it’s time to go home.”

He turned towards me, adjusting us so that our legs were flushed against each other, our breaths mingling, we were so close. “I am home.” He pressed a soft kiss to my nose.

“I know,” I cupped his firm jawline, and leaned into it, kissing it briefly, “but we can’t live like this forever.”

“Why not?”

“Because, we have to worry about someone else, now.”

I let a meaningful silence fill the air and it took him a moment before his eyes widened and he glanced downwards, at my belly, “You mean that…”

“Yes, Knight, I do mean that…”

A smile lit up his face and he grabbed me, pulling me to straddle him as he stared into my eyes, happiness pouring from his. “We’re going to have a baby?”

“Yes, Knight, I’m pregnant. And it’s going to need a home. A family.” I wrapped my arms around his neck, staring into the happy creek-brown eyes that I loved. “And there’s only one place I can think of where it would grow up loved and cherished by people other than us.”

“Are you saying…?”

“Yes, Knight. It’s time to go back home to Vegas,” I pulled a final ribbon from my pocket. One I’d been holding on to since I found out I was pregnant. The last one I would ever give him, because he would hold on to it forever. I tied it around his wrist. “To our family.”

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