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Sometime around dawn, after rounds of torrid make-up sex, we lay in bed together, our fingers laced. Brodie was tracing delicate patterns on the skin of my shoulder.
I snuggled against him, feeling sated and incredibly happy. “Your apartment is in Oklahoma, right? Mine’s in Kentucky. So where do we go from here?”
“Well,” he said, and he leaned in to kiss my shoulder where he’d been touching it. “I’m happy to go anywhere you are as long as it involves an altar, conjugal living quarters, and room for a small dog.”
I laughed. “A dog?”
“Yeah, we gotta get a dog. Practice for having kids down the road or something.”
I snorted. “Let’s make that a lot further down the road, okay?”
“You bet, baby.” He smoothed a lock of hair away from my face. “So did the producers contact you yet?”
I rolled over in bed to face him. “Contact me about what?”
“Endurance Island.” He wagged his eyebrows at me. “They’re casting a Power Couples season, and they’re bringing back people from other shows. They asked me if we were interested. I told them I’d have to talk it over with my wife, of course.”
“You told them I’d be your wife?”
“Well, I was hopeful.” He grinned, unrepentant. “No sense in being a pessimist.”
I reached out and tickled his sides as punishment, enjoying his squirming. “Your wife wants to know what the prize is.”
He considered for a moment. “I think Endurance Island has a two-million-dollar prize.”
“Hmm. That’s a million for me and a million for you if we win that thing.”
“So, are you interested?”
“Do you promise not to vote me off again?”
A wicked grin curved his mouth. “No promises.”
I tickled him harder. “No deal, then!”
Brodie laughed and struggled, eventually pinning my hands with his stronger ones. “Come on. Don’t you want to use that beautiful brain and scheme your way to the money?”
I did, actually. “Only if you’re at my side the entire time.”
“They’d have to pry me away from you with a crowbar.” He leaned in and kissed me again. “It’s you and me always, or no deal.”
“You and me,” I breathed. “Always. That sounds pretty good.”
“It sounds f**king amazing.”
It did at that.
** The End **