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I shook my head, but we both knew he was wearing me down.
Eruption - Chapter 18
Thursday
I took another bite of the dark chocolate mousse cake.
"Is that one your favorite?" James asked as he took a bite too.
"I don't know, they're all amazing."
After the pastry chef had reprimanded us for waiting until a week before the wedding to pick a cake, he had laid out an assortment of the most delicious cakes I had ever tasted. It was good we had skipped dinner because I apparently didn't have any self control around wedding cakes.
"You know what this one reminds me of?" James asked.
I nodded. "I was thinking the same thing. Even though it's not lava cake, it tastes like that chocolate cake from your country club."
"Our country club."
I shrugged my shoulders.
"It kind of takes me back to our first date. Our first real date I mean. Not just when I seduced you in my office." He took another bite of the cake.
I smiled up at him. "I seduced you."
He laughed and shook his head.
"You pretended that I was your wife on that date. Do you remember?"
"I remember." He was looking at me in the most loving way.
"Did you ever think we'd be here right now?"
"At that moment?" He ran his hand through his hair. "I think I was just terrified by my own reaction to you."
I knew he was referring to his addiction problem. I looked down at the cake.
"I wasn't really in a good place when we met, Penny."
"I know, I just meant..."
"You saved me."
He had never said that to me before. I swallowed hard. I felt tears welling in my eyes.
"Suddenly the only thing I wanted in life was to see you smile." He reached out and took my hand. "So yeah, I thought we'd eventually be here. This is everything I've always wanted. We certainly had our ups and downs getting here, though." He smiled at me.
"You mean, you certainly enjoyed pushing me away?"
"I'm not going to ever push you away again." He ran his thumb along the palm of my hand.
"I know."
He pulled me into his chest and put his hand on the side of my face. "You're quite sentimental tonight."
I breathed in his heavenly scent. "Sometimes I think about when you said you wanted to go to Vegas and..."
"This is what I want too."
