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“I have no idea. You can add that to the list of a million details we’ll need to figure out.”
A sobering thought washed away my smile. “Your family would never allow you to do it. If Khan and Thor knew we were making plans together, they would object. They don’t like me and wouldn’t support us.”
Freya touched her face. “Yeah, that could be a challenge.”
After a moment she declared, “I’m a grown woman and we’ll just have to show them that we’re set on starting our own country. Albert thinks that we’ll have no problem getting settlers from all around the world.”
“Albert?” I jerked my head back. “How would he know about our plans when we just came up with them?”
“He doesn’t. It’s just that today as we visited places outside the safe zone, he mentioned that he would love to be a settler of a new country.”
“Shelly’s son said that?”
“Yes. Their daughter too. I think even Marco and Shelly were on board for the sense of adventure.”
The idea of a new country was exploding inside my head. “With the right people we could create something spectacular.”
Freya had never looked more beautiful as she sat next to me with hope making her green eyes sparkle. Now that there was a chance that I could have a life with her it suddenly felt so obvious that I could never be truly happy if we were apart. Reaching for her, I pulled her back on my lap and kissed her with a ferocious passion.
Her hands were in my hair as she whispered into my ear, “I want to share my life with you, Victor.”
I felt like flying, when I pulled off her top. “I’m starting to feel the same way about you.”
Freya was chuckling when she removed her bra and licked my upper lip. “Your life would be empty without me. Admit it.”
I focused on getting us naked and this time I was so eager to get inside her that I didn’t bother with the spray.
“Come on, admit it,” Freya pressured. “You are as crazy about me as I am about you.”
“Probably more.” I shocked myself by saying it so blatantly, but now it was out there, and Freya was already moaning and riding me.
Yeah, there’s no way I’m ever giving up what we have. I’ll gladly leave the penthouse and live in a shed as long as it’s for a life with Freya Aurelius.
CHAPTER 13
The Plan
Freya
Over the span of ten days, Victor and I went from fluffy dreams of starting a new country in Europe to making detailed plans. The difference in him was enormous now that we had prospects of a future together. He asked me questions about my childhood and what it was like to have a family.
The things that he had always made fun of, he was now curious about.
“You’ll see when we go to my brother’s wedding. Everyone will be there, and you’d better expect that they’ll give you shit when they find out that we’re together.”
It was rare for Victor and me to talk about our private affairs while at the lab, but we were alone in his office and could let down the façade for a few minutes.
“Your family will freak out and ban me from seeing you again. You know that, don’t you?”
There was a big chance that he was right, but I pretended not to be worried. “I’m not sure which of my plans they’ll object to the most. Starting a new country or choosing you for my husband.”
A sound came from Victor’s throat before he looked away.
I had wanted to talk to him about marriage since we found out that there was a way for us to be together. It was no secret that I wanted marriage while he was against the concept. Now that I had brought up the subject and he had ignored it, my words failed me as we stood with this cultural canyon between us.
Victor opened his mouth to speak when there was a quick knock on the door followed by Shelly and Celeste walking in.
“We thought you might like to see Shelly’s new idea for optimizing the artificial womb.” The two women were so occupied with their findings that they went straight into talking about extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
