"Well, we'd have a very wealthy dog," Thomas said, trying not to smile. He grinned and gave Greta another sweet kiss. God, but he loved her. Sometimes it terrified him, as if the other shoe would someday drop.
As if something terrible might come flying out of his past to take her away, or drive her from him, or worse, destroy her. But he couldn't go do that dark road now.
Instead, he brushed his thumb fondly across her cheek. "Perhaps no sapphires, then. We always were a bit of an austere family."
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Date: 2018-05-07 03:21 am (UTC)As if something terrible might come flying out of his past to take her away, or drive her from him, or worse, destroy her. But he couldn't go do that dark road now.
Instead, he brushed his thumb fondly across her cheek. "Perhaps no sapphires, then. We always were a bit of an austere family."