Authors: Liz Reinhardt,Steph Campbell

A Toast to the Good Times (26 page)

When I pull back from her lips, she’s still clutching the ring in her fist. I uncurl her fingers and take the tiny band, sliding it on her ring finger. “Perfect.”

She holds her hand out and admires it. “Landry. Landry, I love you so much!”

I’m unknotting her robe for purposes other than seeing her costume, but when I catch sight of it, my breath gets stuck squarely in my throat.

“Uh, you’re gonna be cold as hell in that.” I have a hard time stopping myself from stammering.

“Do you like it?” She lets the robe shimmy down her shoulders and turns around, first left,
and then
right,
modeling
a costume that’s not much more than a few chains and small pieces of cloth expertly tailored to cover only the most essential bits of her very sexy body.

“What guy didn’t have a serious Leia slave-girl fantasy growing up?” I hold her at arm’s length and ogle her to my heart’s content, chauvinistically satisfied that she’s mine to ogle, mine to come home to, mine completely.

“Just when I think you couldn’t possibly get any hotter...Maybe I should have gone as Han Solo?”

She shakes her head and shimmies on my lap, her skin hot everywhere my hands touch.

“I’ve always loved the idea of Leia and Wolverine...together. Don’t you think it could be fun?”

“Oh, I know it will be,” I assure her.

And I kiss my future wife, the girl of my dreams, the girl I overlooked, undervalued, and learned to fight harder than I ever thought possible for, and the last little shred of world-weary bitterness melts out of me and is replaced with the gorgeous ring of her laugh and the promise of more good times to come.

More by Liz &
Steph
:

Lengths
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a New Adult Contemporary Romance
Other
books currently available by Liz Reinhardt:

Other books currently available by
Steph
Campbell
:
Delicate

Grounding Quinn

My Heart for Yours
(co-written with Jolene Perry)