Laughing in relief, in joy, in overwhelming love, he backed her to it, then lifted her, setting her down next to his laptop. Putting his hands on her thighs, he opened them, then stepped in between, coming up flush to her body.

Ah, yeah, he’d missed this. So damned much. “Seems strong enough.”

She shoved his shirt up and put her lips to the spot right over his heart.

Undone, he held her close. “I’m thinking it’s plenty strong enough.”

“The desk?”

“You. Me. Us. All of it.”

Smiling, she pulled him down with her. “Well, then, what are we waiting for…?”

Epilogue

LILY SAT anxiously in her seat as the airplane taxied into the terminal. She was just coming back from a two-week backpacking trip guiding a private party through the Cascades. It’d been a wonderful, successful trek, her fourth since she’d begun working for Keith again, but all she could think about was getting back to Jared.

She’d missed him.

There would be no more trips for a while now, because she was going to be extremely busy for the next few months.

A wedding did that to a person.

She couldn’t wait. Grinning, she went into her backpack for some lip balm, and found the U.S. Weekly Review with the “Adrenaline Rush” article. She looked at the dog-eared page she’d read so long ago in her physical therapist’s office, the article that had changed her life. She fingered the Post-it note, and smiling, set the entire magazine down on the empty seat next to her. “Time to pass on the good luck, and change someone else’s destiny.”

With that, she stood and exited the plane, and walked right into Jared’s waiting arms.

Jill Shalvis