‘You’re looking wonderful,’ he finally said gruffly.
‘So are you,’ she returned softly, dismissing the beauty of the black and gold dress she had chosen with such care for just this meeting. ‘You brought your parents with you.’ She stated the obvious for something to say, suddenly shy with him.
‘Yes,’ he acknowledged, not even bothering to glance across the room in their direction, completely confident in Sophy’s ability to take care of them. ‘I thought it best if they came over with me.’
‘Oh,’ she answered non-committally.
‘I got your invitation,’ he told her, his eyes narrowed.
‘Yes,’ she agreed, the tension building between them.
Oh, God, let him still love her, she prayed. Because one thing the last months had shown her, she loved Adam more than anything else on earth, and wanted to spend the rest of her life with him if he would have her.
‘A Christmas wedding might be nice, don’t you think?’ he remarked conversationally, just as if he were discussing the weather!
Eve felt the gladness in her heart, felt it burst and explode into bright, shattering light. It was going to be all right, after all. Adam still loved her and wanted her!
‘I don’t know if I can wait that long,’ she admitted shakily, swaying towards him. ‘I’ve missed you so much.’
His eyes glowed like warm honey. ‘I didn’t say we had to wait until then, only that it seemed a good time to get married. Oh, I love you, Eve,’ he added with a groan.
‘And I love you,’ she replied with certainty.
He smiled warmly, his gaze holding hers as he reached in to his jacket pocket. ‘Your invitation.’ He handed her car keys back to her. ‘And mine.’ He held out his own car keys for her to take into her keeping.
They had to be the strangest exchange of love-gifts ever made, but Eve had sent him the car keys knowing he would understand their message, that he would realise she wasn’t surrendering herself as a person, only her heart and soul into his keeping. As he had just entrusted himself to her.
‘I can hardly wait to begin,’ she accepted his invitation, holding the car keys as if they were more precious than any jewel, as indeed they were.
And there, in the midst of the crowded room, The Unicorn ceased to be elusive as she gave her love into Adam’s keeping for all time, the two of them not caring that they had an audience as they moved into each other’s arms, their lips meeting in eternal love.
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