So, before Letty knew what she was about, her grandson had bundled her into the chopper. The dogs were tossed up after. The doors were clanged shut and the chopper rose into the night sky.
But not very far. William might have intended that Steve take them far away. Steve had other ideas.
The chopper simply hovered. Its downlight nailed them.
‘You were saying?’ Meg yelled at the top of her lungs, laughing, and William thought he was never, ever going to be able to do this better than he could right now. He was standing in the middle of a hay paddock. A helicopter was practically blasting him to bits with its down-draught. The moon was high in the night sky, and over at the house Santa’s legs moved steadily back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
‘Happy Christmas,’ he shouted, and he tried again for the third time. Third time lucky? ‘Will you marry me?’
‘What?’ The sound of the chopper was deafening.
‘With this ring, I thee wed?’ he shouted back and he placed the tag on her finger and he scooped her up and lifted her high into his arms, holding her hard against his heart. And finally he kissed her as he needed to kiss her, as she needed to be kissed, as he intended to kiss her for the rest of her life.
‘I’ll give you diamonds,’ he yelled when they could finally bear to pull apart.
‘Who needs diamonds?’ Meg said lovingly. He could barely hear her words but he knew what her lips were saying. It was what his heart was saying.
‘Merry Christmas, my love,’ she told him. ‘Diamonds or not, I just need you.’
Marion Lennox
Marion Lennox is a country girl, born on an Australian dairy farm. She moved on-mostly because the cows just weren’t interested in her stories! Married to a “very special doctor,” Marion writes medical romances as well as Harlequin Romance novels. (She used a different name for each category for a while-if you’re looking for her past Harlequin Romance books search for author Trisha David, as well.) She’s now had more than seventy-five romance novels accepted for publication.
In her nonwriting life Marion cares for kids, cats, dogs, chooks and goldfish. She travels, and she fights her rampant garden (she’s losing) and her house dust (she’s lost).
Having spun in circles for the first part of her life, she’s now stepped back from her “other” career, which was teaching statistics at her local university. Finally she’s reprioritized her life, figured what’s important and discovered the joys of deep baths, romance and chocolate.
Preferably all at the same time!
