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I didn't know you were coming. It was the understatement of the century and he laughed at her, unashamed of his own tears.

There's a lot you didn't tell me, I'd say, Crystal Wyatt.

You didn't ask She smiled through her own tears as he kissed her.

I'll have to remember that next time. Zeb squirmed away then, embarrassed by them, and went running through the vineyards, as she had as a child, and their other children would one day. Spencer took her hand and they walked slowly back to the ranch house as they talked, and the boy watched. And Spencer looked down at her quietly when they reached the steps, and then up into the sky again. It was a sunny winter day ' but he could have sworn that in the distance he heard thunder and saw lightning, as he kissed her, and the three of them went inside. Home at last. Together.

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Copyright -! 1989 by Danielle Steel

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