Something Old by Rebecca Connolly (autobiographies to read txt) 📕

her close, both arms wrapping around her as he touched his brow to hers. “I’m complimenting you, Lily. There is a very great difference. I adore you. I worship you. I love you. And if I want to praise you as a demonstration of those things, I’ll continue to do so. Someday, probably in the distant future, you’ll finally be accustomed to this, and you will no longer blush. I’ll miss that, but at least you will finally know that my praises were not in vain for me no matter how they might seem so for you.”

Lily cradled the back of her husband’s head, momentarily beyond words. “I love you,” she whispered. “So very much.”

“I know you do,” he replied, his voice dipping low, “and it means everything to me.”

Raising up on her toes, Lily kissed him again, heart soaring just as much as it had the first time she kissed him. As it always did when she kissed him. As she hoped it always would.

She’d never dreamed she could be this happy, this content, this lost in the delight that was her life. In the love in her life and this man, the love of her life.

So perfectly, impossibly, brilliantly content.

Just then, across the room, over the giggles and shrieks of little girls, somehow, a certain baby boy laughed his very first laugh.

About the Author

Rebecca Connolly has been creating stories since she was young, and there are home videos to prove it. She started writing them down in elementary school and has never looked back. She lives in Ohio, spends every spare moment away from her day job absorbed in her writing, and is a hot cocoa junkie.

COMING SOON

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Book Two

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REBECCA CONNOLLY