“I might be until you say something equally hilarious.”

“I love to listen to you laugh, especially when I make it happen.”

“Which is all the time. You have no idea how funny you are.”

“I’m funny because I like to make you laugh. I’ve never been funny before you.”

“I find that very hard to believe.”

“’Tis true. My life was hardly anything much to laugh about until I found you. Losing my brothers the way I did… There was a lot of sadness. You make me want to laugh again, Caro.”

Touched to hear him speak of losses he rarely mentioned, she combed her fingers through his thick auburn hair, hoping to provide comfort. “We’ve both had more than our share of sadness.”

“Indeed, which is why we’re now due a lifetime’s worth of happiness.”

“I’m down for that.”

He kissed a path from her throat to her chest and belly. “You know what I’m down for?”

“I’m starting to get an idea.”

The deep rumble of his laughter made her skin tingle with goose bumps. She had learned over the last year not to fight him when he set out to overwhelm her senses, which was exactly what he was doing right now. As he made love to her with his mouth and tongue, Carolina tried to remember who she’d been before this sexy, charming, larger-than-life Irishman came bombing into her life and turned her entire world upside down.

“I want to do this every single day of our lives,” he said as he kissed her inner thigh and pushed his fingers into her. “It’s my favorite thing to do in the whole world.”

“Is it better than when I do that to you?”

“Well, now… It might be tied for first place with that.”

“Thought you might say that.”

How was it possible that he amused her even when he was doing that to her? “Seamus…”

“Yes, love?”

“Let’s change places.”

“Not tonight. I’d never last. I want to make love to my wife, and it’s been a very, very long day. I bet the person who decided there ought to be a huge party after the wedding wasn’t a guy.” This was said as he thrust his fingers into her again and made her gasp from the pleasure that shot through her.

“Please. Come up here. I need you.”

Those words always worked with him, and tonight was no different. Keeping his fingers tucked deep inside her, he used his other arm to move up the bed so he was lying next to her. “What do you need?”

She laid her hand on his face. “You.”