He broke the kiss, cupped her face, and stared into her eyes. “How are you?”

“A little dizzy after that kiss. And fantastic now that I’m home with you.”

He pressed his forehead to hers. “This place isn’t the same without you.”

Her heart melted. “Thank you again for my flowers. They’re beautiful.”

“Sorry you only got to enjoy them for a day.” Luke dropped his hands and took hers in his.

“Well, I gave a lot of them away to the ladies in the office, but I brought several bouquets home with me. I had the driver put them up on the porch.”

“Really?”

“You gave them to me. I want to enjoy them as long as possible.”

He held her gaze, his direct and hopeful. “And did you get everything done you needed to at the office?”

“You’ll be happy to know that of the ten interviews I did, I made six offers to programmers.”

His eyes went wide. “Wow. That’s great.”

“I also completed three more projects, shrinking my workload some.”

“I love the sound of that.”

“Since the Knox Project is done, except for the implementation, I also reassigned two other projects to be completed by the programmers who’d been helping with that.”

“Look at you delegating instead of taking everything on yourself.” Luke squeezed her hands, letting her know he approved and appreciated her effort to lessen her load so she could have more time for him and herself. “Sounds like you got a lot done. Which means you probably didn’t sleep much.”

“Not really. Something seemed to be missing from my bed.”

“Someone, you mean.”

She kissed him. “You.”

“That’s because you were in the wrong bed. You belong here. With me.”

“I’m working on it,” she assured him.

Luke brushed his thumbs over the backs of her hands. “I see that. And I hope we can start making real plans to move you and the kids here.”

“I was just talking to Abby about that and how this trip is coming to an end.”

Luke’s brow went up. “Not an end. It’s a transition to our life together.”

She smiled. “That actually makes me feel a lot better.”

“How so?”

“I guess I feel like everything is supposed to happen at once, but if, like you said, this is a transition, that allows room for us to take the time we need to transform our lives and meld them into one life we live together.”

“We’ll start today with telling the boys about Jamie. Then we’ll start talking about what will work best for your work schedule, the boys going to school, and where we’ll live and how we’ll go back and forth between here and your place, if that’s what it takes.”

“I love that you’re open to all the possibilities of that.”

He squeezed her hands. “If I get to spend my life with you, that’s all that matters.”

“But living here, on the ranch, we’d have a pretty great life.” She knew this was where he really wanted to be. And this would be a great life for the boys. And she loved the land and the horses. They really could have it all.