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"What are you doing?"Nick inquired as Kim sat at the table with wedding invitations strung everywhere two evenings before Christmas.
"Let's see. We're getting married in three months and these have to be out before Christmas and
"Stop,"as his fingers started working into her shoulders.
She stopped working on the invitations and let his fingers do their work. Total heaven.
"Did anybody ever tell you that you have magic hands?"
"You like that."
"Very much."
"Nice earrings."
"Sherl gave me those for Christmas,"explaining the little gold hoops in her ears.
"So what'd you give her?"
"A basket full of bath goodies."
"Is that such a fair trade?"
"Trust me. She loved it. Oh God take me now."
"Is that an offer?"he continued molding the tightened flesh.
"You wish."
"So how was your day?"
"You mean other than the three hundred thousand things I have to do to get this little party thrown together?"
"You make it sound like a chore."
"When you're not helping me it is. Anyway, what were you doing all day long? Other than playing with the boys that is."
"Funny."
"What did I do today?"He kept kneading her shoulder muscles specifically on her left shoulder.
"Oww!"She turned grabbing his hand."What brought that on?" Before he could return her inquiry, her eyes landed on the gold object wrapped around his finger.
He knelt down next to the chair.
"Is there another one of those?"
"You mean I was supposed to get you one too?"he taunted.
"Not funny,"she slapped him on the shoulder.
"Let's see,"he searched every pocket in his outfit until he came across the missing link."Here we go."
Kim opened the box."This is more beautiful than when we picked them out."
"You haven't seen all of it yet."
"What?"
"I had an inscription done on yours."
She pulled the ring out and looked on the inside. Squinting, she made out,"3/17/03 yours forever, Nicky."She placed it back into the box and set it on the table. She couldn't contain the joyful tears spilling from her eyes.
"Something wrong baby?"
"Nothing could be more perfect,"she blurted out underneath the fog of tears.
His thumbed swiped across her cheek." I didn't mean to get you all upset and everything."
"You didn't,"she cupped his cheek with her hand.
"I wanna go put these away where they're safe but I wanna know you're okay before I do an
"And don't worry. I'm fine,"She softly kissed his lips before he left.