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They were almost to the airport when he said, “I wonder if my mother is still alive.”

She’d been missing over twenty-five years. The chances of her being alive were almost nonexistent. Still… “I can help you find her, if you want.”

“Maybe. I’ll think about it.”

“Do you have any idea who your father is?”

“Nope,” Eric said, pulling into a long-term parking area.

They planned to leave the Volkswagen here and have someone ship it back to California. But now they had a plane to catch. There wasn’t time to make more concrete arrangements.

“And promise me you won’t go looking for him.”

“There’s a spot,” Rebekah said, pointing to a vacant parking place. She wasn’t going to promise she’d never try to find his father. There had to be at least one awesome person in Eric’s lineage to account for her husband’s perfection. It obviously hadn’t come from his mother’s side of the family.

Chapter Eleven

Eric flapped his boarding pass against his thigh as he sat beside Rebekah in the terminal. They’d been waiting to board a plane to Pape’ete by way of Los Angeles for what seemed like an eon. He couldn’t wait to soak up some sun and sip a strong drink on the beach. Actually, he could wait. The more he thought about lounging in a tropical paradise, the less it sounded like fun. What he and Rebekah had shared over the past week? That had been fun. He hated to admit that his wife was always right so early in their marriage, but he couldn’t fight the truth when she was sitting beside him studying her fingernails.

Eric broke the silence between them by asking, “Do you think we can get the VW to go another few thousand miles?” They hadn’t spoken much since they’d left their little honeymoon van in long-term parking.

Rebekah went still and then her lovely face lifted. “Why?”

He shrugged as if the thought of another week of adventure with his new wife wasn’t making his heart race with excitement. “Our flight to Tahiti actually leaves from Los Angeles.”

“So?”

“There’s a lot of this country left to explore between here and home.”

“In December? I thought you were afraid you’d freeze your ass off.”

He grinned. “You haven’t let me down yet.”

He thought she’d laugh at his little joke, but she didn’t. She took both his hands in hers and stared deeply into his eyes. “I won’t,” she promised. “I won’t ever let you down.”

Not like those assholes who share your DNA
was left unspoken, but he read the words in her fierce expression.

He kissed her, believing in her, in them, and then tugged her to her feet and led her from the terminal. The luggage they’d checked was full of shorts and swimsuits, so they wouldn’t need it. Their winter gear was still in the van.

“Well, we
almost
made it to paradise,” she said as he found the parking shuttle that would take them to their own little mobile paradise.

He looked down at her smiling face and his heart swelled in his chest. “I don’t know,” he said and drew her against him. “I think I made it. How about you?”

Tears swam in her eyes as she nodded.

Sometimes
, Eric thought as he passionately kissed the embodiment of his heart and soul,
paradise isn’t a place, it’s a person. She really is my everything. My Rebekah.

WHAT’S NEXT

The next Sinners in Paradise novella will be about Sed and Jessica’s honeymoon. Surely it will go better than their wedding in
Sinners at the Altar
. In the meantime, I’ll be releasing the second Exodus End book, entitled
Outsider
. When? Very soon. More One Night with Sole Regret books are in the works too!

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Combining her love for romantic fiction and rock 'n roll, Olivia Cunning writes erotic romance centered around rock musicians. Raised on hard rock music from the cradle, she attended her first Styx concert at age six and fell instantly in love with live music. She's been known to travel over a thousand miles just to see a favorite band in concert. As a teen, she discovered her second love, romantic fiction—first, voraciously reading steamy romance novels and then penning her own. She currently resides in Illinois.

 

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