“Oh, goodness. I was not going for wow. I was hoping for happily married.”
It wasn’t often that Deirdre talked about their marriage or their relationship. He knew she was still adjusting to this new life, so when she did, it sparked something warm in him. He pulled her close and asked, “Are you?”
“Am I what?”
He didn’t think he imagined that she sounded a little breathless. “Happily married.”
“For the most part, my life is quite good,” she answered with a cocky tilt of an eyebrow.
“For the most part?”
“There’s no denying I miss having a job and contributing something. Living with your entire family wasn’t how I’d ever imagined the beginning of my married life.”
“Whew. I thought for a minute there that you were going to say I wasn’t meeting your demands in the bedroom.”
She laughed
