“I LOVE YOU. I love your bridesmaids, Meg and Brandy, and your parents, and my parents, and your crazy brother, and my sisters, and the minister and the pilot on this plane. I love everybody in the world.” Andre leaned over and kissed her. “But you’re the only one I want to fool around with. Tell me, do you like fooling around?”
“Under the right conditions.” Lena smiled. “But I think somebody had way too much champagne at the reception. I’ll bet you couldn’t fool around if you wanted to.”
“Wanna bet?” He wiggled his eyebrows at her. “Mile-high club, here we come. Meet you in the back.”
She started laughing as she pictured trying to maneuver with her tipsy husband in the airplane bathroom. “Just let me give you my seriously considered, well-thought-out answer. No.”
“I’ll bet by the time we get to Hawaii, I’ll have used my excellent skills of persuasion to convince you to do it.”
She grinned at him. “You’re good, but you’re not that good.”
“We’ll see.” He picked up her left hand and planted kisses all around the diamond ring he’d placed there four hours ago. “I love you. Did I mention that yet?”
“I think you might have made some reference to it.” Skimming over the clouds, she could easily believe she was in heaven. To think that three months ago she’d been afraid to ask this gorgeous man for a date.
“I hope I’ve made tons of references to it. I don’t want there to be any doubt. I love you.”
She reached over and stroked his cheek with her free hand. “And I love you. More every second.”
“Do you love me enough to join the mile-high club?” He gave her a sly smile.
“That’s not about love. That’s about all the glasses of champagne you consumed. We wouldn’t fit in that bathroom, Andre. I think our first married sex should be more dignified than that.”
“I don’t. Our first sex ever was in the back seat of a car, with you—”
She clapped a hand over his mouth. “Shh.”
He licked her palm, making slow circles that sent delicious sensations up her arm.
“Stop that.”
He gave her one last swipe with his tongue and turned to her. “Am I getting to you?”
“No,” she lied.
“Yes, I am. I can tell. C’mon. Meet me in the back.”
“No.” Every time she looked at him, she grinned like a fool. Nobody deserved to be this happy, but she wasn’t about to question her good luck. They worked beautifully together at Thunderbird Savings, but it was the hours she spent at home in his arms that made her world such a beautiful place.
“We should be members of the mile-high club.”
She gazed at him and sighed. “You are one persistent guy.”
“And you love that about me.”
“Mostly.”
“We should start our baby there.”
“No, we should not. We should start our baby lying on three-hundred-thread-count sheets on a king-size bed in a room overlooking the ocean.”
“I think an airplane bathroom is way more interesting. C’mon. Let’s do it.”
She did her best to glare at him, but she broke into laughter halfway through the glare. “Are you going to keep this up for the entire flight?”
“Uh-huh. So we might as well do it and get it over with.” He unfastened his seat belt. “I’ll go first. Right side of the plane. Tap on the door and I’ll let you in.”
“Someone will see us.”
He skewered her with a look, and suddenly he didn’t seem quite as tipsy as before. “Don’t tell me that one of the April Fools is worried about being embarrassed.”
She groaned. “Are you going to use that line every time you want me to do something stupid?”
“Yep. After all, doing something stupid brought us together, so why stop now?”
She met the challenge in his eyes. Maybe he was right. “Okay. I’ll probably regret this, but okay.”
As it turned out, she didn’t regret it as much as she’d expected to. And that’s how she ended up getting pregnant in an airplane bathroom. Nine months later she presented Andre with a dark-haired baby girl on April Fool’s Day.
Among other baby presents, Meg and Brandy presented little Delta with an engraved invitation to join the April Fools on her sixteenth birthday. Considering that without the April Fools Lena wouldn’t have the man of her dreams or a sweet baby girl, she couldn’t think of a better gift.