EPILOGUE - HOPE

**FOUR YEARS LATER**

I don’t know how time flew by so quickly.

Everything Cal promised me has come true. We have bickered, disagreed, and walked down the beach in a huff.

Mainly me each time, knowing he would be sat on the porch waiting for me with an amused smile. That lopsided grin that makes my stomach flip. We never stopped fighting for each other. Not for a second. It's been everything and more.

That first morning, dozing in the hammock together, I woke up with a start.

Realising the time, how late I was for retrieving poor Button made me scramble and swing so violently he crashed to the floor all over again.

“You know I might ban you from my lovely hammock,” he groaned.

I just laughed and pulled him up, pretending to rub his muscular shoulders, back, chest better until he growled and finally bent me over that porch.

It was perfect.

Of course, Button was absolutely fine with Declan and Lyra. They were already playing on the beach with her, Declan, having his toes burie