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That Night - Master Bedroom
After the guests had left and Pascal had been tucked into bed and Georgia had finally surrendered to sleep after protesting the day's disruptions to her schedule, Nikolai and Tiana collapsed onto their bed still wearing their wedding clothes.
"We did it," Tiana said, staring at the ceiling. "We actually did it."
"Got married? Yeah, we did that nine years ago too," Nikolai teased, then yelped as she swatted his chest.
"You know what I mean. We made it. Through everything, through Eva's manipulation and Indy's lies and the shooting and the trial and all of it. We made it to the other side."
Nikolai turned on his side to face her, propping himself up on one elbow. "We did. Against pretty significant odds."
"Do you ever think about what would have happened if…" Tiana paused, choosing her words carefully. "If I hadn't had the accident? If I hadn't gotten pregnant with Georgia? If Indy hadn't shot you? Would we have found our way back to each other without all that trauma forcing us to confront everything?"
Nikolai was quiet for a long moment, considering. "I don't know," he admitted honestly. "I like to think we would have eventually, but the truth is, I was really good at avoiding hard truths. I might have kept coasting, kept letting Eva manipulate things, kept choosing the easy path over the right one."
He reached out and took her hand, playing with the wedding band on her finger.
"The accident, the pregnancy, the shooting…they were all terrible," he continued. "I would never wish any of that on you. But they also stripped away all the pretense, all the avoidance, all the carefully constructed lies we'd been telling ourselves. They forced us to be honest in a way we'd never been honest before."
"Trauma as catalyst," Tiana mused. "Not exactly the romance novel version of finding your way back to your soulmate."
"No," Nikolai agreed. "But maybe more honest because of it. We didn't fall back in love during some romantic getaway or through couples therapy or any of the sanitized ways people like to imagine reconciliation happening. We fell back in love while you were in a wheelchair and I was recovering from gunshot wounds and our lives were completely falling apart."
He leaned down and kissed her gently.
"We built something real from the ugliest circumstances imaginable," he said. "That's not pretty, but it's true. And I'll take truth over pretty any day."
Tiana pulled him closer, deepening the kiss. "I love you," she said against his lips. "My husband. For real this time."
"I love you," Nikolai replied. "My wife. My partner. My home."
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