My stepdad's fantasy
Then quieter:
“And if we ever decide to add to the family… we’ll tell them the truth when they’re old enough. That their mother and father chose each other against the whole damn world. That the fantasy became real.”
I turned my head.
Kissed him slow and deep.
“Deal, Daddy.”
He groaned half laugh, half fresh hunger.
We started moving again slow rolls, firelight sliding over our skin like liquid gold.
Outside, the Douro kept its secrets.
Inside, we kept ours.
The old names,
The old heat,
The new life,
All of it
Forever.
And the game?
The game was never going to end.
It would only get filthier.
Deeper.