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me?"
    Alice looked up and was relieved to see Amy had grown bored with their antics. "You know I can't swim."
    "Who said anything about swimming?" he said.
    "Boys." Alice sat up and shook her head.  Trying to make herself comfortable, she found herself quickly thrown over and pinned to the sand.
    "Girls." John smiled and kissed her. "Now you've fallen into my trap. Think you can escape?"
    Not even trying to do so, Alice wrapped her hands around the back of his neck and pulled him to her. Taking him in a long and passionate kiss, she held his head there and wouldn't let him straighten himself. "Think you can escape?"
    "I don't want to…"
    "Me neither," Alice said and pulled her to him once more. Feeling his chest lay on hers, she ran her fingers through his hair and pulled him close to her. Losing herself in a longer and more passionate kiss, she felt her body yearn to be with his. Pushing him away she looked at him to see if he felt the same way. "Cold water?"
    John nodded and copied her. “Cold water.”
     
    Watching him get to his feet, Alice found a hand offered to her and pulled upright. Holding her in an embrace, John looked into her eyes. "For a while, I thought I'd never know what it was to fall in love again. I'd always thought that you only find love once in this lifetime." Taking his hand, Alice felt him pin back a piece of her loose hair before putting his hand on her cheek. "But you, you've shown me how wrong I was. It scares me a little, but I don't think my life would be the same without you."
    Alice felt a tear break free and run down her face. "I love you."
    "I love you too. I swear I'm going to try everything I can to get this divorce thing sorted-" John said, before Alice placed a finger to his lips.
    "I can wait. Do you honestly think I couldn't wait?"
    "Well no, but I'd like us to be married before Amy is," John joked. "I don't think even you could wait that long."
    Feeling a tone of frustration in his voice, Alice took his hand and led him along the beach. "Let's not think about that for now. This week with you and Amy has been one of the happiest of my life, let's not spoil that."
    "You're right. It has been for me too. I'm glad we came away like this, just the three of us. Amy's had a great time having us both here to spoil her."
    "I'm glad, it can't have been easy for her. Her mum gone, and you away a lot."
    "Thankfully she was too young to really notice. It's now that I can see how she's paying attention to things—you know she asked me something the other night?"
    "About what?"
    "About you," John said. "She said, she didn't know what to call you. She knows we're getting married and all, but I think she's having trouble calling you Alice. And then with her mum's gone she's struggling to find the right name."
    Alice watched the child at play and felt her heart go out to her.
    "But she settled on one."
    "She did?"
    "We got to talking, and I said that you brought happiness to both of us. Kinda like magic the way you cheered us both up. I suppose that's where she got the idea from-"
    "For what?"
    "She's started calling you, Fairy Mom," John said.
    Alice felt her eyes flood with tears and wiped them away. Feeling like running up the beach and holding her in an embrace she'd never escape from, John leaned over and kissed her on the cheek.
    "That's what you are to both of us. The woman that brought happiness back into our home." 
     

Chapter 15
    Standing beside the door, Tom heard the doorknob turn and a man curse on the other side. Pulling his gun free, Tom listened to the drunken muttering that went on before he heard metal coming into contact with metal. Hearing the key being turned in the keyhole, he braced himself for action and held the muzzle of his gun at the height he presumed the man's head would be. Waiting for the door to open Tom allowed the man to enter before slamming the door behind him. Putting the gun to his head, Tom watched him freeze.
    "Walter, I presume," Tom said. Expecting to