." You really think I'm beautiful?" In every way," I said."And you like me?" More than that..." How..." I ... love you, Bella. You captivated and fasc...nated me the day we met. I don't want to think of my life without you in it."Her face lit up; she put her mug on the table in front of us, took mine and placed it next to hers; reached up and used both hands to draw my head down to hers and kissed me."Then, I don't think the rest matters, Andrew. I love you, and I believe you are the one I've. It was bound for Paris via Munich, among other places."I couldn't decide," Wolfgang shrugged, sliding the compartment door closed behind him. He locked it and pulled the shade, smiling as he handed a package wrapped in silver foil to his sister. The gift had been bound with satin ribbon and a large red bow which made her smile."Heavy," she observed with a questioning look."Suhl Makarov PM nine millimeter," Wolfgang told her. "With a matched factory suppressor and two eight round magazines in a. I could crush her, assure her, or tease her. I chose assurance.What? You think I am going to push away the love of my life over all of this? She had been true to me sexually after all. We were going to have to have some more talks about trust and absolute transparency in our marriage, on both our parts, but I figured we had about another forty or fifty years together to work all that out and I planned on staying with her 'till death do us part.'"Claire, My Love," I said, holding her face gently. " But I still felt myself gaging and she says not to worry most of it already came out on the ride back and tells me she tried to hold it in for me. She is squatting on my face so hard I can barely breath and she asks me if I can hear her? I nod yes, and she says she has something to tell me and she starts telling me how she just went out for a drive but then came a cross a little dive of a bar and went in figuring she could get a bottle of wine there. She begins telling how she just walked.