With Forgiveness...Comes Happiness

Chapter Seventeen

Can promised he would tell her everything on the way back to Chania on the ferry, but first things first, as they met with the only attorney on the island to get the paperwork started. Sanem watched him as they discussed the sale and Can made his offer, which by the way, was ridiculously low but accepted. The seller had been eager to sell and there hadn't been much interest from anyone to buy a whole island. He was beaming, and she smiled with her thoughts of relocating to this beautiful place. Her phone rang and she could see it was Luca, " Hello Luca." Her friend had been waiting for her phone call, " Sanem where are you and Can, did you miss the ferry." She stepped outside to talk, " Luca you are not going to believe it, Can found a flyer about an island that was for sell, so we went and looked at it, and.....we bought it." She screeched with excitement. "YOU WHAT, you bought an island." 

They barely caught the last ferry of the day, as they rushed from the attorneys office to the pier. Can had a permanent smiled spread across his face and Sanem was filled with a happiness that she couldn't express. As promised, Can explained in detail all the trouble that the contract with the cosmetic company had become, and there wasn't a way out. Polen had sealed the fate of that deal, with her lies and deceit. Sanem was upset as he knew she would be, but realizing this was their way out, their way to cut those ties to Polen and to his past. She sat quietly after he gave her all the disturbing details of the plan to destroy Can and Sanem. " Was that all, is there anything else she had orchestrated to harm us. Did her father say if she was getting better or not." She asked, wanting this all to be over. Can shrugged his shoulders, " I don't know for sure, I hope it is, that's why I resigned from the agency, so at least they wouldn't see the backlash if there was something. Which was fine with me." He whispered, leaning in close to her, breathing in her aroma as he kissed her neck. She smiled, " So you think if we move to our own island, hundreds of miles away she can't bother us anymore. Am I right." Can replied, " Maybe, but actually I just want to live all alone on our own island. It's going to be great, don't you think." 

Luca and Thea couldn't have been happier, just the thought of their friends moving here made them excited. " So is the house ready to move in, or will it need work. And what about a boat to get back and forth to the main island." Luca inquired. Can agreed  "Well the house needs a bit of fixing, but nothing major. The main thing is the land, it need to be cleaned up and the pier needs some work." He told him. "Well, you can count on me to help, when do you think you two will be back to finalize the deal." According to the attorney, the process wouldn't take long, since the seller had given his attorney the legal rights to the sell, so there wouldn't be any sending of papers back and forth. Sanem was still in a daze about it all, trying to imagine what there lives would be like in a year from now. Can found them a room for the night at a small resort not far from the beach. She remembered how beautiful and moon and the stars had been when she lives there before, and nothing had changed, as they walked down to the beach from there room. " Just think Sanem, we will be able to see these stars from our own island within a month, and the water will be at our fingertips. She snuggled in close to his body, " I hope this is everything you want it to be my beautiful husband, and I hope that you don't regret quitting your job to be free of Polen." 

Her words made him sad, " I didn't quit the agency to be free of Polen, I quit so we could live the life we wanted, you do want this don't you?" He asked, turning her around to look in her eyes. Her answer was firm and definite, " Yes, I want what you want, I want to be where you are, we need to do this. So, yes I want this, more than you know." He smiled, "Good, because I don't want you leaving to go to the main island for food one day and never coming back." He laid her back on the sand, feeling her body relax and welcome him there. Their kiss was long and passionate, signaling them to make their way back to the room. Stripped of their clothing in minutes and ready to take on the delight of their bodies as they moved together, charging up that desire that was always there. She begged for more as his touch made her thrust about, sending her body and heart to that place of no return. She whispered his name as she arched her back, pulling him to her and welcoming him as he entered that place that always brought her alive. This  trip had been the best of his life and he wanted it to continue right here on their island. 

The next morning Luca drove them to the airport for their 11:20 flight home. She was still wondering how her parents were going to take the news. Getting married and moving to her own home was one thing, and she thought they had handled that very well, but to move so far away to an island, well they would just have to understand. On the drive home from the airport, Sanem could see the tension on Can's face, " Babe, you're still worried about something, I wish you would tell me what it is. We promised not to keep things from each other, don't you remember." His eyes were clouded as he looked at her, " My love, I am going to have to go see Polen before we leave here, I need to find out if there's anything else that she had already set in motion to destroy us." Sanem had already thought about it and knew that was the only way. She took his hand, " I know, you have to forgive her Can, we both have to forgive her if we are going to have the happiness that we both want and deserve." His heart was full of love for this woman, he wondered how he got so lucky. Most women wouldn't have stayed around for all that she endured, for all the humiliation and hatred that she faced, and she still wanted to forgive her. 

They both agreed to tell everyone at the same time, so when they arrived home that afternoon they called her parents and invited them to dinner, " Momma, we just arrived home and I'm anxious to see you, can you and Dad come for dinner." Her mother accepted but she knew by the tone of her daughters voice there would be more to this dinner than just "dinner." Can called his Dad and asked him to come home with Emre and Leila for a special dinner, and he accepted as well. He rushed to have a few of the  pictures that they had taken on his phone of their new home printed and framed to decorate the table. 

As they waited for their family, the excitement of what their life was about to become had finally set in.....

They would finally be happy......