Finding You Always

One Less Problem

Chapter 178: One Less Problem

Snow released a calming breath, as they spent their short lunch break together outside the Courthouse. It was a warm day and they had sneaked over to a park bench nearby. The press was occupied so far with interviewing Clayton, who was soaking up the limelight they were shining on him. That was just fine, for Snow and David wanted nothing to do with it and were thankful the reporters hadn't noticed them yet. Instead, they focused on each other and spending a few quiet moments together. Snow sat in his lap, resting her head on his shoulder, as they talked softly and occasionally exchanged kisses.

"I hate that you had to relive all those nights that you spent in that cell," he mentioned.

"I know...but it's over now. I just wish it was over for you too. They're going to grill you," she feared.

"I'll be fine, because I'll have the same thing that you had," he replied, as he took her hand and looked up at her.

"I'll have you to look at and you always give me the strength I need to do anything," he responded, as he gently cupped her beautiful face, as she sniffed.

"My darling...what is it?" he asked.

"It's silly," she replied. He smiled and kissed her forehead.

"Your feelings are never silly," he reminded.

"It's just...we don't deserve any of this," she said.

"Of course we don't," he added.

"I just mean...the things they are publishing about us in some of those tabloids..." she lamented.

"Snow...those publications are pure trash," he chided.

"I know...I know...that's what I keep telling myself. But Charming...you didn't read some of the things they are publishing about you. I mean, I always thought men were the only ones that objectified women...but..." she trailed off. He sighed.

"Snow...I don't care what they are saying about me. I'm yours," he said.

"I know that...I know you have never had eyes for another woman, but then I think back to all those nights when I was crying for you and I wondered if you had been cursed to be with someone else," she muttered.

"I wasn't...I was pining for my Margaret, which we both know is really you," he replied.

"Which isn't completely fair to you. If I really was gone...I'd want you to be happy," she confessed.

"And I would find happiness in seeing you through our children. But moving on? Snow...that's not possible for me. The sun and the moon set with you," he confessed.

"I know...it's the same for me," she revealed.

"Then are you really bothered by what they are saying? I know this is a different kind of adversity than we've faced before, but are you really letting some gossip mongers question how much you mean to me?" he asked.

"I know how much you love me...I've never questioned that," she insisted.

"Then what is it?" he asked.

"I just feel like that if you were cursed to be with someone else and I had come back into your life, I would have wrecked it completely," she replied.

"I won't deny that it wouldn't have been a mess, but my darling, you know that I'd always want you. No matter how many cursed memories they managed to put in my head...my heart would never forget you or the way I feel when I'm with you," he said.

"I know...and I would never doubt that, but when I read how they were claiming you got saddled with a mess like me, I wasn't sure I could deny that," she murmured. But he shook his head in vehemence.