The Greek's Marriage Bargain ✔️ (Completed)

Epilogue

Hi guys! This is the last chapter😍😍😍 and I guess it's time to let them go😩😩😩..

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The sunlight felt warm on his eyelids and her thigh felt cool against his. Lazily, Dimitris stretched his arms above his head and yawned.
    "So you're aware at last."

    Natalia's soft words filtered through the air towards him, like the breeze which floated in from the park outside. The uncharacteristic hot, English summer they'd been having meant that most nights they slept with the windows wide open. Sometimes Dimitris even woke up imagining he was back in Greece!

    He opened his eyes to find Natalia leaning over him and her long hair tickled his chest as she reached over to retrieve her glasses.

    "Actually, I've been awake for a while," he murmured sliding his hand around her waist and pulling her close, so that he could breathe in her particular scent of violets and vanilla. "Enjoying this rare lie-in and just counting up all my blessings."

    "Oh?" Natalia snuggled closer. "And what blessings might they be?"

    "You know perfectly well what they are," he teased. "Because you're my perfect wife who gives me a perfect life."

    She touched her fingertips to his jaw and began to stroke reflectively at the dark, new growth there. "I'm not perfect, Dimitris."

    "Yes, you are. Perfect for me."

    Natalia hugged him very tightly as she kissed his bare chest, brushing her lips over the whorls of dark hair there and letting her tongue trace tiny patterns over the hard, salty flesh. Sometimes this all felt so good that she almost had to pinch herself to believe it was happening. But it was. And Dimitris had been right all along. Two people who loved one another could live a contented and fulfilled life without children. Her inability to carry a child had not damaged their relationship. On the contrary, the heartache they had suffered had ended up bringing them closer together.

    And then something had happened which had changed their lives completely, in a way they could never have foreseen. Natalia had been watching a TV programme about the shortage of foster parents and had been deeply affected by the plight of some of the children featured. It hadn't taken much for her to persuade Dimitris to donate a significant amount of money to The Children's Society, nor for her to become involved on a volunteer basis. But neither of them expected to be so enchanted by a nine-month-old baby who'd been orphaned in a car crash, nor for their offer of a temporary home to be transformed into the opportunity to adopt her permanently.

    There was, as Dimitris said afterwards really no decision to make, for by that time they had fallen hopelessly in love with the little girl and she with them. They named her Maria after his beloved grandmother.

    Now almost four, Maria was almost exactly the same age as third niece, Althaia, and the reason for the rare lie in was because Dimitris' sister had brought her family over for a week's holiday. Myra and Oscar had taken Maria and her cousin for a walk in The park and afterwards they were having a trip to the famous zoo.

    "Which leaves me all morning to make slow and delicious love to you," Dimitris murmured.

    He drifted his mouth over her breast and she bit her lip in delight response. Skin touched skin. Gasps punctured the air. Natalia lifted her hips to meet him, a shaft of intense pleasure coursing through her as he filled her completely.

    Afterwards she kissed him, long and lazy kisses. "What did I ever do to deserve you?" she said, her words muffled by the pressure of his lips.

    "That's my question." His voice was sleepy. "And you already know the answer. Don't analyse. Just be grateful."

    And she was. Oh, she was.

    Despite the joys and commitment of motherhood, she had continued to make her quirky jewellery on part-time basis and soon it began to feature in magazines. Before long she was having to take on two workers to help craft Jane Jewels. Anyone who was anyone had a pair of her dangly earrings, or one of her distinctively chunky bangles. Her client base included three members of the English royal family, as well as most of Hollywood. But Natalia never forget the people of Devon who'd been so kind when she'd been starting out and every yearshe travelled down to sell her jewellery at the village's Christmas fayre.

    Jadon married his Greek girlfriend and Dimitris went on to appoint him CEO of the Valerianos wine industry  within a year, Natalia's other brother, Paul, flew from Australia to join the company, which meant that Natalia could see much more of them. Both brothers became fluent in Greek and after much nagging, persuaded Natalia to take lessons. She didn't find it easy but she was determined -- and she loved the look of shock on her husband's face the first tim she answered him fluently in his mother tongue.

    After much persuasion on Dimitris' part -- because he seemed to be determined to make a statement to the world -- Natalia agreed toa renewal of their wedding vows, in a ceremony which took place in the beautiful Greek cathedral in London. Afterwards they held a huge party in the ballroom of Grandchester Hotel. Security was tight and the place was mobbed because Hannah and JoJo -- the other two Pinkies -- were on the guest list. It was unexpectedly moving to see her ex-bandmates again and there had been quite a few tears when all three women had taken part in a group hug while 'Come Right Back' played over the sound system.

    Dimitris had bought her a new wedding ring for the occasion,though -- as Natalia had pointed out -- she was probably the only woman in the world who owned three wedding rings, all given to her by the same man.

    "Ah, but this time it's different, moli mou," he had murmured. "This time it's for ever."

    Their favorite photo was not of that day, nor indeed any of those taken on their original wedding day. It was an image captured the night when Natalia had flown to Hollywood to tell Dimitris how much she loved him and he'd taken her downtown, to a fancy reception to mark is Award-winning film.

    There was Dimitris, tall and magnificent in an immaculate tuxedo, with Natalia beside him in jeans and a T-shirt still crumpled from her long, transatlantic flight.

    But you didn't really notice the discrepancy in what they were wearing, or the fact that Natalia's hair looked as if it could have done with a good brushing. All you saw was the light which shone from their eyes, which even the most cynical observers had remarked was brighter than all the flashes from the assembled cameras.

    That light was the light of love. . . . .

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A/N: 😭😭😭 I'm having two major feels right now. Happy and sad; happy that their love was happily ever after and sad that their story has come to an end!!

I've never really connected with any characters that I've brought to life than these two love birds😁😁😁. To me their love is so real that you'd think it's a real story not even a novel... Well I do t wanna pour out my heart but I hope you guys love this book like I do🤗🤗🤗

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