"Stop thinking about these things from now on. I don't care whether it was your first time or not." Kris Cooper gently ruffled her hair. "Vera, all I want is for you to love me wholeheartedly, to belong only to me in the future. Can you do it?"
"Hmm!" She immediately nodded.
"That's all that matters!" He smiled and held her tightly again. "Let's not bring up the past again. Let's focus on the future!"
Full of emotion, Vera clung to his neck tightly. "Okay, I've forgotten the past too, but I promise you, from now on, my body and heart will only belong to my husband!"
"So will I." He took a deep breath. "From now on, Kris Cooper will only belong to Vera."
Before it was, now it is, in the future it will be!
Holding her, he gently stroked her smooth back. There was no desire, only tenderness.
She was so tired from everything that happened that day and into the night that she quickly fell asleep under his touch, the corners of her lips still raised in a smile.
