After the Wedding by Carol Voss

Author:Carol Voss [Voss, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young bride, young groom, small town, trust, Christian, family relationships, series, leaving home, building a marriage, coming of age, Noah’s Crossing, animals, love, inspirational romance, Inspirational Fiction
Publisher: Carol Voss
Published: 2017-10-03T04:00:00+00:00

With not a parking place in sight, Rick double-parked in front of the huge, old home where he and Mary had rented an apartment. They’d finally made it, and he couldn’t stop grinning.

He killed the motor and jumped out of the truck. Making sure cars could safely get by the truck, he strode to collect his wife. He had a very important ritual to carry out.

She whirred down the window. “We can’t park here, can we?”

“Cars can get by us. Turn off the motor.”

She frowned.

“Come on, Mar. Aren’t you excited about seeing our apartment again?”

She nodded enthusiastically and turned off the motor.

He opened her car door. Grasping her hand, he tugged her out of the car and into his arms. “Congratulations, Mrs. Reynolds. You just earned your master’s degree in driving.”

She beamed up at him. “Piece of cake.”

He laughed. “No kidding, Mary. I’m proud of you.”

“Thanks.” She ducked her head. “Me, too, a little bit.”

He lifted her effortlessly into his arms, her delicate bone structure nudging his protective tendencies.

She laughed. “What are you doing?”

“I’m carrying my new wife over the threshold, what else?”

“But our apartment is on the third floor.”

“Oh, ye of little faith. Do you think you married a weakling?”

“I know I did not.”

He took the porch steps two at a time to impress her. Wasn’t even breathing hard halfway up the flight of stairs.

At the second-floor landing, just a tad maybe.

Halfway up the next flight of stairs, breathing became more of an issue.

By the time he made it to the third floor, he was seriously questioning his judgment and his wife’s weight.

She hung on tight while he gasped for air, adjusted her in one arm, and dug in his jeans pocket for the apartment key. Finally, he somehow got the door open without dropping her and carried her through. “Welcome home.”

“My hero,” she breathed as she wrapped her arms tightly around his neck and gave him the passionate kiss he deserved for his heroics.

Grasping a breath of much-needed oxygen, he kissed her back with enough intensity to let her know how much he’d been wanting to kiss her.

She responded in kind.

Thankful to finally be alone in their own place, he deepened his kisses and let himself get lost in her.

A loud knock on the door made them both jump and jolted them back to the reality of a man in a uniform filling the open doorway just behind them. “Campus police,” he announced.

“Oh, no,” Mary whispered. Fluttering with obvious embarrassment, she twisted to get down from his arms.

He planted her solidly on the floor but kept her close in the circle of his arms. “Sorry, Officer.” He cleared his throat. “I guess we forgot to close the door.”

“I wouldn’t have climbed two flights of stairs to find you if the door was the only thing you forgot,” the man said. “I assume you two are responsible for the vehicles languishing in the middle of the street down there?”

“We couldn’t find a parking space,” Rick explained. “We just got married.

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