She could only manage a soft sound of agreement at first, her fingers moving back from his hair to graze over his ears and trail down his neck, trying to draw his chin back up to seize his lips in a hard kiss. When words failed, actions would have to suffice, and if the way one leg rose between both of them, one bare foot trailing against his lower calf as she arched closer to him, they echoed the same feelings he had spoken.

The process of building a family had always been a necessary step, but now it was something that would be infinitely enjoyable, as well...