Evangeline laughed as John tried to hit the golf ball from the tee.  “John, it’s a golf club, not a baseball bat!” she said. “Pretend that you’re Robert Clemens” she added.  John turned to her and said nothing.  He knew that it wouldn’t be easy to win her again but he also knew that she was worth whatever he had to do to have her as his wife.  “I’d stop the world if only I could hold you one more time”.

The golf outings, the ballet performances, the tennis matches, and even couples therapy at Blessed Soul, a highly recommended couples retreat, whatever he had to do he did it. It didn’t take long for them to both realize that they were only delaying the inevitable. They belonged together.  So on a beautiful sunny day in September, Evangeline Williamson and John McBain became husband and wife.

Five years later

Evangeline is now a Judge and John is now an FBI Assistant Director.  Evangeline couldn’t help but smile as she looked adoringly at her husband as he chased after their son and she held the hand of their daughter. No one was more surprised than Evangeline and John when they found out that she was pregnant, with twins, within the first year of their marriage.  She thought that she was too old to have children, but everything went well with the pregnancy and the delivery.  Now here they are so many years after first meeting in Angel Park in Llanview, older and wiser and more deeply in love than they could have ever imagined.  Love does conquer all.

“I’d say a prayer each time you smile

Cradle the moment like a child

I’d stop the world if only I 

Could hold you one more time”

The End