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“Josh, are you absolutely sure?”
He huffs and spins around to walk into the kitchen for a glass of water. “For the sixth time, yes. I’m sure.”
“How can you be so ready to leave?” She goes to stand in front of him as he leans against the sink. “Don’t you want to take a while to mull things over?”
Josh just downs the water and sets his feet as he looks at her. “Honey, my time in politics is done, okay? There’s nothing higher for me here than Chief of Staff, you know that. I’ve done what I can for the White House and now maybe I can help inspire and teach the next generation’s president.”
Donna runs her hands up his arms in a soothing motion. “I just can’t picture you anywhere but here. DC is home. It’s been home for so long. I never thought we’d go anywhere else.”
“Donna,” he says, grinning and wrapping his hands around her waist. “Home stopped being a place when you entered my life. We could live in, I don’t know, Antarctica, and it’d still feel just like it feels in DC. As long as you’re there, that’s where home is.”
She smiles shyly up at him and toys with the collar on his shirt. “Connecticut, huh?”
His dimples peek out. “Go Bulldogs.”
“You will make a very hot teacher,” she murmurs, threading her fingers through his hair. “Professor Lyman.”
He kisses her quickly. “That is hot,” he says, kissing her again. “Can we make it a rule you have to call me that in bed from now on?”
She giggles against his lips. “Yes, but I’m retiring Wild Thing.”
“I can live with that.”