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“Have I mentioned how grateful I am?”
“For what?”
Pearl gestures to the open seas before them. Horizon. Endless expanse of sunsetting sky. “All of it. Being here.” A pause. “You.”
“Only about a billion times,” Scott grins, and moves to join her. Her head falls against his shoulder - a simple motion, bigger than the whole world. He’s warm in the onsetting evening chill, the salt-spray cool as the tide creeps in.
“Well, I mean it.”
“I know.” Another silence. “You deserve it all, though.”
“Aw, don’t -”
“I’ll say it till you mean it,” and there’s no room to disagree.