Grier giggled as Nick got off the bed and slowly removed his suit jacket.
“Are you putting on a strip tease for me?”
“No but I want to take my time. I want to savor every second of tonight. I want every moment to be so deeply engrained in my memory that when I’m old and senile, this memory, the night of making love to my wife for the very first time, is going to be recalled with ease, the same way it was when I made love to my fiancée for the first time.”
The sincerity of his words tugged at her heartstrings, and she watched as he slipped his coat over the back of a chair before coming back to stand in front of her at the side of the bed. With fingertips which held the slightest hint of a tremor, he removed his cufflinks and set them on the bedside table next to the flowers. He carefull
