Chapter 10

It amazed him how much had changed in the last eighteen months. He had gone from being a lowly shepherd forced into a betrothal to save his mother to being madly in love, down on one knee and ending up with the most beautiful wife and daughter a man could ask for.

"Charming?"

His thoughts were interrupted by the sweet sound of his wife. They were in his mother's cottage staying for a few days as Christmas approached. Perfect, just him and Snow curled up in a bed by the fireside their sleeping princess snoring lightly while nestled between them. He turned to her softly, watching as she stroked Emma's hair careful not to wake the now very clingy and sleep-reliant one year old.

"Snow." Her name still felt feather light even after all this time.

Looking deep into her eyes he allowed his fingers to trace her chin instinctively pleasuring her with the smallest of intimate gestures.

"Thank you."

"For?"

"Everything," "This life, this love. Emma."

He virtually swoops himself over to her cautious to mind their toddler and crashes his lips against hers. She always says that he knows exactly the right "charming" things to say but, he never tires of showing her that she does exactly the same. It's a turn-on, a spark an unwritten tradition they never break. Saying "I love you" without words.

"Thank you." He hums into her lips. Deepening the kiss. His "You are my world." is not lost on her. "You both are my world."

She kisses him hard before pulling away.

"You've fought so hard for us. For this."

"I'd do it all over again for my girls."

She circles his chest with the tips of her fingers and kisses it rapidly causing a light chuckle to escape from him.

"Don't wake the baby." Snow whispers as she sees Emma stirring slightly.

"Then stop kissing me there."

"Ok here then."

Damn it! She'd moved to a more intimate place and he couldn't do a thing because of the sleeping babe.

"You little." He turns her over so they are both on the right side of the bed Emma safely unaware on the left.

"Well how else are we supposed to make another baby?"

"You want another baby?" He's joyfully dumbstruck.

"Don't you?"

"Nothing would make me happier Snow. You're an amazing mother. You're an amazing wife."

"So are you. You are an amazing Papa."

"So when we get home…."

"When we get home. Let's make our world a little bigger."