As the credits rolled, Ethan turned and looked at Theresa. He had noticed how quiet she had been during the movie, he just figured she was really getting in to it. As his eyes fell upon her, he realized why she had been so quiet. She was asleep. Well, so much for our night of passion, he thought. He gently and quietly moved her from him, and went in to the kitchen to turn off the lights there and all through the house before he carried her upstairs to bed. But when he got back to the living room, she was gone.

"I'm up here Ethan"

He heard Theresa say, in a voice that was so sexy, he got hot just hearing it. He quickly sprinted up the stairs to find her.

When he entered the bedroom, Theresa was lying on the bed, dressed in a floral teddy with matching panties and robe. She had managed to light about 10 candles in the few minutes she was upstairs, and the room was filled with their scent.

"Theresa", Ethan sighed. He practically ran over to the bed, he could feel himself getting more and more excited. He walked over to her on the bed and sat down next to her, as his mouth descended upon hers.

"Now, I know what you have in mind", Theresa said, putting her finger on his lips before they met hers, "But, I want to see the unmentionables that you brought, too."

"You are going to give me heart attack, you know that?"

"Ethan, it's been so long, I just want everything to be perfect."

"I know baby, I do to." Suddenly the smile was gone from Ethan's face. He started to look pensive.

"What's wrong, Ethan?"

"Theresa, I have to ask you a question. This has been bothering me for quite some time, and I think I know the answer, but I just need to be sure."

"Ethan, tell me. I know something has been bothering you, but I wanted to wait for you to tell me, when the time was right."

"I don't really have a right to ask you this," he said as he paced around the bedroom., "but,......Oh hell, I'm just going to come right out and say it...Have you been with anyone else since you and I were together?"

Theresa stared at Ethan. He looked back at her. For the first time in all of the time that they had known each other, he could not tell what she was thinking.

Theresa got up from the bed and walked over to him, and took his hands in to hers.

"Ethan, no. Of course not. When I woke up that morning in Bermuda, next to Julian, I felt so horrible for so many different reasons. But the biggest being I thought I had cheated on you. That guilt followed me for so long. But a month ago, you lifted that weight from my shoulders. I won't lie to you, when Fox and I first started dating, I thought I would be able to give myself to him. But after that fight you and I had in the pool room, I knew I was still madly in love with you. And when you would be mine again I didn't know, I just knew that someday, you would, and then, I would be yours and yours only."

"God Theresa, I love you so much. I am in constant awe at what an amazing woman you are. Just when I think you can't get any better, you do."

"Ethan, I'm not amazing, I just love you, I always have. It took me a long time to realize it, but when I was younger and I "thought" I was in love with you , it was just a school girl crush. But after I started working for your mother and spending more and more time with you, I knew I really did love you, and would forever."

Ethan's dropped his face onto Theresa's and gently kissed her full lips. After a few minutes, Theresa could feel herself more and more excited. And as the kiss got deeper and more passionate, she could feel through Ethan's jeans that he was as excited as she was.

Ethan was the first to pull away. "If I don't change in to my unmentionables now, I never will."

"I'll be in the bathroom," said Theresa.

"Give me five minutes."

"Oh, I'll be timing you!" Theresa walked in to the bathroom and closed the door.

She immediately began pinching herself. "Oww...oh good, it's true!"