Chapter 5
This is what she's been hiding all this time.
"Why didn't you tell me? Did you think I wouldn't be able to handle it or something?"
Kate shook her head. "I regret not telling you sooner, and I hope you'll be able to forgive me."
Ray stood up. "This doesn't change my feelings for you at all Kate. I was drawn to you from the first time we met. I don't know why, but I felt like I had known you forever."
Kate picked up her wedding photo and handed it to him. "Look at Matt's eyes. They are yours. I felt the same thing, and realized it was the eyes. I feel like every time I look at you that some of his love is shining through them. I know you aren't him, and I don't want you to be… and this just sounds really freaky and I'm just going to stop now."
"Kate, it's not freaky. When I met you I felt something was different. I'm not the romantic type of guy, but with you, it was different. I didn't just see you as a groupie, I saw you as somebody I could possibly love. It was emotions I had never felt about anyone before. If that was some of Matt's love for you somehow, that's fine. But I know that I love you, and that it's my true feelings. My feelings, and nobody else's."
He pulled her to her feet and kissed her. As she wrapped her arms around his neck, she felt like her life was complete. The part of her heart that had been missing for so long was back and stronger than ever.
A year later…
Ray grabbed her hand and they walked out of the reception and headed back to the apartment.
"Well Dr. Barnett, shall we go home?"
"I'd love to Dr. Barnett."
Ray picked her up and carried her over the threshold of their new apartment. He carried her into the bedroom and the two spent their first night together as husband and wife.
Ray woke up the next morning and watched his wife sleep. She's so beautiful. I'm so lucky I found her. He bent down to kiss her good-morning.
"I love you so much Kate. Wake up so we can spend the rest of our lives together."
She grinned up at him and kissed him back. They were finally home.