Hours later, Jeremy and Kat were lying entwined. Jeremy was watching Kat sleep. He was marveling at how she can still be radiant when she's sleeping and even snoring (ha ha). He remembered her saying that Romeo would have flown back to Rosaline in no time once he discovers how loud Juliet snores. Now Jeremy was certain that would have been false for he had no desire to go elsewhere. He wanted to hold Kat forever. It was only Kat that brought him to the romantic intensity he was looking for.
They were scheduled to go their separate ways when the morning comes but Jeremy knew he couldn't afford to do that. He could never let her go. Jeremy made up his mind that tomorrow; he would be man enough and tell Kat exactly how he feels about her. He was hoping that Kat would agree to just tear those divorce papers to tiny shreds instead of signing them. At that moment, he would have asked her to do that if only she wasn't in a tranquil slumber. He can only whisper in her ears, "Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast."
He gave her one last goodnight kiss before drifting to sleep thinking, "Oh blessed, blessed night! I am afeard, Being in night, all this but a dream."
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By the time Kat woke up, it was Jeremy who was asleep. She smiled and snuggled herself closer to him. She just had given herself completely to another man, something she promised never to do again. But having Jeremy lying beside her, with his arms around her, she felt protected as opposed to threatened.
She kissed Jeremy before putting on her robe and getting up to do a sort of test on herself to find out if she was really ready to leave all her hurt behind and move on with Jeremy.
She went over to the drawer and pull out the envelope containing her divorce decree with Gerard. For 2 years after signing it, she couldn't bring herself to look at it. Those papers were the tangible representation of her biggest failure, a disappointment, pain… But at that moment she felt an enormous strength within.
Slowly, she took the decree out of the envelope. With all her focus, she read everything on it and---nothing, she felt nothing. Funny but it didn't have any effect or whatsoever on her.
She looked over at Jeremy and smiled. Now she was certain a "prodigious birth of love it is to her" that she was ready to take her chance with Jeremy.
She went to the kitchen to make herself a coffee, hoping that when Jeremy wakes up, he would be prosing to push through their marriage and make her his real wife.