Summary: 'You're the only truth I know, you're the road back home.' After years apart, Andros and Ashley can finally start building their life together with their children. Sequel to Secrets Untold.

Phantom Rogue: Well, yeah, kinda. So don't kill me too much for this chapter.

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Zeopurple: No, actually, this holds something very different.

Tal: They could, sure, but they're already taking me, maybe next time. Andros is always cute!

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Living Truth

Chapter 9: Broken Paradise

Andros smiled, toying with Ashley's hair as she lay contently against him, her head resting on his chest. Nothing could get better than this. The mountain cabin Jeff had arranged for them was the most secluded one, far from civilisation in the middle off the woods, build on a small cliff. From the patio and balcony of their room you had a beautiful view of the green valley and the small village in the middle of it. A river flowed through it to perfect the picture and the sun would peek over the mountains on the other side in the morning, shining into their bedroom to wake them.

Right now it was perfectly dark outside, the sounds of forest animals flowing in on the soft breeze through the open doors leading to the aforementioned balcony.

"I like this." Ashley sighed softly. "Do we really have to leave in three weeks? It seems like way too little now we're here."

"Buy it as vacation home." Andros chuckled, kissing her hair.

"Ummm, good idea."

Andros smiled and continued playing with her hair. A comfortable silence settled over them again, both lost in their own thoughts.

"Hey Ash?" Andros suddenly asked.

"Mmm?"

"Carlos mentioned you dated Josh when we met him."

"Yeah, he was my first serious boyfriend." Ashley muttered. "People used to say we had found true love, especially since we were so young and managed to stay together for over two years."

"How serious is serious?" Andros asked curiously.

"Very." Ashley shrugged.

"Then why did you break up when he moved?"

"We didn't. What gave you that idea?" Ashley replied, pulling back a little surprised.

"Carlos." Andros replied simply.

"Carlos assumed we had, but we didn't. We didn't break up until a few months later. We called everyday, wrote to each other and kept that up. Our long-distance relationship was one of the few that was actually working. But when he came to visit his father a few months later we met up and it just wasn't the same. When his hands slipped under my shirt when we made out… it just didn't feel right anymore. We probably had true love while we were together, but somehow over the months we lived apart… I don't know, we lost it. We broke up then. It still hurt to, but we both saw it just wasn't going to work anymore. We stayed as close afterwards, just no romantic feelings anymore."

Andros stayed quiet for a moment and Ashley shifted uncomfortably.

"You… you made out like that?" Andros muttered a little detached. "Feeling under each others clothes?"

"Andros, I told you we were serious about each other." Ashley sighed. "Heck, we almost slept together."

"You what!" Andros exclaimed, sitting up and pulling away.

"We almost slept together." Ashley repeated. "We were fifteen, we had been dating for about half a year by then and we were both questioned by our own friends how far we went. We were laughed at us for not having slept together yet. We were making out on his room and well, one thing led to another. Only at the last moment did we change our minds. Neither of us was truly ready for it, especially not if we were doing it more because of the pressure of our friends then really wanting it, but we did come very close."

"And the 'last moment' means?" Andros inquired, rage slowly building inside of him.

"Exactly what it implies." Ashley told him. "Him and me both naked in his bed. We never regretted it though, probably because we caught ourselves in time before we did something really stupid."

Without another word Andros pushed the covers away from him and pushed himself to his feet. He fished around for his boxers for a moment, before pulling them on and stepping out onto the balcony, leaving Ashley alone in the bed.

Tears were filling her eyes as she watched Andros, anger and hurt evident in all his movements. She felt a few tears fall as she pulled the covers up a bit, biting back a sob. How could he do this to her? She married him, hadn't she? Couldn't he see it was in the past?

After a few minutes anger built inside of her. Andros had no right to treat her like this, just because she happened to have a serious boyfriend before him. So what if he wasn't the first to get under her clothes? Tons of girls actually slept with a guy or more before finding the person they wanted to spend their life with, if they ever did.

Angrily she brushed her tears away and wrapped the covers around her as she got out of bed and walked out to the balcony too. Andros was staring off into the valley. By the way he leaned against the railing she could see he was still angry.

"You're being irrational, you know." Ash told him softly.

"Am I?" Andros shot back, not looking around at her. "You might say there are no romantic feelings anymore, but how can you really know that? For all I know he's lusting after my wife."

"Andros, I've lived with him for years and nothing ever happened. He's not interested in me anymore. He became more of a brother to me, and believe me, neither of us believes in incest. He loves Atalya and if there's anyone he'd be lusting after it's Luisa, but she died, or else he'd have been married to her."

"What about you?" He was still not looking at her, but his voice had lost most of its edge.

"I'm married to you, aren't I? I carried your children even when I thought I'd never see you again. There's no one I'd want to be with but with you, right here, right now. I love you Andros, doesn't that mean anything anymore?"

"I…" Andros sighed, his shoulders slumping.

Ashley walked over and gently placed a small hand on his shoulder, placing a soft kiss right next to it.

"You're the only one I've ever let that close. You're my first, my last, my everything, Andros." She told him softly. "Please come back inside?"

He turned now, wrapping his arms around her and holding her tightly against him, placing a kiss on her hair.

"I'm sorry for getting angry. This is our honeymoon; we should be picking a fight."

"Oh, I'm not so sure about that." She told him mischievously. "They say make up-sex is quite enjoyable."

He grinned at the glittering in her eyes and leaned in to claim her lips, carefully backing them back into the bedroom. The covers dropped to the ground when Ashley released them, her hands travelled down his body and pushed down his boxers as they fell back to the bed. Until deep into the night the two spend making up, showing just how much they loved each other and proving there would never ever be anyone else.

When they finally fell asleep twin mysterious smiles played on their lips as they lay curled up against each other, the covers forgotten on the ground.

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