CHAPTER 49

1 YEAR LATER...

- Jack, come on, my son, your father's coming home and you'll want to open the door for him, won't you?

- Dad...

- Daddy... Raising his hands, he climbed into his mother's lap.

She opened the door and a blond, blue-eyed boy, like his mother, jumped onto my lap, and then went to take my mountie hat.

After a big hug, he went downstairs to play with his books. That little boy, like his mother, loved a good book, even at such a young age. And there she was, how beautiful she was... I pulled her into my arms and kissed those soft lips, so red they moved against my lips, and those little moans of hers, which filled me with desire for her. I still had memory problems, many things came back over time, but not everything. Carson was now my doctor, and according to him, I should thank God for the memory I'd managed to save and, above all, for the family I had. My mother and my brother Tom were very special people, but unfortunately I couldn't remember anything, but my mother told us to create new and good memories, and just being alive and healthy was a godsend. As for Elizabeth, some things from our past came back clearly, others were mere blurs, but I couldn't imagine being happier than now that I was married and a father. But of one thing I was certain... My Jack Thorton self, or my Philip self, was totally in love with this woman.

Nathan married Lina, and they bought a plot of land next to ours, and he and his other mountie friends each built their own house. Nathan was now just a cabinetmaker, he loved making things out of wood, each one more beautiful than the last, and he retired to enjoy his two boys, the little twins.