(A/N-Special thanks to Bekki boo for beta reading this. And to those who read, review, follow and fav.)

"I can't undo the past, if I could I would in a heartbeat. I lost my son and you in the process of my stupidity," Robin admitted as he watched her grab her robe and leave the bed. He pulled on some lounge pants and followed her to the window, standing beside her as she looked out.

"You're always good with words," Regina said defiantly as she turned to face him.

"Listen to me, please," Robin implored her. "I wake up in the mornings and you not being by my side to hold you, is torture. I love you, Regina. With my whole being, get to know the man I am today. Please don't hold my past mistakes made by another man who didn't have the common sense to see what he had right in front of him."

Robin had said he loved her, words she had longed to hear for so very long, and she couldn't believe it. She studied his handsome features, saw the strain in his blue eyes. But..."I don't believe you."

"I don't blame you. I know I treated you abominably in the past, and in the present. Maybe I should start at the beginning." He sounded unsure of himself, a first. "But please listen," he pleaded. "If I don't tell you now I might never have the nerve again."

"All right. I'm listening," she encouraged.

"I have loved you from the moment I saw you, Regina, but in my conceit I took your innocence, your love for granted, without giving anything in return."

"Not true, you gave me lots of jewelry," she said.

"Exactly my point-I gave something that cost me nothing in relation of my wealth and, as you so right said, was sleazy. But I never saw it like that. I only had to look at you to want you, still do." He tried to smile. "The months we were together were the happiest of my life, until tragedy struck and I handled it very badly. I only thought of myself, not how you were feeling. But I never meant to leave you. My father had a heart attack."

"I know, Charles told me," she murmured

"Yes, well you can't use a cellphone in Intensive Care so I gave mine to Lisa and told her to call you and tell you I'd be delayed."

"She didn't call me. I called her," Regina said. "She was very sympathetic and told me she was used to getting rid of your women. She said you had told her to inform me you were not coming back and advised me to leave."

"She what?" His eyes grew large with outrage. "She never got rid of a woman for me in her life, I got rid of her, for years ago, when I belatedly realized she wanted to be more than my PA. And I certainly never asked her to tell you to leave, she told me you wanted to go."

"Going over the past is pointless," Regina said with a shake of her head. "Let's be honest, you could have found me if you had really wanted to. You had no trouble finding me recently," she said bluntly. "Charles told me you wanted to marry me before, but we both know it would not have been for love but because of the baby." She wasn't going to trust his avowal of love so easily.

"I deserve that, but it isn't the real truth." His blue eyes held hers. There was a vulnerability in those eyes that had never been there before, his complexion was deepening into what looked like a blush. "I didn't look for you because I was an emotional coward. When I returned to the apartment and you had gone I told myself it was for the best that you had moved on, but it meant I did not have to face how badly I really felt. I also felt guilty because you had just lost the baby."

"You felt guilty?" Regina asked. "Why?"

"Because for the first time in my adult life I panicked when you told me you were pregnant. When I got over the shock I knew I wanted to marry you and not just for the baby, but I'm ashamed to say I was in no hurry to tell you. Then, when I got to the hospital and the doctor told me you had lost the baby, he also gave me a few words of caution. He said he had noticed bruises on your thighs and a few other places, and that it would be a good idea to tone down the sex a little, especially if you got pregnant again. He said I could go in and see you. I walked into your room, totally disgusted with myself and feeling as guilty as hell. I might have caused you to lose the baby."

Regina's head was reeling. His confession had come totally out of the blue. The look of disgust on his face as he had entered her hospital room had haunted her for years, but it had never been for her, as she had first thought, but at himself. A spark of hope ignited in her heart. Maybe he did love her.

Suddenly she was incensed on Roland's behalf. "The doctor should never had told you that. The way we made love had nothing to do with him, and I enjoyed every moment. It certainly was not your fault that I lost the baby."

For a second his eyes sparkled with a trace of his usual arrogance. "Maybe not, but along with Lisa's meddling it gave me another convenient excuse for not trying to find you. Because, being honest, I realized it was a relief as well. I always like to be in control, and what I felt for you terrified me. Our relationship was the longest I had ever had, I only had to think of you to want you with an ache that would not go away. I told myself it was just lust, but deep down I knew I was only fooling myself. I loved everything about you, your breathtaking smile, your quick enquiring mind. " His blue eyes seemed to see right into her soul. "The soft avowals of love you gave so freely. I'd give anything to hear them again."

Regina gave him a tentative smile, but still wasn't sure she believed him.

"I panicked for the second time in my life when Mikhailov took you from me." His hands tightened on hers and stared up at him. The planes and angles of his face were taut, and she wondered what was coming next to make him so tense. "Because I finally admitted to myself that I love you, Regina, and only you. I could not bear the thought of losing you, I could not go through that pain again. I want to be the man you need, the one you turn to when you need someone."

He let go of her hands, and leaning over her, clasped her face between his palms. His blue eyes looked deep into her wary dark ones.

"You have to believe me, Regina. I love you." He pleaded. "I never even looked at another woman for over two years after you left." His hands slid down to her shoulders, his fingers flexing in her bare skin, and she shivered but Robin did not seem to notice.

"That, I find hard to believe," Regina murmured. Robin was a man who had a high sex drive, but she was flattered at the thought, and the spark of hope burned brighter with every word he said.

"It is absolutely true. I swear, but I know you don't trust me, how could you after the way I have treated you? The moment I saw you again, I was determined to get you back. I could have flattened Hatter when he kissed you."

She recognized jealously in his eyes, "That is all Jefferson ever did," she told him. Honesty cut both ways.

"Thank you for that," he acknowledged and continued, "That day I found out about Roland I was angry and I blamed you, but it was my own fault because I had wasted five years denying how I truly felt. Regina, I know I don't deserve you, and I'm not asking you to love me, only to stay with me and let me prove to you the man I can be. Please give me another chance. Please let me make up for my stupid mistakes. I want nothing more than to spend my life with you, as your husband."

Regina lifted her hand, and this time she did sweep the few strands of hair from his brow. Robin pleading for her love was something she had never imagined, and her heart was filled with love. But did she trust him? Could she trust him?

"I said my father was a silly old fool for keeping his promise to my mother. But now I know exactly how he feels. I love you. I adore you, I worship the ground you walk on, and I am the biggest fool for being a coward and not admitting it sooner. And if the answer is no," his hands tightened on her shoulders and he looked like a man going to the gallows, "I will give you and Roland your freedom. You can return to your home and I will be a visiting father." He grimaced as he could not imagine his life now without Regina and Roland in his day to day life. "Like you said, some things are unconscionable and I can do no less."

"You won't have to." She took a leap of faith and trusted Robin with her heart, "I do love you, Robin and I always have," Regina confessed, her eyes inexplicably filling with tears as elation flooded through her. She gave him a beautiful smile. Robin loved her. "If you remember, I used to tell you that all the time, too naive to hide my feelings," she declared, and it was there for him to see in the brilliant dark eyes blazing into his. "Nothing has changed, I loved you then, and I love you now."

"Regina, if you only knew how I longed to hear you say those words again," Robin murmured throatily, and he kissed her almost reverently, with love and a deep, soulful passion that touched her heart and melted her bones.

A long moment later he lifted his head. "You have made me the happiest man alive." He looked into her gleaming dark eyes, his own burning clear. "Do you remember you once gave me a gold heart? Well, I have cherished it for years. It is my lucky charm and it always gave me hope."

She watched speechless as he pulled out the golden trinket, it was now on a chain. It gave her even more hope than she could imagine. "Of course I remember it."

He smiled and kissed her brow. "Now you have gifted me with your true heart, and for that I am eternally grateful. I will love, cherish and protect you till my dying day." He kissed her again.

In moments she was beneath him, his clothes off and her robe removed. Naked, he smiled down at her, his eyes full of humor and love, "Now for the worship and adoration," he murmured.

They started to make love with a slow, aching tenderness, stroking, sighing, and murmuring soft words of love and need. Robin finally thrust into her sleek, welcoming body and they came together in a meeting of body and mind, two soulmates becoming one in a walk, wonderful climax.

As they laid there, Regina lifted her hand to run her fingers down his cheek and then curved her slender arm lovingly around his neck. Robin kissed her lightly on the lips. "With us together now, the place does not matter. All that matters is that I am with our son, and the woman I love with all my heart, now and always."

**********************************Several weeks later**********************************

"Happy?" Robin asked as Regina turned laughing eyes up to her new husband.

"I've never been happier," Regina answered.

Regina looked radiant. He had not the words to do justice to her beauty, inside and out. Her hair, dark as midnight, was perfect with loose waves that shimmered down her back. The wedding dress she wore fitted her shapely body like a glove. It was a Pnina Tornai Ivory lace gown with v-neckline and long sleeves, the back was out and low. Robin had insisted on a huge wedding in a church followed by a party with their family and friends to celebrate in their happiness.

Regina was the love of his life. She was his life, he had been lost without her all those years that they were separated, all his fault, but he wasn't going to spend another day without her in his life.

"The church service was beautiful. You were right to insist on it," Regina said. She was so happy today. Her husband had opened up to her in a way she would never have thought possible a few months ago. He had shed a few tears as she had whispered in his ear what she had just learned a few days ago.

They were going to make Roland a big brother. He had told her that he loved her, about the hundredth time today alone. Reaching up, she ran her fingers through his hair and kissed him. "I love you, wife," Robin murmured when they came up for air. "Roland is upstairs asleep with the sitter watching over him. Let's leave now, and I'll show you how much."

Regina pulled back. "I love you too, husband." A slow, sensuous smile curved her lips, and there was an evil gleam in her dark eyes. "We can't leave our guests." She teased him. "Don't you dare, Robin," she said as he hauled her close. He had laughed when she had told him about the no sex plan she had on marrying him. And he'd been stunned when she hadn't told him until she was nearly three months pregnant again because she hadn't wanted him to become and over protective husband. He had been humbled and overwhelmed with the love he had for her. Regina, his wife, the mother of his children, filled his heart and his life with so much love and joy that he thanked god every day that he had found her and more importantly, that she had forgiven his pig headed way that he had treated her in the past.

But sometimes the caveman came out of him, like now. And sweeping Regina up in his arms, he carried her out of the ballroom, to the cheers and laughter of the family and all their guests.

He had what he hadn't know he had always wanted.

A family.

The End.