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There’d been plenty for her, too. She’d been offered a job at Beachcomber Bargains by Connie Galloway, who’d fallen in love with some of Caroline’s ideas for upcycling products. She wanted to start a whole boutique section in the shop, which was giving Caroline the chance to pursue the exact thing she was interested in doing in a way that was no financial risk to her. It was a win-win situation for them both.
Caroline turned to look up at me. “How would you feel about some more big changes?”
Curiosity piqued, I gripped her hips. “What did you have in mind?”
“Maybe knocking out some walls.”
“Oh, yeah?” Where was she going with this?
“You bought that house to be a house, not a duplex. A single-family home for the life you want to build.” She looped her arms around my neck and smiled up at me. “I’m saying yes. To all of it.”
My smile spread slow and wide. “You’re not just saying that because of the head injury?”
Her answering grin lit up those eyes I loved so much. “The doctor said I’m fully healed from that and fully in my right mind. I love you, Hoyt. And I want everything you’re offering.”
On a whoop of joy, I scooped her up, twirling her in a circle before taking her mouth in a hard, dizzying kiss.
When we came up for air, I took her hand and began towing her toward my new truck.
“In a hurry to celebrate?” she laughed.
“Hell yeah. We gotta stop by the hardware store.”
Her step faltered. “The hardware store?”
“Yeah, we need sledgehammers to take out those walls.” I looked down at the woman who’d be my wife. “I wanna get started on that forever today.”
