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“Do you love me?”
Her heart swelled. As if there was ever any doubt as to her feelings, she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. “I love you more than anything in this world. I don’t care what you do, I know you’ll always keep me safe. I will marry you today, tomorrow, whenever.”
He folded her into his chest and sighed against her neck. “I want you to have the wedding you’ve always dreamed of. I want you to wear your mother’s dress.”
Jenna smiled and pulled back. “I guess we can officially tell them we’re getting married now?”
“Did they ever know any different?” he asked.
“No.”
Mac shrugged. “Then let’s not tell them. We’re only moving forward. No regrets and no looking back.”
“I couldn’t agree more.” She trailed her fingertip along the coarse hair covering his jaw. “But I want a honeymoon in Bora Bora.”
“I want a honeymoon for the rest of our lives all over the world.”
Mac laid Jenna back on the bed and proceeded to get started on that honeymoon...breakfast forgotten once again.
Epilogue
“We have a problem.”
Words Mac never liked to hear, especially from Braden. They’d been riding life too easily lately...well, easily for them. Of course something had to land in their laps.
“What?” he asked, gripping the phone.
Jenna had gone shopping with her mother. Only a week ago he’d officially asked her to marry him and now the women were out planning. Mac didn’t care what she planned, so long as she was his wife sooner rather than later.
“Laney called and said she’s come across some chatter of an investigation being done on the down low.”
“And we’re the subject?”
“Yeah.”
Damn it. “Do we know where the threat is coming from?” Mac asked, sinking into his leather office chair.
“Not yet. She just called me, but she’s trying to hack into more databases,” Braden explained. “She said this will take some time, so we need to keep things squeaky clean until we know where the real danger is.”
Mac rested his elbows on his desk and eyed his shut door. He’d come into the office early but kept the door shut because he hadn’t wanted to be disturbed when his assistant came in.
“Do you think it’s someone who works for us or some unknown entity trying to get close to us?”
Braden blew out a frustrated breath. “I have no idea and I’m pissed. We don’t know who set this into motion or how many are involved.”
“We need to figure out who it is as soon as possible. We can’t alert our allies in the FBI or local law enforcement until we know what we’re up against.”
“Trust me, Laney is on it and she’s just as pissed as we are. Nobody comes at us like this.”
And lives, Mac wanted to say. But he wasn’t going to get into that hot debate again. As much as Braden wanted to move their family into a new, less violent territory, there had to be repercussions for such actions.
Still, it was a topic they could and would discuss once they knew more details.
“Does Ryker know?”
“I’m calling him next,” Braden explained. “Just keep Jenna close until we know what we’re up against. This may be someone out to harm us physically or attack our business. Damn it, I hate being in the dark.”
Mac swallowed. This was one of the reasons he’d hesitated letting Jenna in so deep. But he realized that having her close was the best place for her. It was the only way to ensure her safety.
“I’ll be sure to stay on high alert. We just need to keep Ryker in the background for now. Even the scroll hunt needs to be suspended. If he discovered where they were and went in—”
“Yeah. I know. I’ll make sure he understands the severity of the situation.”
“Any other bad news?” Mac asked.
“That’s it. But I want you to be watching everything in your offices. This timing reeks and I don’t believe in coincidences. We didn’t have an issue until we opted to open new branches and I’m wondering if there’s a plant in either the Miami or Atlanta location.”
Mac came to his feet and rubbed the back of his neck. “I’ll have Laney look deeper into the new employees’ personal lives. I want texts, where they go on their time off, everything.”
