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Her skin pinked, and she looked past him. “I’m serious.”
“So am I.” She’d talked about him being strong before. Strong enough to weather losing his father at such a young age, strong enough to work like a man twice his age when he was twelve and thirteen, the way Rafael had had to take on the ranch at that age, and strong enough to live with a lunatic mother who made no secret of her preference for her other son for all those years. Although in the end, perhaps Mrs. Werner’s desertion was harder on Rafe.
Maybe it was time they both started believing in themselves. “With you by my side, Anna, my love, I can do anything.”
She blinked at him, and her faith in him showed in her clear green eyes. “And here I was thinking I had too many freckles.”
He swallowed hard at the sudden rush of heat that swept through his veins. No one passing would have any inkling what she meant, but he knew. They had both invented freckles for him to kiss. “You do love me, then.”
“I do.” Then her lips spread into a wide grin.
