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“Jen. Will you be my wife?”
It’s the longest moment of my life so far, but I know she understands taking the time to read the same message in twenty-foot-high words beaming down on us from behind me.
Marry me, Jen is the only speech I really need. And it’s only a shame the writing couldn’t be twenty feet higher.
It could never be big or tall enough to match how much I love her.
So when she says yes, once I slip the ring over her trembling finger, I know she’s well and truly mine.
Forever.
“I love you, Kane Gray,” she sniffs, torn between admiring the ring, the sign, and keeping her eyes fixed on mine.
“And I’ll love you until the end of time,” I promise her.
Every night, the best sleepover ever from now on with my daughter’s best friend.
My new best friend
My wife-to-be.
All. Mine.
EPILOGUE
THREE MONTHS LATER
Jen
My mom’s attitude shifted as soon as we broke the news of our engagement.
I thought it might be the last straw for my mom after catching the sight of me in the tub with Kane.
But once she heard wedding bells, she kind of hijacked the whole thing, appointing herself my matron of honor and making all the arrangements.
With Kane’s say so, of course.
Something else I just found out is that a mysterious and anonymous businessman, a retired fellow, bought out the owner of the diner mom works at, offering her the full run of the place with a hefty pay raise.
Andthe option to buy the business back from him, paying it off in installments.
I asked Kane if he knew anything about it, but he only shrugged, saying, "I hope she likes the diner as much as you said she does.”
And that was the end of that.
But for today, which is our very special day, mom’s taking a day off from the diner she’s busy converting to a restaurant and a back seat from her usual business in all the wedding preparations.
Determined to have the day all about us.
And Abby, of course.
She’s my bridesmaid and still my best friend.
My best female friend, that is.
Turns out her sprained ankle wasn’t from getting out of the cab for her rehearsal, after all.
She found a little romance of her own in the Big Apple.
