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“Just come here.” Dominic dragged me by the hand to the windows at the far side of the office. The view of the city was beautiful, although the row of apartments across the street looked like they’d lost power. It was strange, considering the surrounding buildings still had lights on.

“You wanted me to see a power outage?” I asked.

“Just wait.” Dominic looked at his watch. He seemed nervous, which was rare for him.

“What’s going on, Dominic?”

“And…” he pointed out the window just as lights flicked on in the buildings.

I grinned. “Cool. You knew when they’d get power back?”

“Look closer.Ah, shit.”

I frowned, not understanding until it hit me all at once. The windows that lit up spelled out letters. “M. R. R. Y. E.”

The letters were huge and spaced out over seven buildings, but two of the buildings were still completely dark. “Mrrye?” What does that mean?”

“Damn it, hold on. Maybe they–”

Suddenly one of the dark buildings lit up with an “A”.

“Marry,” I muttered. “Oh my God. Marry me?” I asked, turning and jumping up and down like a dog who just saw its owner grab the leash. I was doing freaking human tippy taps and I couldn’t stop it. “Marry me?” I repeated.

“I was going to ask you, but if you insist…” he dropped to one knee and everybody clapped.

Charleston hit a button and sentimental music played. It was choking me up. I was laughing, smiling, crying, and still doing little jumps as I put a hand to my mouth.

Dominic grinned as he pulled out a little box and held up the ring for me. “Darcy McClain, will you do me the honor I definitely don’t deserve and marry my grumpy ass?”

He opened the box like he wanted me to inspect it, but I stuck my hand out impatiently. “Yes!” I shouted.

There was scattered laughter, and Dominic got up, sliding the ring on my finger and bracing himself when I threw myself at him, kissing him and laughing at the same time.

“I’m going to marry you so hard,” I said. I was talking nonsense, but I didn’t care. “And we’re going to be so happy.”

He laughed. “Yeah. Grumpily ever after.”

“That’s all I could ever want,” I said, kissing him again.

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EPILOGUE - DARCY

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One year later

Iglanced down at my phone and heard the disapproving sound from Dominic at my side.

“Work will be fine without us for one week, Baby.” He put his arm around my shoulders and led me down the boardwalk, gesturing to the sunset on our right. “I want you here with me. All of you.”

I pursed my lips and wiggled my shoulders, leaning into him. “I suppose that wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.”

Workwouldsurvive without us. I knew he was right. Jasmine had stepped in and been one of the most hands-down awesome managers and lead editors we could’ve ever asked for. She was the first line of defense against stupid submissions and bad ideas. She was also more than capable of standing guard over the business while we were in California for a week.But,work was also booming. Our business model had been even more successful than whatThe Squawkerwas doing and we had freelancers and full-time employees from all over the world now. We put out nearly a dozen stories per week, most of which ended up hitting best-seller lists. It was a new way to consume media, and people were loving it.

At first, I thought the pride and satisfaction would fade with time. I guessed it had, in some ways. But I’d also never been this happy. I wasdeliriouslyhappy. I took Dominic’s big hand in both of mine and squeezed. I had a surprise for him when we got back to the beach house we were renting. A very big surprise. I was tempted to spoil it now and tell him, but I had been planning this for weeks and didn’t want to screw it up.

“I talked to my dad yesterday,” Dominic said suddenly.

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