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He slowly lowered his head, and his lips were inches from mine when the back door to his house flew open and voices filled the air. I jumped back with a squeal, and Sid quickly turned away.
“Did we interrupt something?” Frank asked, smirking.
Mindy was grinning. Kate and Peter, standing beside her, looked gobsmacked. I rubbed my mouth, trying to stop the tingling of my lips. The intensity of the almost kiss rattled me more than the rude interruption.
“Hey, guys. What are you doing here?” I asked.
“We came to see if Sid wanted to have a fire.” Peter pointed toward the small pit in the back of Sid’s yard. “Also, Kate was baking today and wanted to share the goodies with him.”
“It seems we’ve stumbled onto something else,” Laney said, appearing from behind everyone. She was pulling Jacob behind her. “Care to explain?”
“Does no one read the gossip blog?” Mindy asked.
Kate patted her arm. “Not like you, Min.”
“Well, you should, because they were in it. More than once.” She took out her phone and started scrolling. Once she found what she wanted, she whooped before reading aloud.
Daily Happenings
It appears our lovely Kat is moving into Sid’s home. The two were spotted shopping together at Wicker’s Market before returning to Sid’s for an evening in.
“Oh, for Pete’s sake. Do they have nothing better to do?” I asked. Mindy held up her hand and continued reading.
Will we see a moving truck in Sid’s drive soon? Stay tuned to find out.
“What the hell?” Sid asked. “Who is writing this shit?”
“Oh, now you’re concerned, since you’re the topic,” Frank joked, lightly punching his arm.
“This is ridiculous,” I said.
“Is it?” Mindy asked. “Or is it true?”
“What’s going on?” Kate asked.
“Sid and Kat are engaged, and now the town wants to know if they’re moving in together,” Mindy said. “So are you?”
“You’re engaged?” Laney shouted. She ran over, lifted my left hand, and frowned. “Where’s the ring?”
“That’s what we all want to know,” Rebecca said from behind the pack of women surrounding me. “Do you have an answer, Kat?”
There was fire in my gut. I opened my mouth to tell them all to mind their own business, but Sid cleared his throat and stepped forward. He dropped to one knee, and my heart stopped.
“What are you doing?” I hissed.
“Kat, I was going to give this back to you in private, but since our nosy, opinionated friends don’t seem to believe our love is real, I thought this was a better idea.” He took my left hand and slid a ring onto it. “Will you marry me?”
I sucked in a breath and stared at the gorgeous ring on my finger. It was a white gold band covered with tiny diamonds. The square center stone sat high and was surrounded by a halo of smaller diamonds. Tears swam in my eyes, but not because of the ring. It was the hopeful expression on Sid’s face and the speck of light I saw in his eyes.
“Yes. Of course.”
He smiled and then stood and wrapped me in a hug.
“Are we missing something? I thought you were already engaged,” Frank said.
“Congratulations!” Laney cried. Kate hugged me and grabbed my hand. Both of them inspected the ring.
“We are, but her ring was being resized, and I got it back today. Since you guys are such big pains in my ass, I decided this was the best way to show you how serious we are,” Sid said.
