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“Call them off, Mason.”
He sighed. “Okay. I will.”
I shook my head, and Becky laughed. This wasn’t the first time that Mason had had our security guards tail Becky or the girls. After Mary and Becky had been kidnapped, Mason had had a tail on them for a month. It was only when Becky had gone head-to-head with the security personnel following them that we discovered that Mason had hired them.
Becky was cautious, still always aware of her surroundings, still getting spooked from time to time when she heard loud noises. I guessed that was a good thing to a point, as long as fear didn’t own her.
“Your brothers …” she said, laughing and cuddling close.
“Are over the top,” I finished for her.
“In the best possible way,” she added.
We sat at the bench. I’d liked to call it our bench now because it was where we sat every time we came here. We’d watch the girls jump from the monkey bars, run up the slide, and rush to the swing.
“I can’t believe how time is flying,” Becky said absently as I rubbed her shoulder. “The school year is over, and now, summer is here.” She pushed her hair out of her face, but the wind blew it forward, causing her to huff and push it back again.
“Here.” I pulled back her hair and tucked it in the back of her shirt, which caused her to laugh.
She threw me a look—her playful, annoyed look—which made me pull her closer and into my lap.
“I’m going to have to secure you right here so that your hair doesn’t fly everywhere.”
She was in my lap, facing the front.
I leaned in closer, whispering in her ear, “Let’s get away. Me and you.” I had a secret plan on proposing to Becky, but we hadn’t had the opportunity to get away, just the two of us.
A small smirk tugged at her lips. “Where?”
“Anywhere. I haven’t planned anything, and it’s about time we got away, just us.”
Her eyes shone with an inner glow. “What about the girls?”
I shrugged. “The guys can watch them for a week.”
She sat up straighter, facing me fully this time. “But I want to take them. I want our first trip to be as a family, all of us—Brad and Mason and Janice if they want to go too.”
I held back my grimace at the mention of Janice. And the idea of my brothers tagging along didn’t appeal to me, not when I wanted to be alone with my girl for once.
Becky’s stare flickered back to the girls, now on the seesaw, and then back to meet my eyes. “We’ll have so many opportunities to take trips with just the two of us. But, I’m still getting to know the girls. My first vacation … I really want it to be all of us.”
I sighed, feeling myself giving in to her even though I wanted her all to myself.
This woman. I didn’t think I could love her any more than I already did.
I raised a dubious eyebrow. “You know where they’ll want to go, right?”
We both responded at the same time, “Disney World.”
She sighed into me. “I’ve never been even though I lived in Florida.” Her smile widened. “We can even take Patty. She doesn’t live far from Disney.”
I took her chin and angled it closer to me, kissing her. “Disney it is.” Because I couldn’t help but give in to her. Her hold over me was powerful in the best possible way, and I vowed to give her whatever she wanted for the rest of our lives together.
She jumped out of my arms, as though the news were a burst of caffeine in her veins. “Girls! We’re going to Disney!”
Mary stilled mid-climb up the slide. Sarah dropped her feet, stopping the swing. And then they both screeched with excitement and ran at warp speed toward us, hugging Becky and jumping and cheering as though they’d won a real, live unicorn.
I shook my head. The girls had been four times already, but they clearly never got sick of it.
