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“Thank Christ,” I grunted, my arm squeezing her tighter before letting go long enough to pull her onto my lap so her thighs were straddling mine.
“You asked me a while back what I wanted us to be.” I took her left hand and dragged my thumb across her ring. “I want us to be exactly what we’ve always been. Fucking perfect for each other. I want you to wear this ring every single day for the rest of our lives, and I want to put another one beneath it when the day comes that you finally take my name. I want my house to beours, and I want to build on to it so we have room for our family to stay with us on holidays, even once we start having kids. But mostly, I want to spend the rest of my life making you happy.”
She giggled, taking my cheeks in her hands as she bent forward to kiss me. “I want that too. And I also want the wedding dress I fell in love with when I went with our ladies before they left.”
“Then it’s yours,” I assured her. “There’s nothing you could ever want that I won’t give you, baby.”
She kissed me breathless, making my dick stir to life before jerking back with wide eyes and a sharp gasp. “What are we going to do about Vanessa? She’s still here.”
I smiled, feeling my dimples cave in deep. “Already taken care of.” She lifted a quizzical brow. “I had my suspicions when she showed up out of the blue, so I called John.” I let out a grunt of frustration. “Hadn’t talked to that fucker in a long time, and certainly don’t feel the need to ever do it again, but I wanted to know what she was up to. Turned out, he divorced her.”
Her jaw dropped. “You’re kidding!”
I shook my head. “Wish I was. Apparently, as soon as the ink on the divorce papers dried, she hopped a plane to Tennessee. It took me a while to get all the information I needed, but that call with John tied things up. I went to the courthouse the other day to file a restraining order.” A wry grin pulled at my face. “Holt should be serving her soon enough. My guess, she’s out of our town and our lives by the end of this week.”
I hadn’t realized the window nearby was open until Poppy’s voice rang out from inside the house. “Does that mean I’m free to kick her ass out of my inn?”
Wynn’s head fell back on a belly laugh as I turned my head and answered, “Knock yourself out. Please make sure Wynn and I have a front row seat when you hand her the walking papers.”
“Deal!” she shouted with way too much glee for a woman who was about to lose out on a room rental. But having known Vanessa, I had a feeling the loss of income was more than worth it.
Hurried footsteps scurried through her house, then a second later, the back door banged shut. Seemed she wasn’t in the mood to hesitate.
“So,” Wynn breathed, bringing my attention back to her. “You want to marry me, huh?”
I groaned as I trailed my hands up her delectable curves and pulled her chest against mine. “Bits, when it comes to you, I wanteverything.”
On that declaration, she sealed her lips against mine and proceeded to give me even more.
Epilogue
WYNN
Sometimelater
I satat the table in the middle of Bad Alibi, surrounded by my girls. It was Ladies’ Night once again, so we were hanging close to the bar, laughing and cutting up while we enjoyed a few drinks. Our men hung by the pool tables, giving us space but keeping an eye to make sure we didn’t get into too much trouble.
I looked toward the raised platform where my husband sat, my eyes trailing over my friends’ husbands until they landed on the man I was searching out.
Myman.
It was as if he felt me looking and abruptly turned away from the conversation he was having with Jensen and Jase to look my way. The instant our eyes met, he gave me that dimpled smile I loved so much.
To say I was living my happily ever after was an understatement. Life wasn’t merely happy, it was downright perfect.
I’d had a dream wedding, marrying the love of my life in the most perfect wedding gown in existence. Not long after, Marcia and Grandma Buttons had packed up their belongings and made the move from South Dakota to Redemption where every winter they counted their blessings when they didn’t have to face a single blizzard.
My father had put in for his retirement recently, and he and my mom were making plans to fly down and go house hunting soon.
Like I said, life wasperfect.
I returned his grin with one of my own before lowering my chin and gazing at him through the fan of my lashes, my eyes conveying the promise of what was to come later that night.
“Oh, gross!” Aurora cried.
I saw her staring at me in disgust as the rest of my girls laughed and grinned. “You’re blatantly eye-fucking your husband in a public place,” she teased. “At least have some class and do that shit in private where we don’t all have to see it.”
I let out a laugh and drained the last of my drink, setting the glass on the table with athunk. “You know what? I think that’s a brilliant idea.” I pulled a few bills out of my wallet and tossed them on the table. “It’s been real, ladies, but I have enough of a buzz going to let Gage do some very wicked things to me. See you later.”
