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When he moved back, he had this wicked grin on his face as he pulled out the marker and took my hand in his. He drew a black line around my ring finger and then handed me the marker. I drew the same line around his finger before turning my attention to the little girl standing beside him with the biggest smile on her face.
“How about you? Can I keep you forever, Gracie Reynolds?”
Her teeth sank into her bottom lip, and she nodded. “You want to marry me, too, Presley?”
“More than anything.”
“Me, too,” she said, and I took her hand and drew the same ring around her finger before she lunged forward and hugged me tight.
Cage got this soft look in his eyes that I didn’t see often, and his tongue swiped out along his bottom lip. The move was so sexy that I fought the urge to groan.
He handed the marker to Gracie. “How about you go put this in the kitchen and let me kiss my future bride without you watching.”
Gracie giggled and ran off to the kitchen as Cage pulled me forward, and his hand covered the back of my head as my lips crashed into his.
And I was completely overcome with emotion.
Because I’d never felt happiness the way I did right here, right now.
I’d found my forever, and I was never letting go.
thirty
Cage
It wasmy favorite day of the year, next to the day that I’d made Presley Reynolds my wife. We hadn’t wanted to wait, and we didn’t want anything formal or fancy.
We just wanted forever, and we wanted it right away.
We’d both felt like we’d waited long enough for one another. So, a week after we’d returned to Cottonwood Cove, we’d gotten married on her family’s property, overlooking the water. It was the place I’d first laid eyes on her.
Her mom was horrified by the lack of formality, but it was exactly what we’d both wanted. My family, her family, and a couple of friends, and we’d made it official. She’d worn a long white skirt and a pretty white top that fell off her shoulder, with her favorite cowboy boots. I’d worn a gray dress shirt that she and Gracie had picked out for me with my best dark jeans and boots. And Gracie wore a matching outfit to Presley’s because she wanted to look just like the bride, which was cute as hell.
Presley had had a tiny ring designed for Gracie, as a promise to be her mom from that moment on. Gracie had asked Presley in return if she could start calling her mama.
I wasn’t a guy who allowed himself to get weepy, but that day, man—seeing my girls love on one another like they had brought me to tears.
Of course, Finn and Hugh never stopped razzing me about it, even if I tried to say a bee had stung me in the eye.
And I didn’t even care.
It would go down as one of the best days of my life.
But today was June 23. The day I’d met Presley and the day my daughter was born. We’d thought about waiting to get married on the same day, but Presley felt strongly that we should keep today about Gracie. She didn’t want anything to take away from that.
So, we celebrated our secret anniversary this morning with my head buried between her beautiful fucking thighs as she cried out my name.
It was a perfect way to start my day.
And now… it was my little girl’s sixth birthday. It was my wife’s first time getting to celebrate it, so she’d gone batshit crazy and invited the whole damn town to our house. Everyone from Gracie’s class was there, along with Mrs. Clifton, who I hugged extra tight in thanks for the wholedon’t overthink everythingtalk, which she didn’t even know had been a game changer for me.
Gracie had wanted a rodeo theme, and Presley had transformed our yard into a full rodeo. There were arches with pink and white balloons and some sort of cow print everywhere you looked, a backdrop for photos, cowboy hats for everyone, and cups that readGracie’s Rodeo Partyon them.
It was a little over the top, but I wouldn’t change a thing.
The cake looked more like a wedding cake, with a sparkly cowboy hat sitting on the top tier, and my daughter held on to her mama’s hand as everyone sang to her.
These were the moments that knocked the air out of my lungs.
