“Then perhaps this is the ideal moment to do this.”

“This?”

But he was leaning over the side of the oversized tub, reaching for something, and did not answer. When he straightened, there was a dark blue ring box with a white satin bow around it in his hand. There was no mistaking the signature look. He’d been shopping at Tiffany.

“Zephyr?” she asked in a voice that would not come out above a whisper in her suddenly dry throat.

He looked directly into her eyes, his espresso gaze both serious and warm. “Piper Madison, would you do me the honor of becoming my wife?”

He went blurry as happy tears filled her eyes and made her vision watery. “You know I will.”

He took a gorgeous diamond-and-platinum engagement ring from the box and slid it onto her finger. “Every woman deserves a proposal before marrying.”

“Thank you,” she said in a choked voice.

“I knew you were going to go gooey on me.”

She laughed. “That’s me. Gooey.”

“And incredibly sweet.”

She swiped the water from her eyes. “I do love you.”

“Wait until you see what I had done to the wedding rings.” She grabbed for the box but he held it above his head. “No, no, no…not until the ceremony.”

getting me back

said I am not obsessed with revenge.

a chance to keep

He shrugged. “Maybe.”

launched herself

tossed the box before accepting her weight

courthouse steps. He tugged at the neck on the white dress shirt he wore with

the wall and

at his closest friend. “You just wait. Come Sunday at the front

of myself pacing all over the

“I’m expending excess energy.”

do you call looking at your watch every thirty seconds? Checking the

to be

you seriously worried Piper isn’t going

She’d said she wanted to observe the full tradition and he

He was an idiot.

“Man, you have

I have is six minutes past the hour

“And a bride arriving.”

and sure enough, the limo was pulling up in front of the courthouse. An unreasonable amount of relief washed over him for the amount of time she was actually late, but she had left him once, if only for a week. And Zephyr knew better than most how easy it was to leave behind

the steps to open the door before the driver got around the car to

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