“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.”

just getting me back for my

I am not obsessed with revenge. I am merely

a chance to keep me

He shrugged. “Maybe.”

She launched herself at

the box before accepting her weight as he wrapped his arms around

the top of the courthouse steps. He tugged at the neck on the white dress shirt he wore with the ring in his

wall and watched him with a

at his closest friend. “You just wait. Come Sunday at the front of the church, you won’t be so

of myself pacing all over the sanctuary,

“I’m expending excess energy.”

what do you call looking at your watch every thirty

were supposed to be here five

Piper isn’t going to

wouldn’t even let me text her last night.” She’d said she wanted to observe the full tradition and he had

He was an idiot.

his eyes. “Man,

refused to answer that silliness. “What I have

“And a bride arriving.”

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

steps to open the door before

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