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It’s that easy to say, that word to his question. I’m spinning and I don’t care. I throw my arms around him and go to kiss him when his doorbell rings.
Hudson groans. “I’m having that removed. Wait here.”
I do. I even do a little dance while he’s gone. Maybe this is fast, but I don’t care. I want to be with him. I’ve never felt like this before and it feels utterly right. Like something clicked into place.
“Scarlett?”
I go still. He has a manilla padded envelope in one hand that’s open, and he holds something in the other. He shows me. On a piece of paper with writing is a ring. It’s utterly beautiful. A pink diamond.
“Is that…?”
“Yeah. My Sinclair jewel.” He drops the envelope and takes my hand. “And a note. I passed, apparently.”
I try to read the cursive script upside down but can’t. “That’s a lot of words for that.”
“It says to keep the family business that means something beyond money to the Sinclair brothers, each and every one of them will be given their own test, with four weeks, within a twelve-month period. If they don’t pass, they lose the Sinclair family business. Out of private and into public hands. It will be lost forever.”
I gasp. “But—”
“I’ll let my brothers know tomorrow,” he says, dropping the note and pulling me closer. He still has the ring in his hand, though. “But this is their problem now, not mine.”
“Hudson. We’re talking the family legacy, something that’s beyond important to you.”
“All my life, that was right, but not anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I want to keep it in the family, but you mean more to me.”
I’m trying to breathe, my heart almost bursting. “What do you mean?”
“I mean, my sweet Scarlett—” he slips the ring on my finger “—is I have something better to live for. You.”
“Stop it. You’ll make me cry.” I look at the ring, and it’s beautiful, almost as beautiful as him. It’s slightly loose, but I don’t care. I meet his gaze as I slide my hands up around his neck.
He kisses me, soft and loving and full of hope and the future. And then he says, against my mouth, “We can start our own legacy. One built from love. What do you say?”
“Yes.”
And when we kiss, it’s the beginning of our own legacy. This is no dark inheritance. It’s new. A bright, shining future full of love.
This is the end of Hudson and Scarlett's love story.
