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“Are you happy?”
“Yes.”
“Does the guy treat you well?”
“Ye-yes.”
“Good. All I want is for you to be happy and treated like a princess because you deserve it.”
I looked over Rhys’s handsome face while recalling how he treated me the whole time we were together. He put me on a pedestal and treated me exactly like a princess. He also used to call me that, along with “mia bella,” which meant “my beautiful.” Occasionally, he’d also say “ma’am” to me, purposely adding more twang to his Texas accent than he already had.
“Are you happy?” I asked him.
“Right this second, I am because of this.” He pointed back and forth at us. “But I don’t want our friendship to cause any problems between you and your fiancé.”
“It won’t.”
Rhys glanced up and grinned. “Rachel and Macie are looking out your bedroom window at us.”
“I’m not surprised.”
“This is like it used to be.”
“I know—them watching us, and also you throwing a pebble at my bedroom window to get me to come outside.”
“What can I say? I’m still old-fashioned.”
“Don’t ever change that about yourself.”
Rhys looked down at my lips and swallowed hard. “I better go now. I don’t want your girls mad at me for keeping you out here.”
“You’re the last person they’d get mad at for doing that. It is getting pretty late, though, and I imagine you’re tired.”
“I’m okay.”
“Before you leave, tell me how the B&Bs are doing.”
“They’re doing great! Booked all the time.”
“That’s fantastic.”
“I don’t know if you heard, but I bought the old Jefferson house on the lake six months ago and am fixing it up. When I’m done with it, it’ll be another B&B.”
“Rachel told me about you doing that.”
“I’ve been living in the house while making the improvements and have enjoyed being by the water.”
“It’s gorgeous out there. Have you seen any ghosts in your house or around the property?”
“No, but I have felt a presence. Things also get moved from where I know I put them.”
“You have a mischievous ghost on your hands,” I chuckled.
Rhys smiled and nodded. “Cypress Hills is like Ghost Central.”
“One of many things that I love about it.”
We kept looking at each other, then I stepped up to Rhys and hugged him. He wrapped his muscular arms around my waist, hugging me in return.
