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“And the kids? Are they in on this as well?”
“You know how much they like to be in on the secret,” Boone said, looking exceptionally nice in black dress pants and a powder-blue shirt.
Now that I got a good look at the guys, they were all dressed as if we were on our way to a special event, rather than just lunch. While I had changed out of my hiking clothes, they’d done the same, only I hadn’t noticed until this very moment.
“What kind of secret?” I asked, as they took their seats around me.
Kasey pulled out a small white ring box, and my breath caught in my throat. “What is this?”
“Pretend we’re all down on one knee,” Kasey began.
My eyes instantly watered.
“Liberty, ever since I met you, I knew you were different,” Austin began. “I love you so much.”
“You changed our lives,” Kasey said.
“You changed our kids’ lives, and God knows they needed a change,” Boone said.
I held my hands up to my face as the tears streamed down my cheeks and splashed onto my fingers.
“I love you, Liberty Gallagher. Will you marry me?” Kasey asked, as he held open the box. I could only glance at the ring with the monster black diamond. It was positively stunning.
“Will you marry me?” Austin asked.
“Will you marry me?” Boone asked. “I love you, darlin’.”
I stifled a sob and said, “Yes, Boone, Kasey, Austin. I will marry you. I love you so much. I can’t imagine my life without you or the kids.”
We all stood up then, and as they gathered around me, and Boone cried, we also laughed and hugged. It was truly the happiest moment of my life.
IT WAS ONE thing to play at Dirty Coyote in front of hundreds of people. It was quite another thing to play in front of four thousand inside a Vegas showroom.
“I don’t know if I can do this,” I told Austin as we waited backstage, while our band played our intro. Kasey and Boone stood next to me, shaking out their own nerves the best they knew how. “Buck can handle all my solo parts.”
We were all still a little high from our marriage commitment from earlier today, but now that our performance was imminent, all I could focus on was how I might fuck up. My nerves wouldn’t release me from their grip. Even though the afternoon had been amazing, and I knew that after the show, we would be doing a lot more celebrating in bed, I still couldn’t let my insecurities go.
A lot had changed since that day in the kitchen when Buck and I played our fiddles for everyone. For one thing, I’d moved into the main house with my own living quarters, that I shared with all three guys on most nights. The sex was epic, and the love I felt was sometimes overwhelming. I bawled as much as Boone, who seemed to cry for almost anything that was even remotely sentimental. We liked to tease him about it, but we also loved that about him.
We’d gotten into a nice day-to-day living arrangement, until Marcia convinced us to take this residential gig at Caesars Palace, here in Vegas. We’d been living here for the past month, getting everything ready for this very moment, and now that it was here, I was scared shitless.
My legs felt like mush, my heart raced, and my hands felt weak, as if I couldn’t even hold my bow, if I even remembered how to hold my bow.
“You’ve got this,” Kasey said. “Just breathe.”
“It’s always tough when your dreams come true,” Boone said, and I could already see the moisture in his eyes. He was like the lion in theWizard of Oz. On the outside, he was this fierce-looking man who could pull out a tree by its roots, but on the inside, he was all hearts and flowers.
I turned to him and wiped his tears away with my fingers. “Is this one of your dreams, Boone?”
“Yes. We never played Vegas before, and because of you, here we are,” he said, his eyes red with emotion. I stretched up, stood on my toes, and kissed his tears away. Then I crushed my lips to his mouth, and he kissed me back with that very special tongue of his. A rush of heat drenched my body, as he drew me in closer.
“I love you,” I told him, when we pulled apart.
“And I love you,” he whispered, under the sound of our music blasting us as we waited for our cue.
As I turned back around, to face the stage, still feeling apprehensive, an arm pulled me back, and at once, I knew it was Austin. I’d become totally in tune with the way they each touched me. Austin’s touch was always a bit aggressive. Not in a hurtful way, but more in a playful, you’re-my-woman way, and I loved it. He spun me around and planted a kiss on me that could melt flesh. I couldn’t help but fall into it, and when I did, I forgot all about my stage fright, releasing all my apprehensions.
“Do you feel better now, Ace?” he asked, still holding me tight against his body.
