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“I do.”
“And fair warning, your dad knows too.”
My jaw drops.
“My dad? For real?”
“For real. Karlene gave me his number. And in case you’re wondering, he gave me his blessing. After quite a bit of explaining, I’ll have you know.”
“And your mother’s too,” he adds.
If my heart could melt any more for this man, it would.
“Nice people. I think I’ll like my in-laws.”
I hold up my hand, finally letting myself bask in the glow of what’s happened. In the glow of being withhim. “We are really engaged, Hayden.”
He kisses me again, and it feels perfectly right.
“Mrs. Tanner. I like the sound of it.”
“Mmmm, I don’t know,” I tease.
“Mrs. Flemming-Tanner?”
I shake my head. “Still not quite right.”
Hayden seems disappointed, but he nods. “It’s OK if you don’t want to take my name. Or do you want me to take yours? I can do that. Flemming is a fine name.”
“That’s an intriguing idea but, nah. I have a better idea.”
“I can only imagine.” He holds my hands. “Lay it on me.”
“Mrs. Sexy Eyes. That’s what I’d like to go by.”
“Done.”
His laugh fills the air of this place where our story started. A story that’s still at the very beginning.
Epilogue
Hayden
The Black and White Ball, one of the city’s most coveted events, isn’t something I’d been particularly excited to attend in the past. But tonight? One look at Ada in her dress, and I cursed the fact that we were attending with my parents. Their driver came for us so they could get to know Ada better. In facilitating the revelation that Henry was reporting back to my dad, not to spy on me but to ensure I was doing well, she’s worked miracles in our family already. And while she seems to have charmed them nearly as much as Henry, who adores my fiancée, there was a little . . . incident at the party, which made for a very uncomfortable ride home.
“Did you see his face?” Ada says as soon as we’re in the elevator of my, our, building.
I’m thinking of a lot of things now that we’re alone together. The senator’s face isn’t one of them. “I did. And told you we were going to get caught.”
Ada makes a strangling motion with her hands.
“Youtoldme? Oh my God, are you serious right now? Who told you like fifty times a storage room is not a very good place to fool around?”
“I thought it was a fine place,” I admit. “Until the drunken fool attempted to come into our closet.”
“Hardlyourcloset. What if it was one of your parents?”
We get out on our floor and head toward the door. I’m in such a hurry to get inside, I nearly fumble the keys. Finally, it swings open, and I pull her inside.
