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MacKay swallowed. He gripped me a little tighter. “So you love me, huh?”
Slowly, I nodded again. “I do. I had a big speech planned but you beat me to the punch. You’re good at that.” I smiled, and he grinned. He knew I was referencing that night in my apartment in Wanted. Somehow my grand gesture of a blowjob had resulted in him making me come first.
He nuzzled my ear. “You can give me your speech later. Let’s go get a hotel downtown.”
“Yes, please.”
He set me down on the floor and I reached up and wrapped my arms around his neck. “Actually, I’d rather go back to Wanted. Stay at my place or rent a cabin in the woods. I’m kind of a country girl, you know.”
There was no fighting my true nature.
There was no fighting the fate of a Young.
I’d been in love with MacKay since I was thirteen years old and it looked like it had stuck.
“I’ll take you wherever you want, baby.”
Could anything sound sexier? Nope. Nothing. My heart swelled and I was about to kiss him in a manner not appropriate for witnesses when my brother spoke and reminded me that MacKay and I weren’t alone.
“You should have called our father like I told you to,” Cash said, but he was grinning. He had his arm slung around Ava, who was also smiling. Johnny looked confused, which was his usual expression.
“What?” I asked my brother. “What are you talking about?”
“I warned MacKay he should ask Dad’s permission first.”
“That wasn’t an official proposal,” I said. I turned to MacKay. “Was it?”
“I can do better,” he assured me. “I should at least have chocolate chip cookies. At the very least.”
I laughed. “They’re a happy accident.”
“Like us.”
But that made my laughter die out and I shook my head. “No. We are no accident. We were meant to be.”
MacKay cupped my cheeks and brushed his lips over mine. “God, I’m so glad you took that catering job.”
With a laugh, I gripped the front of his shirt. “Thanks for rescuing me.”
“My pleasure.”
Epilogue
ONE YEAR LATER
MacKay
There wasnothing to fill a man with love for his woman than seeing her cooing over a newborn baby, even if it wasn’t hers.
“Dolly, you’re just the sweetest little girl I’ve ever seen,” Faith said, rocking her niece in her arms back and forth and repeatedly giving her kisses on her tiny forehead.
I shook Cash’s hand as he came into the family room carrying his son Nelson on his hip. “Congratulations, man. She’s beautiful.” I ruffled Nelson’s hair. “Hey, big guy.”
Nelson had just turned one not too far back and Sera had just given birth to another baby, little Dolly. They were sticking with the Young country music tradition pretty firmly.
“Thanks,” Cash said, beaming with pride over his family. “Sera says no more.”
“I said that after Nelson,” Sera said wryly, curled up on the couch and looking tired, but glowing.
