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smaller diamonds. It was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen in her life.

She was absolutely speechless. Marriage? She hadn’t even really considered it. No, that was a lie. She had thought about it. Thought about it on any number of loud Saturday nights at the bar or lazy Sunday mornings in Gael’s bed. She’d thought about it more than she’d like.

“You’re proposing?”

“The ultimate cuff,” he said. “It’s three carats.” He nodded at the ring. “But, Mags McHenry, my life hasn’t been the same since I’ve met you. You’re the most caring, most loving, most giving woman I’ve ever met. You took a chance on me, and for that, I’ll forever be grateful. There’s no one else I’d rather spend the rest of my life with than you. You’re everything I could ever ask for in a partner. You were with me through the bad times with Ava and the good. You are the most loyal—and the most stubborn—woman I know. I want to spend this life and the next life with you. Please. Do me the honor of being my wife.”

“I... I don’t know what to say.” She was still stunned. Still not believing it.

“Say yes!” Ava cried, clapping her hands together.

“Yes. Say yes.” That voice. His voice. The one that never failed to flick a switch in her.

“Yes,” she said, blinking back tears. “Yes, yes, yes!”

Tears stung her eyes. Mags wanted nothing more than to be a part of the family Gael, Kathleen, Maeve and Ava had created. Hell, to one day even add to it with children of their own. She saw a future that she couldn’t wait to meet for the first time in her life. Being cuffed didn’t seem like a prison sentence at all. It seemed like something beautiful, something filled with hope and love.

“Put the ring on her finger already!” Ava cried from the phone.

Gael slid the ring on even as Ava cheered. “I helped pick out that ring, just so you know.”

Mags watched it as it sparkled brightly under the bright sun. It caught the light and threw it back out, sparkling as if it were on fire, as if it knew the passion burning in Mags’s heart.

“You did a great job,” Mags told Ava.

“Yes, you did, now scram,” Gael told his sister.

“Fine, fine. I’ll go. I know you want to make kissy faces.” Ava stuck out her tongue. “Congrats, you two crazy lovebirds.”

Then she ended the call, and the phone went dark.

“I hope you plan to do more than just a kissy face,” Mags said.

“Oh, I do. Damn well I do.” Then Gael pounced, rolling her down on the dock, his lips meeting hers, hungry but gentle, and the kiss held a promise of many, many more to come. Mags felt the very last brick of her wall crumble then, crumble to dust, as Gael deepened the kiss, as his hands roved her back and found the string of her bikini. She’d never felt freer than right then, with Gael’s mouth on hers and his hands on her body. She couldn’t wait to spend the rest of her life with him. She couldn’t wait to start.

Gael broke free of the kiss for a second, his eyes meeting hers. “Thank you for making me the luckiest man alive.”

“No, silly,” she said and shook her head as she traced his cheek with her finger. “You’re the one who’s made me the lucky one. You knocked down my damn wall.”

“You better believe I did. Now, what should I do next?”

“Tell me what you want.” She quirked her eyebrow in challenge.

“I want you to kiss me,” he said in that voice. That commanding, no-nonsense voice. God, she loved that voice. All she wanted to do was obey.

And kiss him, she did.

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