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What did he just say?

“We can give this child the type of home and family you and I both wanted,” he said. “You’ll get the help you need, and I’ll get to be a dad.”

She always acted on impulse, followed her hunches. Every one of those usual prompts urged her now to accept Cole’s offer.

It wasn’t the hearts-and-flowers-and-violins proposal she’d imagined, but she was a mother now. And if she was honest, Cole ticked every item on the list of attributes she’d want for her child’s father. He was stable, dependable, practical. So…

“Yes.”

He went still. Yes?”

“Yes,” she repeated.

“Great! We’ll make this work, Stevie. I promise.” He turned to go, then stopped.

“That was a lousy way to conclude a proposal, wasn’t it?” he asked. “I can do better.” Then he gathered her into his arms and gave her a kiss.

How could she have known the quiet analyst next door kissed like a dashing pirate?

And that she was nearly leveled by, of all men, her neighbor, friend…and soon-to-be convenient husband?

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PROPOSALS & PROMISES: Putting a ring on it is only the beginning!