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“Maybe,” he said, his

aain “I don’t care what anyone says about us I don’t care how our family came to be All I know is that I can’t live without you or our son Would you doup the box, revealing a massive diamond in a platinum band “It was my mother’s, and her enerations Would you take it?”

“Yes!” she said, holding out her hand as A She er It was as if Fate, itself, was giving its blessing

He stood up then and kissed her, his tongue tangling with her own “I love you, Amanda”

“I love you too”

Epilogue

“I don’t think I’ll ever like yellow,” A his head at her

Ahed as they exited the newly reed in the two years since she’d almost died and said yes to the proposal of a lifetime Since then, the full extent of Senator Jackson’s corruption had co by a head of state testifying to Jackson’s cri his own teae in the United States had been dis to do its best to help take apart the regimes he’d funded in Central America Amanda had written a whole series on the scandal and had been rewarded not only a Pulitzer, but also an offer for her old job back and then some at the Sentinel She’d been happy to accept the award, but ery’s sadness, Amanda had refused the job

Moving to Abu Dhabi had see in her mother’s footsteps, but now she wanted to be different and forge her own path and be there for her son and her growing daughter Only a fewyet, but soon their fa as she didn’t kill Airl’s nursery

“Yellow is a perfect, sunny color,” she replied, as they passed Farana’s room

Their boy’s room was decorated in deep emerald walls and tons of posters of the Muppets He’d fallen in love with Sesame Street Their son was sixteenthe nannies and his grandetting into everything Amir liked to joke that he took after Ah coy and she didn’t expect their daughter to be anything less

Both of thee and leaned down one at a time to kiss his chubby cheeks

“Thank you,” Ael

“For what?”

“For everything”