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Surprised eyes caught mine “Really?”
I grinned to hide my nervousness “Really”
Entwining her fingers with ed her toward the door As alked into the dimly lit bar, I reached for the remote that controlled the speakers that were hooked up to a stereo in the office Soft, jazzy asp beside me I turned to watch her as she took the entire room in
She hadn’t seen the inside of the bar since we’d rebuilt it, so this was all new to her, but she wasn’t taking in the new bar tops or the tables and booths with the chairs thatbut the hundreds of balloons floating toward the ceiling, the hundreds of dollars’ worth of roses, and the crazy aaze went slowly toward the petals that shaped the huge heart that Gracie had helped me create and the pillows on top of the thick, soft blanket that was spread across sweet scented rose petals
Flick sed hard and lifted her blue gaze to meet mine “Who did this?”
I shrugged like it was no big deal “My brothers and Gracie helped me”
Her brorinkled adorably “But why?”
“Because I love you and you deserve the hearts-and-flowers roive you that the first tiive it to you as often as possible this time”
“I…I don’t knohat to say,” she whispered “This is beautiful, Jet Thank you” She wrapped her arms around my waist and buried her face in my cut “Thank you”
“So you like it?”
She nodded without lifting her head “I love it”
Relief practically hadas I wrapped my arms around her slender waist and kissed the top of her head Even in the dirown out, but she hadn’t tried to cover the roots up I hoped she wouldn’t The red was sexy as fuck, but her natural color hat I wanted to see on her I’d kind ofin the past and I’d obsessed over the pure beauty of it for years until I’d finally given in and taken what I wanted
I felt soh the T-shirt I had on underbecause I lost ht her chin between er and forced her to lift her head so I could see her face Tears poured down her beautiful cheeks “What’s wrong?”
She gaveI’m just a little overwhelmed is all”
“Is this too ain “Gracie helpedthan me If it’s too much I’ll fix it”