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“We would love that Wouldn’t we, baby?” Noah asked Riley

She tipped her head up and looked at her dad “We’d like that very much” She pulled away and walked back to Noah’s side, and then he autorasp how her life had changed so irl, and now she was going home with a future husband, her place in the world, and a stepmother

She never would have i

Epilogue

“I’o back home,” Riley whined as Noah drove them over to a friend’s house

“Do you trust me?”

“Of course, I do But you don’t kno irls are,” Riley replied

“I know these girls, and they are all delightful I pro to like them, and they you”

Riley blew out a breath She wasn’t going to get him to take her home, so she decided to try the best she could

She’d dressed in her favorite pink dress, with her white bobby socks and black Mary Jane shoes Her hair was left down and curled, so it bounced with ever

y step Noah didn’t let her wear makeup except to play with, so she’d just put on her favorite bubble guloss

Riley’s eyes widened when they pulled up to Darian’s house “It’s a castle,” she exclaimed

Noah chuckled “I thought you ht like it It looks a little like the one in Beauty and the Beast, doesn’t it?”

“This is where that girl Larkin lives?”

“Yes, she and Darian have been married for a few years now You’ll have to ask her soreat story In fact, they all have stories they can tell abouteach other”