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“Oh, Rafael…”

He gave a ragged intake of breath “I know you can’t forgiveNoah from you like I did But I swear to you I will spend the rest of ain I can think of nothing but you I want you, love you, need you and I alill…”

Louisa stopped his words with a kiss When she pulled away, his handsome face was dazed with joy

“Louisa…”

“I love you,” she whispered tenderly “And I never stopped loving you”

Pulling her back into his strong arms, Rafael kissed her fiercely beneath the dark sky, beneath the stars that fell into the deepness of the sea, twinkling light into eternity

“We’re engaged!”

Six months later, Louisa looked up fro out her left hand with a shyly joyful smile

“Engaged?” Louisa exclaimed “To who?”

Katie grinned back at Rafael’s chief bodyguard “All the tiht I’d come back with a souvenir like this!”

“A husband is your idea of a souvenir?” Evan Jones said with a grin, then took Katie’s hand in his own and said earnestly, looking into her eyes, “This tio back to Florida without me”

Louisa leaped to her feet, clapping her hands “I’m so happy for you both”

All this time, she’d hoped her little sister would find true love…and now she had She looked out toward the surf, where Rafael was playing with his little niece, Madison, and his son, Noah, who at fourteenlike crazy all over the sand as fast as his chubby little legs would carry him “Does Rafael know yet?”

“Not yet,” Evan said with a rueful grin “We thought we’d better tell you first We s over You kno Mr Cruz hates staffing changes He’s not going to like getting a new chief bodyguard”