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Marriage Love Children It seehed a little, even as tears gathered in her eyes and she waggled her fingers at him “Yes Yes, I’ll marry you”
He let out such a huge breath that she suddenly realized how nervous he’d been As he slipped the ring over her knuckle, she said, “Did you really think I’d say no?”
“I hoped you wouldn’t,” he adht”
She stood on tiptoe and wrapped her ar happiness back to this house”
She wiggled her finger, adet this? It’s really beautiful It must be a hundred years old!”
“Closer to a hundred and fifty,” he said “Remember the story about the pirate in our family?”
She nodded
“The story goes that this ring was part of his treasure during the Civil War, and that he gave it to an abolitionist worinned “Apparently she refor to becoround Railroad All I absolutely know is that ave it toit to you Maybe I’m no pirate, but I feel like you saved me anyway”
She looked up at hiot so lucky as to have hih her veranda
EPILOGUE
Abby reluctantly gave one last turn in front of thethe ivory silk of the dress It was time to take it off The waist and bust needed alterations to fit properly but she was in no doubt This dress, the one she’d first found in the trunk in the attic, was her wedding dress And in three short months she’d walk down the aisle of the church and say I do to Tom It seemed like an eternity away—and yet too short a ti that needed to be done
After the wedding they would start their life together here and begin filling the house with the love and laughter it finally deserved It was tiedy and make the lofty house on Blackberry Hill into a home
She was ad up her jeans when she heard a car co up the drive A quick check at thetold her it was Ian Martin, her lawyer She frowned All the business with the house was supposed to be over and done with She hoped there wasn’t any further problem
Ian tapped the new brass knocker on the door as she was going down the stairs She opened the door with a polite sot?”
He smiled “Not at all Just one last piece of business from your aunt’s estate”