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He didn’t try to hide his entirely too satisfied smile, then.

“Are you sure? I thought I told you about the dangers of faking, Michaela. I can tell. I can also tell when you’re not faking, which by my count comes to—”

She smacked him on the chest. “Idiot. That’s not what I meant.”

He felt his heart in his chest, ten sizes too big. He thought of those little girls who were his sisters now, whom he might have continued to ignore were it not for this woman
and the impetus she’d given him to face off with his past at last. He thought of the work they each did and how easy it had been to slip into work mode that snow day in the motel. How lucky he was to have found someone who could understand, at last, that kind of focus and drive—and who had her own, in spades.

He thought about all the thousands of ways this woman had been made for him, how she
fit him, and he tightened his arms around her and rolled them over, coming up above her and letting her cradle him again.

It was never going to be enough. He was never going to get enough of this woman.

“I told you in the saloon,” he said, gazing down at her. “This story is going to have a very happy ending.”

And Michaela smiled up at him, her bright eyes alight and her arms around his neck.

“I’m sure it will,” she told him. “I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life. But first—” and she let her smile widen, let it take over the world “—you owe me that date.”

The End

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Megan Crane
writes women’s fiction, chick lit, work-for-hire YA, and a lot of Harlequin Presents as Caitlin Crews. She also teaches creative writing classes both online at mediabistro.com and at UCLA Extension’s prestigious Writers’ Program, where she finally utilizes the MA and PhD in English Literature she received from the University of York in York, England. She
currently lives in California, with her animator/comic-book artist husband and their menagerie of ridiculous animals.

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