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The morning sun peeks through the curtains, and I sneak out of bed and make my way downstairs in desperate need of a coffee. I walk into my kitchen and there’s a huge bunch of red roses in a vase.

What in the world? Wasn’t last night enough?

“My god.” I open the card.

For the love of my life

For all of my life.

Gabriel.

I read it and smile as my heart literally flutters in my chest.

Could he be any more romantic?

“Mr. Ferrara, you are nothing like I imagined, but everything I had hoped for,” I whisper dreamily to myself.

“Really?” Big hands snake around me from behind, and I feel him smile into my neck as he kisses me. “You are everything I imagined and even more than I dared to wish for.” He turns me to face him and he looks down at me all serious. “I didn’t give you your engagement bonus yet, Miss Porter.”

I smile as he takes me back to where it all began.

I love this man.

“I thought you only gave bonuses in the office, sir.”

He lifts and sits me on the kitchen table and pushes me back across it. “For you, I’ll make an exception.”

THE END.

Thank you so, so much for reading.

I adored writing this book.

Love always,

Tee xo

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I flick my pen as I stare down at the essay I’m trying to write. What’s another word for catastrophe? Umm, problem, mishap, disaster…. I frown as I try to concentrate.

English, my mortal enemy.

My mom walks up the hallway and then turns around and walks back, she’s in her pink dressing gown and has been pacing back and forth for over an hour now.

I glance at my watch, 9 p.m.….

Where is he?

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