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Crazy, but possible.

In that moment, I threw common sense out the window.

“Yes, West.Yes to all of it.If you really mean it. Yes.”

He laughed, then he roared with laughter, holding me tight as the shower water rained down on us.

“My friends are going to think I’m fucking crazy, too,” he rumbled before hugging me so tight I felt I could hardly breathe.

Was this the beginning of a love story to last all of time? You better fucking believe it.

West Williams had turned my head and caught my heart, and he was never going to give it back.

I was his.

Heart, body, and soul.

Might as well make it official.

Epilogue

West

Five years later.

Chris sat down next to me and popped a brew.

He and Susan still visited us every year here on Red Oak Mountain.

“The kids are getting big,” he said as he eyed my horde running by.

“Yup. It’s crazy how time just keeps moving along.”

Mia had gifted me with three perfect boys.

We were still hoping for a girl, but if we got another boy next time, that would be just fine, too.

Mia had decided four babies would be her maximum. I was just happy she’d wanted as many as that.

I watched her swimming in the lake with Susan, Kaitlyn, and Becky.

Mia had taken my heart the second I saw her, and she’d never given it back to this day. It belonged one thousand percent to that woman.

We’d run off to the courthouse and married each other that very first day after the big rainstorm. Everyone had thought we were nuts at first, but over time they’d seen how solid we were and they’d come around to the idea that maybe love at first sight really did exist for some people.

She’d arranged to do her marketing job remotely until the company folded up shop, then she’d taken a remote graphic design position with a creative firm. She was still doing it five years later.

And me? I still fished for a living. But sometimes I joined up with my buddy Charlie, giving out lake excursions to the tourists.

I took another sip of my beer right as Leland Harrison rounded the corner with his two brothers, Winslow and Nash.

That meant it was time to kick into high gear.

I hollered out, “Hon! It’s time! Can you come up and watch the boys?”

Her pretty head swiveled around in the lake. She saw the Harrison men here, too, and instantly started swimming for the ladder attached to the dock.

All of us men were putting up an addition on the cabin today. We’d run out of bedrooms and poor Mia had been working from a desk in the living room.

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