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“Hell yeah, I do. So she’s fighting with me about everything under the sun to prove to me we shouldn’t get hitched.” He shook his head. “Why am I fucking talking to you about this?” Cowboy took out his phone and pressed a button.
“Who are you calling?” asked Logan.
“Shut up. I’m not talking to you anymore.” He held up his hand in Logan’s direction and spoke into the phone. “It’s time to stop pussyfooting around this and take the bull by the horns.” He paused. “Hey, it’s me. You won’t answer my calls, so I’ll do this one your way. You want to fight about something? Let’s fight about this. I want to marry you, Charlotte. I want to show the world how much I love you and change your name to mine. Take vows in a church and make that dickhead brother of yours be my goddamn best man just to make him suffer. So instead of bitching to other people about me, you call Gemma up and you tell her that. Or better yet, leave her out of this altogether and just say yes.” He exhaled fully. “I love you more than anyone in the world, and you can take that to the bank. Talk later.”
Mac chuckled and drank his lemonade. This was the good stuff, what life was all about. Loving a good woman and making a life together. Despite his mistakes, he knew that much was true.
Logan grinned at Cowboy. “You want me to be your best man?”
Cowboy whipped his empty lemonade bottle at him, hitting him in the arm when Logan twisted. “Idiot.”
Logan laughed and picked it up.
“You could help me, you know,” said Cowboy. “Going to take an act of God to make that woman marry me. I could use all the help I can get.”
“Let me think about it.”
Cowboy turned to Mac. “Assholes. I work with assholes.”
Mac shook his head. “This is the good stuff, Leo. You just don’t know it yet.” He gazed back over the yard, now pockmarked with holes, the smile falling from his face as he imagined what might lie beneath.
Maybe Ellie wasn’t here at all.
Maybe she was alive. Maybe she could forgive him for the things he’d done. Maybe there was still a space in her heart for the man she’d once loved. And maybe, just maybe, there would be good times in Mac’s future again.
He’d just have to wait and see what tomorrow would bring.
