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"I don’t have time to give you details now. I have to go."

"Are you going to break it to the family?"

"Later. Right now, I need to go get my girl. She's got some weird ideas in her mind, and I want to convince her otherwise."

"Good for you." He looked at me expectantly. "Right, okay. I'll hear the details later from Natalie herself, or probably from Grandmother. Those two are tight."

"Yes, they are." It was one of the things I loved most about Natalie: how thoroughly she'd embraced my family, even the extended one.

"Isn't she at work now? I mean, you might have changed your work ethic, but I don't think Natalie has," Cade said, walking next to me as we left the suite and headed to the elevator.

"She was, but I asked Maddox to do me a favor."

“You apologized to him?”

I nodded.

“It's good to see you acknowledging that our half brothers are also part of the family.”

"I know it took me long enough," I said.

"All right, then. Good luck," he said as we stepped out of the elevator. I turned right in front of the building, taking out my phone and messaging Maddox.

Jake: Everything went as planned?

Maddox: Yeah. I was just about to write you. Good luck, brother.

I stared at the word, feeling completely comfortable writing back,Thanks, brother.

He was a genius. I told him I needed Natalie at our ice cream shop, and he immediately came up with an idea. He said he'd simply ask her to get a huge box for his team. They didn't do any delivery service, so she would have to go there in person.

I was so excited on the drive there that I couldn't even hear my own thoughts thumping in my ears. This was happening. Natalie was mine. She had to know that no matter what, nothing would come between us ever again.

Chapter Thirty-Three

Jake

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