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“Good. No more. I love you. I want a life with you. I don’t want to worry things are going to pop up like this. If you have a bad day or a headache, I want to take care of you and I don’t want you to be embarrassed over it.”

“Embarrassed like you doing a face plant the first time you wore heels out?”

“Kind of like that,” she said.

“I won’t be,” he said. “I’ll be honest with you. I’ll be honest with my parents too if it makes you feel better.”

“It would. They’d want to know. They should know. You can downplay it, but you can tell them you had it and it’s all good. I’m sure your mother will ask questions, but she only cares.”

“I know she does. Just like you.”

“Just like me,” she said. “I care because I love you.”

“I love you too, Megan.”

“Are we good now? Because I’m really hungry. Anger sucks, which is why I don’t do it often.”

“I’m good,” he said. “Better than I’d be if I kept it in.”

“We aren’t keeping it in anymore,” she said. “Agreed?”

“Agreed,” he said, kissing her one more time, then picking her up and bringing her to the kitchen so she could eat her pizza. “See, I can take care of you too.”

“I expect you to later tonight in bed,” she said, taking a large bite of her slice and winking at him.

Epilogue

Four Months Later

“I’m soglad you guys could make it to the party,” Carolyn Fierce said.

“Thank you for inviting us,” Megan said. She’d never been included in their Memorial Day party before, but now it seemed opened up to her. Maybe it had more to do with them wanting to have all the couples they’d had a hand in setting up?

“I wouldn’t have you be anywhere else,” Carolyn said, smirking. “Oh here comes Diane.”

“I’m so glad you two are here,” Diane said. “Your parents are coming too, right, Jonah?”

He grinned. “Yes. They are on the way.”

She thought it was odd Jami and John were included, but Diane and Carolyn had taken Raina in as family too so she supposed that made sense.

“I’ve got to go welcome some more people, but please, sit wherever, help yourself to food and drink. You know enough people.”

She did and moved close to Raina who was sitting with Ryder and Marissa, Sam, Dani and Bryce and Payton.

“They got you here,” Raina said to Jonah.

“It didn’t take much to twist his arm,” Megan said. “I brought it up and he jumped on it.”

She thought that was odd but figured things were going so well with them now. Jonah closed on a house that she helped him find two months ago. She’d been staying there more than normal. Or more than she had at his apartment.

Life just seemed to be going well and she’d never been happier about it.

“I’m not sure I jumped on it,” Jonah said dryly.

“I’ve learned that women always twist it the way they hear it,” Sam said, then dodged his wife’s hand.

“Where are the twins?” she asked of Sam and Dani’s sons.

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