Page 99 of Virgin's Stolen Nights with the Boss

‘Justlook!’

She turned it around and there, dancing on the label, was hermamá. But on the other side was Carmen, in a print out of a photo taken just now on the dance floor, her white dress swirling, utterly happy and free...

Maria might not like sharing the spotlight, but in Carmen’s eyes they were finally dancing together...

‘I love it!’ Carmen smiled and clapped her hands.

‘Me too,’ Emily said and then gazed at the dreamy view. ‘It’s so beautiful here.’

‘It is,’ Carmen agreed. ‘Though, I can’t wait to show Elias around Jerez, I think we will be spending a lot of time there—especially for the horse festival.’ She looked over to Anna. ‘How’s the new home?’

Sebastián and Anna had taken over the hacienda, and it was perfect for their little family. Willow was delighted by her life and being spoilt rotten by Carmen’s, oh, so strict brother...

Carmen’s niece had a wonderful new adoptive father. Yet as a brother he was still protective, and still looking out for Carmen.

‘Why,’ he asked, ‘is your new husband on his phone on his wedding day?’

Carmen looked over and saw a flash of concern cross Elias’s features. She knew the only reason he’d be gazing at his phone today.

Handing Josefa back to Emily, she went over. ‘Capricorn?’ she checked, and looked at the video. The mare was pacing the stable—and not in the way she did when she was tired...

‘I’ll let Blake know,’ Elias said, but Blake was enjoying the party, and anyway Carmen was already walking towards the stables.

‘This isnothow you’re supposed to be spending your wedding day!’ Elias said as they entered the stable...

‘It’s the perfect way,’ Carmen said, holding Capricorn’s neck and soothing her. ‘We’re here, darling...’

‘She’s close,’ Elias said. ‘Where’s the vet?’

‘Up to no good with one of the grooms, I should think!’

‘Carmen?’ He looked over at her. ‘Do you have something to tell me?’

‘Yes.’

‘And...?’

‘I told Seraphina to go and take a babymoon.’

‘What?’

‘She called to congratulate us and ask for the wedding date and I suggested she book something right away and tell her husband how much she needed a break.’

‘You said that?’

‘Oh, yes.’ Carmen nodded. ‘I didn’t want her here today. I wasn’t having her ruining this for a second.’

They watched as Capricorn began labouring and pushing, until a tiny grey foal slipped out. What a privilege it was to watch Capricorn nudge her foal and see two shaky little front legs pushing up, the back legs unfolding into a stand...

‘He’s tiny!’

‘Not for long,’ Elias said. ‘Dom’s going to have his work cut out in a couple of years.’

He looked at his wife who was smiling and crying and totally happy to get messy on her wedding day.

‘What do we call him?’

‘Taurus,’ Elias said. ‘You had me at Taurus too.’ Carmen smiled when she thought back to that day on the pier and understood he had fallen in love then too. ‘I decided that before I even proposed.’

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