Page 18 of Her Three Rangers

All three men laughed, and even Jenny was smiling from ear to ear. Was she in on this, too? She had acted just as surprised and confused as I was in the parking lot, but maybe she was just playing it up.

“Okay, okay,” Ty said, holding his hands up in a mock surrender. “We don’t want to keep you in too much suspense.”

“Just a little suspense,” Cody said, throwing me a quick wink and making sure those butterflies kept going strong.

I had to admit that even though they were all three so different in looks and personalities, there was something uniquely attractive about each of them. They were all hot, to be sure, but in different ways.

Jaeger was probably the most conventionally handsome, in a bad boy sort of way. Ty had those gorgeous, intense eyes. And Cody’s quiet, sweet personality never failed to make me smile.

Then, of course, they were all tanned and toned and muscled. All of those years they spent as Rangers had clearly kept them in top shape.

“So, what we were thinking…” Ty paused, drawing out the moment with a grin. “Was that since you’ve gone way above and beyond for the three of us—and especially for Rambo—we wanted to do something for you as well.”

“I’ve only done my job,” I said, smiling. “That’s really sweet of you, though—all of you. But you really don’t have to do—”

“Yes, we do,” Ty interrupted.

“And we want to,” Cody added.

“We want to build you a kennel, Grace.” Jaeger said, then glanced over at Jenny and back again. “We heard you had been planning for one.”

For a few seconds, nobody spoke. Everyone was looking at me, and the room was completely quiet.

“Are you being serious right now?” I asked, finally breaking the silence. “A kennel? For me—for my clinic?” I looked over at Jenny. “Did you tell them about the kennel?”

“I just sort of mentioned that you had planned on building one, but…”

“But now we’re going to build one for you,” Ty finished.

“I went out today to make sure we could get the things we’d need,” Cody said. “And as far as I can tell, we’ll be ready to start as soon as you give the go-ahead.”

Looking around the room, I was completely shocked and overwhelmed.

Grateful.

Happy.

I couldn’t believe Jenny had told them about my kennel issue, but I couldn’t even pretend to be annoyed about it. I already knew that however it had come up in conversation, it had come from a place of love. She was amazing, not just as an assistant, but as a friend.

And the guys?

I didn’t even have the words to describe how wonderful they were, or how I wanted to take each one of them into my arms right at that moment.

“There’s no way I can let you just do that for me, though,” I said, finally snapping out of the happiness-induced daze I’d been in for the past couple of minutes. “Do you realize how much work that’s going to be? Not to mention how much it’s going to cost?”

“You don’t have to worry about that stuff,” Ty said, shrugging it off. “We want to do this.”

“And it’s a gift,” Cody said. “So, you don’t have to worry about how much it costs or how much work it’s going to be.”

They were all so, so sweet to make an offer like that, but I couldn’t possibly accept. This was way more than some token gesture of affection. The kind of kennel I’d need.

“No…” I shook my head. “I can’t let you guys take on a project like that. Not for free. It just wouldn’t be right.”

“You can repay us with dinner if you really want to,” Jaeger said, that cocky half-grin that I’d seen on his first day here reappearing. “I don’t think any of us would object to that.”

“Sounds like a fair trade to me,” Cody nodded. “Ty?”

We all looked over to Ty, who was standing with his arms crossed, an amused look on his face. His stare was still as intense as ever, though, and the way he waited several long seconds before he spoke—just looking at me, watching me—made me feel like he might be the only one in the room who could really see me.

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