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He motioned to the door like we’d go back outside, and he said, “I’d never lie. Honestly, I never thought I’d see you again. Every woman I've met since was judged based on you.”
We headed out arm-in-arm as I asked, “Really?”
His head pressed against mine as he said, “Yes, kind brown eyes became my most important marker.”
We'd only exchanged a dozen words in the two-day wedding and one dance. I hadn’t even dreamed he’d been affected like I’d been. The thump in my heart was real. “I… never met a guy I was half as attracted to as you. I thought of dating as going through the motions.”
He held the door open for me and our guests clapped for us. So we waited until we took our seats and he then said in a whisper, “If I’d have kissed you or asked more details about you, I could have been persuaded to forget joining the SEALs entirely. It’s why I didn’t talk much.”
I tilted my knees and body closer to him. “I thought you weren’t interested.”
He placed his hand on my back as a waiter poured us champagne. Once we were alone, I said, “I didn’t think you’d be available when I came home. I assumed I’d lost out on the best.”
I cupped his face and the slight stubble only made me wish we were alone right now. “Glad we were both wrong.”
He kissed my wrist. “And now we are starting a life together, but I wanted you to know even at that wedding, I knew you were the one.”
I shook my head. “Carter, just kiss me and don’t stop, ever.”
“With pleasure,” He said and he did.
I was once told to judge how a man feels from his kiss. If that was true, then I knew we were destined for happiness forever. Carter made my toes curl, every damned time.
I’d never loved anybody else.
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Chapter 19
Carter
One Year Later…
I’d never thought I’d ever be happy in life. Then Chelsea and Ridley catapulted into my life, pulling me away from Henry’s training and toward living my own life again.
Now I was here at Henry’s first race against other horses and I was heading back to my booth. My team has assured me Henry was in top shape. I didn’t care if he ever won a race or became a champion, to be honest, but his training to be here meant the spirit to live outshone the abuse he’d suffered.
But as I opened the door to my private booth at the field, I realized that, like my horse, I wasn’t alone anymore either. I was happy and in love, and hopefully, my animal was, too.
As I joined my family, I saw my wife held our infant son and Chelsea sat between her and a boy her age she’d invited to join us.
I pressed my hand to my heart and scooted beside Ridley. “You didn’t have to come.”
Ridley rocked our son and I couldn’t tear my gaze away as she said, “Gio wanted to be here when Henry won his race.”
Our boy was only two months old. I hadn’t expected either of them to come to Henry’s debut on the circuit. I went and scooped the infant out of Ridley’s hand and burped Gio as I asked over Ridley’s shoulders to our other girl, “Chelsea, how was your test?”
“Got an A,” She said, but then she glanced at Ridley and then back to the boy beside her.
Gio passed out in my arms and Ridley gently put him in his bassinet. As she finished, she said, “So I made a small bet?”
Chelsea called back, “And she let me get a ticket, too.”
