Page 100 of Operation K-9 Brothers
“Jack.”Darn him, he was going to make her cry.
“Hush.I’m not done yet.”He gave her his special smile, and if melting into a puddle was a possible thing, she’d be doing it again.“As hard as it was to wait to ask my question, I did because I wanted to make sure you saw that I could make something of myself, that I’m more than what I even thought I could be.That’s why you’re standing under the sign for my new future...Our new future.”
“Oh, Jack,” she whispered, falling to her knees in front of him.“I always knew you were more.”
“And you made me believe it.”He glanced to his right, where his two dogs sat.“Along with me, Dakota and Maggie May are asking you and Rambo to be a part of our lives forever.Will you marry me, Nichole?”
Rambo barked.
Jack winked at her.“He said yes.What do you say?”
Only because she’d spent months with him learning about dogs did she catch his subtle sign telling her dog to bark.“I think you cheated,” she said, laughing.
“I’ll do whatever it takes to make you mine, Nichole.”
“Only if you’re also mine, Jack Daniels.”
“I wouldn’t have it any other way, babe.”He slipped the ring on her finger and then kissed the daylights out of her.
“Finally, I’m going to get great-grandbabies,” Grammie said from behind them.
Nichole snorted a laugh against his mouth, and then couldn’t stop laughing.
“Not right this minute, Grammie,” Jack said between kisses as he laughed along with her.
“Who would have thought that one drunken phone call would lead to this?”She held up her hand, admiring the platinum square-cut diamond solitaire ring.
“Babe, you can drunk dial me anytime you feel like it.”
She smiled at the beautiful man who’d shown her how love could really be...how it should be.“I might just do that.”
