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“At least that is something. Those girls can go home now and start the healing process,” I say sadly.

“You saved them, Zoe. Everything you did today saved those women. Women who have been held against their will for years, some even their entire lives. Please know that I won’t stop until I have found the rest of the jewels for you,” Enrique tells me honestly.

I give him a solemn nod.

Someone calls out to Enrique, and he’s pulled away from us.

“I want to go home,” I tell Tomas and Mateo.

“Home looks a little different since you left,” Tomas says.

“I couldn’t stay in that house without you in it,” Mateo adds.

“Wherever the two of you are is home,” I tell them.

40

ZOE

ONE MONTH LATER

It’s been a month since I was saved.

A month of visits to a psychologist to help me come to terms with what has happened.

A month of nightmares, seeing Nikolai’s face as he slumps to the ground, dead.

A month in which no one has been able to trace the Bratva Jewels.

But it hasn’t been all bad news.

Last night Tomas and Mateo proposed to me. They had decorated the pool area with a thousand and one candles, and a beautiful bouquet of flowers sat in the middle of the table. Both of my men looked sharp, dressed in suits.

My heart was bursting with love looking at them.

“Take a seat, cariño,” Tomas had said, pulling out my chair.

“Would you like some champagne?” Mateo asked, pouring us each one.

“This is beautiful.”

“You deserve this and more, Zoe.” Tomas smiled at me, then leaned over and kissed me.

I turned to look at Mateo, and that was when I noticed he was kneeling. My head turned back to where Tomas was kneeling as well.

“Zoe, you complete us. You were the piece we didn’t realize we were missing until we met you,” Mateo had begun.

“When we lost you, it was the worst feeling in the world. Neither of us ever wants to feel that way again,” Tomas added.

“We knew we couldn’t live without you, Zoe.”

“We also know we want to grow old with you, we want a family with you. We want forever with you.”

My breath had hitched when Mateo produced a velvet ring box and opened it to show the most beautiful diamond ring sparkling in the flickering light.

“So, what do you say, would you be our wife?” Mateo asked.

“Yes, yes, yes!”

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