“Nothing would make me happier, or prouder, than marrying you, Dare,” Haven said.
Grinning bigger than Cora had ever seen before, Dare slipped a ring on Haven’s finger, then rose and took her in his arms. While the club clapped and cheered, their friends kissed and laughed and started a life together.
Just like the life Cora and Slider were starting. Just like the little life growing in Cora’s belly.
“Someday soon that’s gonna be us,” Slider whispered in her ear.
Cora smiled and wiped happy tears from her eyes. “Yes, it is, Mr. Evans. Yes, it is.” But Cora wasn’t in any rush.
For all the craziness, she’d only been together with Slider for less than three months, and they had the boys to consider. So she and Slider were focusing on settling in together, adjusting to having a new family member arrive soon, and helping Slider start a new business. Not to mention spending time as a family with the boys—and with Bosco the Lovable Basset. Whose nametag now read Bosco T.L.B. Campbell-Evans.
The rest? It would come when they were all ready.
In the meantime, Cora already knew where she belonged. And Slider already knew she was his forever. And they both knew love. So much love.
And in this life, what more was there?
They all brought out the desserts, and then Dare raised his glass one more time. “To brotherhood, club, family!” he called out, his arm around his new fiancée’s waist.
“To brotherhood, club, family,” they all cheered back, bringing to a close the best Thanksgiving Cora had ever celebrated.
But that was just a start to the celebrations that brightened her life these days.
Because Slider proposed at Christmastime, and baby Jackson Dare Evans was born in June, and Cora Campbell became Mrs. Slider Evans in September. And for the first time in her life, the girl who nobody wanted learned to believe in happily-ever-afters, and found hers, too . . .