Maybe it was the lighting, but he could have sworn it looked as if her eyes were shining.
“Guess,” she breathed.
“I might need a hint to do that,” he told her, keeping a straight face.
“All right,” she agreed gamely, suddenly feeling that everything was going to work out just as she had hoped. “One hint coming up,” she declared, wrapping her arms around his neck as she stood up on her toes and brought her mouth up to his.
She sank into the kiss, feeling herself quickly catching on fire. Krys put her entire soul into it, kissing him for all she was worth.
And then she drew her head back. “Well?” she asked, waiting for his reaction.
“Sorry,” he told her after a prolonged minute, “I’m afraid that I’m going to need more of a hint than that.”
Krys’s smile filtered into her eyes. “You do drive a hard bargain.”
“Giving up?” he asked innocently.
“Oh no, not by a long shot,” she promised. “Brace yourself, Cavanaugh. The hinting has just begun—” she promised “—if you’re up to it.”
“Oh, I’m up to it all right,” he assured her. “I’ve been waiting to be ‘up to it’ for what feels like my entire life.”
“Well, then, I’m happy to tell you that your wish has just come true,” she informed Morgan with a delighted laugh.
“You talk too much, Kowalski,” he told her, tightening his arms around her as he drew her even closer to him.
Krys raised her chin, her invitation very clear. “Then why don’t you go ahead and make me stop?” she challenged him.
“Gladly,” he said, his mouth covering hers.
And then there was no more talking after that for a very long, long time.
Epilogue
“You know, I don’t remember the last time I ever saw Krys looking this happy,” Nik confided to her husband as the church where they had gotten married six months ago was now filling up with family and friends, gathering there to witness yet another Cavanaugh wedding take place.
“And I didn’t realize that when you told me you had an identical twin, she was this identical.” Finn laughed, shaking his head. “Looking at the two of you is like really seeing double.”
“Well, when we stand next to each other, I’m an inch taller,” Nik reminded him.
“That really doesn’t help if you’re standing in different parts of the room,” Finn pointed out.
Nik grinned. “All you need to remember is that Krys is the one in the wedding dress, marrying your cousin,” she said. “And you’re married to me.”
Finn laughed. “Like I could forget the greatest thing that ever happened to me.”
Andrew’s wife, Rose, came out from the rear of the church. Seeing Nik, she hurried over to the younger woman, her light gray dress rustling as she moved.
“Your sister’s looking for you, Nikki,” she said. “The ceremony’s about to begin, so I’d move fast if I were you.”
Nik nodded, knowing how important it was to Krys to have her there for this. She had really missed her twin at her own wedding, but she knew that it couldn’t have been helped. She had always known that Krys was nothing if not loyal to a fault.
“On my way,” Nik told Rose, hurrying to get to the vestibule before Krys began to think that she had been abandoned.
“I’m here, Krys,” she announced, making her way into the tiny room. Seeing her twin, Nik nodded in approval. “That’s a nice look on you.”
Krys glanced down at the form-fitting full-length gown. “It’s the wedding dress. It would make anyone look good.”
“The dress is really very pretty,” Nik agreed. “But I was referring to the smile on your face. It makes you look radiant.”
Krys laughed with pleasure. “That is all Morgan’s doing. Oh Nik, I’ve never been so happy,” she said with enthusiasm.
“I can tell,” Nik said. And then she cocked her head, listening. “I think that’s our cue, Krys. Time to get this show on the road.” She paused just for a moment to give her sister a heartfelt big hug. “Prepare to be even happier,” she predicted.
“I’m not sure I can do that without exploding,” Krys confessed.
Nik winked at her. “Try.”
Clutching her flowers in her hand and trying to calm down the wild, fluttering butterflies in her stomach, Krys left the shelter of the vestibule.
Preceded by her five bridesmaids, all either Morgan’s sisters or cousins except for Nik, her matron of honor, she focused on making her way down the aisle and to the altar. She really hoped she could do it without tripping on the edge of her satin-and-lace bridal gown.
Krys stopped thinking about tripping the moment she saw Morgan standing next to his best man, waiting for her at the altar.
“I was afraid you got wind of another story you just had to pursue,” Morgan whispered to her when she reached him.
Krys shook her head. “This is the story I’ve been waiting to pursue my whole life,” she told him. “There was no way in the world I was going to wind up missing it.”
“I’m really glad to hear that you feel that way,” he said, smiling at her. “Because I do too.”
And then, as they turned together in unison to take their vows and pledge their undying, everlasting love to one another, Krys felt that, after all this time, she had finally managed to come home.
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Chapter 1
The rain had cleared out overnight, leaving the April morning damp and cool. Water dripped off trees and trickled through the stable downspouts. Birds chirped and sunlight painted the horizon a stunning orange and pink. Skylar Chelsey’s cowgirl boots crunched
