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She gave
Boone a loving look. "Didn't want to take half because he's such a
gentleman."
    Boone gave her a quick kiss. "I still don't know how
she talked me into it."
    Gigi wagged her brows. "I have ways of making you do
what I want."
    "Damn fine ways, too." His voice grew low and his
arm slid across her shoulders.
    Both Kira and Stormie sighed, looked at each other, then
laughed.
    "Chicks." Jayden made a disgusted face.
    "Get used to it, brother." Boone's gaze didn't
stray from Gigi. "And learn to love it."
    Gigi made a little mewing sound and touched Boone's cheek.
    "So, it was perfect from then on?" Stormie's eyes
were wide. "You got engaged so fast."
    Boone shook his head. "No, not perfect. I screwed up
real bad."
    "My fault." Dallas's lips tightened into a thin
line.
    Dallas had sent some texts to Boone that Gigi intercepted.
She gave up on Boone, gave up on love, but Boone had found a way to make it
right. Thank God.
    "No." Boone looked at his friend. "My fault.”
    "It's all in the past." Gigi waved her hand as if
to erase it all. "Then, Boone took me home to his parents' ranch, he
showed me the land and the house he'd inherited from his grandfather." She
shrugged and smiled, her eyes bright with a sheen of moisture. "I spent a
couple weeks there with him, just the two of us in that big old house. I knew
that was where I wanted to be." She turned to her fiancé.
"Forever."
    "Forever." Boone lifted her left hand and kissed
her finger where the engagement ring's big diamond twinkled brightly.
    "Awww." Stormie looked a little weepy, too, and
Kira felt a lump of emotion in her own throat.
    "Tell her how you got engaged." Laughter filled
Jayden's voice.
     

Chapter Three
     
    "Oh my gosh." Kira covered her mouth with her hand
to hold in the sappy sigh. "It was so romantic."
    Across the booth from her and Dallas, Jayden and Stormie
looked at her, smiling, but snuggled together in the back of the booth, Gigi
and Boone only had grins for each other.
    Dallas ran his hand up and down Kira's bare arm and
goosebumps rose.
    Gigi set her hand on Boone's chest. "It was romantic. A
month after we met in Vegas, I flew to Maine to be with him at a rodeo. After
he took first place…" Her pride showed on her face. "The band
started, and he took me out on the packed dirt for a dance. I'd heard the song
before, but the band was throwing in all these references to how Boone and I
met. I froze."
    Boone laughed. "Thought she was gonna faint." He
told Stormie, "I know the guys in the band, and I asked the lead singer to
tweak the song for me."
    "That's so frickin' romantic." Stormie had
finished over half her margarita already.
    Kira should take her to the ladies' room and tell her to
slow down. Kira's aunt and uncle, Stormie's parents, would kill Kira if she let
her cousin get too wild. Kira was only two years older than Stormie's
twenty-two, but her cousin had grown up on a ranch, attended the local
agricultural college while living at home, and hadn't had the life experiences
Kira had.
    "Yeah, frickin' romantic." Jayden gestured to
Boone. "Tell her what you did then?"
    Kira would have sworn Boone blushed under his tan. He
grinned. "The band sang 'Boone has something to ask you, Gigi' and they
stopped playing."
    "The whole arena went silent." Gigi's voice
sounded awestruck.
    Boone held Gigi's hand and gazed into her eyes. "Then I
went down on one knee and mumbled something about needing her, and loving her,
and would she be my wife."
    Gigi looked at Stormie. "I can recite the exact
words." An emotionally choked laugh came from her lips. "Remind me to
tell you later, at the bachelorette party. But before I have too much to drink
and end up crying off all my makeup."
    "I will." Stormie looked as moved as Kira felt.
    "She said yes." Boone lifted Gigi's hand. "And
there was this huge cheer that shook the roof. The band broke into the wedding
march and I slipped the ring on her finger before she could change her mind. I
grabbed this beautiful