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“I believed I was cursed, and you helped me see it was only my fear getting in the way of my happiness. Thank you for allowing me to believe in good again.”

Her chocolaty eyes were brimming with tears, seemingly at direct odds with her luminous smile. “I love you.”

He grinned. “I love you, too, Soleil Dalliance Stephens.”

“I have a confession.”

But he already knew what she intended to say.

“I’m not a dalliance sort of girl,” she blurted.

Lifting her left hand, he dropped a kiss on her engagement ring. “I know.”

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